Qball's Weblog

General

Samsung Chromebook 303C12

Looking for a cheap laptop for traveling, the cheapest one below 1.5kg I quickly found ...

September 06, 2013

Fuzzy window switcher

Today there was this post on http://webupd8.org/ about a fuzzy window switcher forubunt...

July 19, 2013

All work and no play makes my nexus run ubuntu 13.04

I spend most week in Germany for work, so when I got back I needed to unwind.So I insta...

June 29, 2013

New PC

More then 5 years ago I upgraded my PC, to last 5 years. It was not a full upgrade, jus...

June 23, 2013

New blogging software

Because of the growing problems with wordpress exploits, spam on the comments and that ...

June 15, 2013

Update

I have been very lacking in blogging lately, so here comes a quick summary:GMPC The bi...

May 11, 2013

AVRDRAGON pin layout

I recently got an avrdragon for a small project.They thought it was a good idea to put ...

April 28, 2013

Notes.txt

In the past 1 1/2 week I have been testing Notes.txt a lot and made a lot of small impr...

April 07, 2013

Notes.txt

notes.txt is a simple command-line note managing application. ...

March 28, 2013

Tiny I3 patch

I wrote a tiny i3 patch that adds a small separator line between the i3bar and the work...

March 24, 2013

A Panda been taken down by a Raspberry…

You have no idea how strongly I hate saying this, but raspberry pi is currently better ...

March 17, 2013

06 Feb. 2013

Beside the fact it was an amazingly busy day at work I managed to get the following thi...

February 06, 2013

Sunday 20 Jan. 2013

Because I have done a lot of little things, I will combine it into one post:GMPCFixed a...

January 20, 2013

GTK3 theming

Hanging around in #gtk for a few days, it seems  theming is no longer supported in gtk....

January 16, 2013

GMPC Gtk+-3.0 update

An image says more then 1000 words (or something like that): GMPC Gtk+-3.0 Alot s...

January 13, 2013

Domotica box v2.1

Don’t ask me how, but I managed to break the usb break out board of my RFID receiver. (...

January 01, 2013

Domotica box V2.

My domotica box used to be in a crappy blue plastic box, but that box took a lot of spa...

December 29, 2012

Sync’able offline ToDo list.

I have been looking for a (very) long time now for a good todo list, I even wrote my ow...

October 28, 2012

Pandaboard KaKu control kernel module

I wrote a small kernel module today.It implements the sending part of http://randysimon...

October 01, 2012

SSHFS script.

A small script to easily mount remote hosts.Now you can do: ?View Code BASH ...

September 27, 2012

Intel based laptop and the horror of multiple screens

My work laptop is a Dell Latitude E6410. Beside the fact that the audio output is possi...

September 12, 2012

Turbo Flame Lighter

I got a turbo flame lighter a few years back:Recently it started to get problems, the i...

August 29, 2012

Data logging a while later

After my previous post, 11 days (or so ago) this is the latest plot. It still generates...

August 29, 2012

Commandline Logging of data.

Given the high temperatures here currently and the fact I have been playing with DS18s2...

August 19, 2012

Commandline Logging of data: the plotting

If you want to plot something under linux from the commandline,  gnuplot is almost alwa...

August 19, 2012

IfThenElse, Pandaboard and high temperatures.

With the currently high temperatures (30 degrees Celsius outside) my pandaboard in a bo...

July 27, 2012

Hard to beat an original

I didn’t know this one. Heard it today (out of curiosity I started looking for the orig...

June 10, 2012

An experiment of futility: 3h 50 minutes

Because of a crash in vala and a holiday. The project been at a small standstill.Vala c...

June 07, 2012

Northern Ireland

Images says all:

May 28, 2012

Little GEM

A lot of people do not know this one, but xxd is one of those tiny, incredible useful, ...

May 24, 2012

An experiment of futility: 3h 20 minutes

Did not make that much progress today, but still something done: Energy Bar: needs som...

May 24, 2012

An experiment of futility: 2h 30 minutes

Following progress: Niced up graph. (background color, better gradient, glow, text ren...

May 23, 2012

An experiment of futility: 1h 10 minutes

Send some time on the train working on my little project: Basic GUI, build and source ...

May 22, 2012

An experiment of futility

because of work I had very little time for working on my opensource programs. Beside la...

May 21, 2012

Ubuntu 12.04

This is a ‘beg’ to the ubuntu people.Please fix this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu...

May 06, 2012

Squishybox: Squeezebox replacement

My sd card broke down, my cross-build vm gone, so I had to re-do things.pre:configure t...

April 22, 2012

libmpdclient bitbake file.

I love it is this simple: ?View Code BASH 123456789 ...

April 22, 2012

Compile a cross-compiler for microblaze xilinx

The following script builds a cross-compiler for microblaze-xilinx. Took some time to g...

April 18, 2012

EnergyPoint

Energy PointThis is a small tool to parse and display statistics from a youless.See: ht...

April 09, 2012

setting up HTPC with linaro

Mostly for my archive: (might be userfull for others)Fix a small ‘hick-up’ every 10 sec...

April 08, 2012

Uploading old code to github

Gnome Wireless PC Lock is a Gnome applet that locks your desktop when you walk away fro...

April 01, 2012

Graph things

I have nearly no time to work on it, but I fixed a few things on the train: (dummy data...

March 22, 2012

GPX-Viewer 0.3.0 – Three is a magick number

In the past 2 weeks I have been working on porting gpx-viewer to Gtk+-3.0 and libchampl...

March 11, 2012

Improving gnome3

something I found very weird in gnome3 that I could not type shutdown or suspend in the...

March 04, 2012

Gnome 3 and setting custom XDG_DATA_DIRS

I installed gnome3 from the gnome3-team ppa (or how it was called) and this seems to so...

March 04, 2012

Clutter fun

I fixed my strange libchamplain issue (that you could not interact with the map by usin...

March 04, 2012

So true

I guess I am guilty of this I guess and on the other hand also often on the receiving e...

March 01, 2012

Building a LED lamp

Ever since I installed a nice 2 Meter 18W (66 leds/meter) led strip in the kitchen I ha...

February 18, 2012

Sansea Clip+ tip

I listen to a lot of classical music  and hit the problem that often the volume would b...

February 16, 2012

Good linux support!

Let me try to work away the backlog of things I wanted to blog about.The first one is a...

February 12, 2012

Waldo 2

Another run, as you can see it is developing differently here: I always find it fun to ...

December 29, 2011

EvO – Image vectorization using evolution

I promised to put this code online, so here it is. EvO. A small program that (with very...

December 29, 2011

If Then Else

I wrote a small tool. in the past day. called IfThenElse (Yes needs a better name).The ...

December 27, 2011

MultiMonitorBackground

In git I fixed the multimonitorbackground tool, It will not set the background so even ...

November 09, 2011

MultiMonitor Background settings.

I got sick and tired of no program being able to set desktop background on multimonitor...

November 06, 2011

Multi Monitor Background

And 2 screenshots: For some reason though, gno...

November 06, 2011

Google Reader/GMail Theme for wordpress.

I am one of the rare people that like the new google theme.. I would love to have a goo...

November 06, 2011

Gnome Music Player 11.11,

When doing the latest release (11.8) I planned to make another release this month (11.1...

November 06, 2011

Music

No need for words, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREdOGDanC0

October 15, 2011

Covers can be good

Listen to this one completely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNeWvxWv2o0&feature=...

October 15, 2011

S. Jobs – The dark lord.

we read so many “genious” posts, this one might be worth a good read too, it is a bit h...

October 09, 2011

GMPC release

GMPC release been postponed till tomorrow, I had to build a block hut.. (don’t ask). 

August 14, 2011

Playing with the competition

Well not really, GMPC is a niche product (MPD client) while banshee is an all round des...

August 06, 2011

If you need to easily switch between 32bit and 64bit?

Today I dug up some old software, where I want to re-use a certain part, shamefully it ...

July 28, 2011

Blog comment

I made this account to spam on your forum. Please, delete my account and this topic, ...

July 12, 2011

Good drinking!

June 26, 2011

Playing with vala, libgee and gtk+-3.0: SSHConf

I have been playing a bit with vala, libgee and gtk+-3.0 and wrote a small ssh config e...

June 05, 2011

Near Eindhoven saturday and bored?

http://www.muziekopdedommel.nl/

June 02, 2011

Reduce MPD power consumption

Saving power when using MPD.On your laptop battery power is everything? but playing mus...

May 17, 2011

Natty: Switching to openbox

Because I still prefered my old openbox setup, I switched back from unity to openbox + ...

April 17, 2011

Changing versioning scheme

I am going to change, gmpc will be the first, the versioning scheme I am using.New sche...

April 15, 2011

Watch!

I got a new watch recently. Because huge watches are all the rage now, I decided to get...

April 06, 2011

Random Gnome3 Thoughts

I have been testing gnome 3 on my (now fixed again!!) 6 year old thinkpad T42p. Looks ...

April 02, 2011

Linux gone commercial?

A friend of mine got this error today:

March 24, 2011

Music.

(near) Perfection happens rarely, but when it does it can be beyond belief. Yes I am ta...

March 12, 2011

GPX-Viewer distance graph

I while back I added a distance graph to gpx-viewer, found it mostly pointless. So toda...

February 15, 2011

Battery life time, better then expected.

A small while back I bought a new laptop, one with a AMD II Neo K345 processor with HD4...

February 10, 2011

Theme sucky slowness2

It seems to be faster to rebuild 201000 widgets, then gtk_container_remove() and gtk_co...

January 14, 2011

Theme sucky slowness

I have been testing with the problem in my previous post,  *reset_rc_styles_recurse *be...

January 13, 2011

GMPC Volume widget.

The  GtkVolumeButton has been irritating me for a while now, it is so easy do accidentl...

November 12, 2010

Updated my netbook

Took some effort to get everything installed the way I want, but it is operational agai...

October 14, 2010

Looking for a cheap bar-code/label printer

I am looking  for a small cheap! label/barcode printer. I got a better webcam for my ba...

October 01, 2010

Yet another MPD Box.

Thanks to Elmob, who send me this great little toy.I have yet another MPD box.It is a F...

September 08, 2010

Documentating a program

Dear lazyweb,I am looking for a good system to document my program.The program is writt...

August 30, 2010

GPX-Viewer 0.2.0

GPX-Viewer is a simple program to view gpx files. It is focussed for viewing files gene...

August 17, 2010

Riding bike + opengl text issues.

I know, they don’t look related at first glance.. But the thing is this, I starting rid...

July 03, 2010

Stuffkeeper – Barcode integration

I created a plugin for stuffkeeper that uses libzbar to read a barcode using a webcam. ...

June 21, 2010

Great Samsung service

monday morning I called, in the afternoon they picked it up. friday I got it back with ...

June 11, 2010

Setting up a MPD Music Box.

I got my hands on a Juli-C400R board. (Specifications) (foto)This is a nice little boar...

April 30, 2010

Gnome Music Player Client 0.20.0

This release is spit and polish release, on both the gui side: new icon theme (humanity...

April 03, 2010

GPX Viewer improvements

Show a list of track points. (see screenshot) Docks, so you ca...

March 07, 2010

GPX-Viewer improvements

Last few days I have been improving gpx-viewer, a quick list: Support multiple maps (c...

February 27, 2010

Photo 2

Photo of same scene. Different weather (and post processing)

February 25, 2010

Use GMRUN as run dialog

Open ‘gconf-editor’Lookup the ‘apps/metacity’ folder.Open the subfolder “global_keybind...

February 16, 2010

Photo

February 16, 2010

Odd pricing

I managed to break my watch 1 month ago when falling down with my bike riding on a comp...

February 13, 2010

GMPC, a new release is due. Maybe!

I have been working on and off on the new GMPC release.Until now there have been 3 pre-...

February 07, 2010

My server moved

Greg (the best!!)  who is generously (thank you) hosting my website moved servers. So p...

January 18, 2010

Stuffkeeper, finally an update

I finally updated stuffkeeper again, this is support for supporting visual links to f.e...

January 10, 2010

Weird pulseaudio issue

When I use pulseaudio I hear a nice distortion (in left speaker.. strangly enough) of a...

December 26, 2009

MPDHOOKER

Ali released today another mpdcron like program, it is more advanced, so it is going to...

December 18, 2009

Speeding up gmpc, async io

Last week I tried to improve gmpc performance in the albumview and metadata browser.I w...

December 07, 2009

Positive GMPC Review

http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/gnome-music-player-client-gmpc-mpd-just.htmlas a side no...

November 22, 2009

GMPC Humanity

GMPC now includes some nice humanity icons you get if you switch to the humanity theme....

November 21, 2009

WTF

This was part off a Rail mount adapter package.

November 19, 2009

Squeezebox Classic

Why?The squeezebox classic has been something I drooled over for many years. I always c...

November 02, 2009

GPX-Viewer: Elevation support

I fiddled a bit with the Gpx::Graph widget to make it more flexible. It can now also di...

October 30, 2009

Phone Rant

The mobile phone saga.Last year my abo ended and I could get a new abo with new phone. ...

October 26, 2009

GMPC 0.19.0

From Gnome Music Player Client </p> ...

September 19, 2009

Ipod Touch os 3.1

I have been using it since it was released and I am getting more and more unhappy about...

September 17, 2009

Laptop Connector

If your laptop does not turn on anymore, and starts to produce smoke and smells horribl...

September 15, 2009

GMPC 0.19.0 beta 1

GMPC 0.18.96From Gnome Music Player Client </p> ...

August 08, 2009

Notification area squeezebox controller

I wrote a tiny quick and dirty squeezebox controller yesterday.It sits in your tray, it...

August 07, 2009

Sad times

from the lyrics wiki plugin: Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of...

August 03, 2009

GPX Viewer 0.0.7 – Beta 2 release

This release fixes some problems with locales. (vala uses the locale dependent strtod i...

July 23, 2009

GPXViewer 0.0.6

Changes since 0.0.5 Configure now checks for valac and valac version. Improved moving...

July 12, 2009

Blue Banner…

July 11, 2009

Update gpx-viewer

Added Gpx-Viewer to git here.Added: Added speed/time plot Added autotools build syste...

June 30, 2009

Quick and dirty Gpx Viewer

Images speaks more then a 1000 words.(p.s. it is a downloaded gpx track so the time sta...

June 29, 2009

GPS

I am looking for a good GPS to use for riding a bike.I used a bluetooth gps mouse and m...

June 14, 2009

Driver CD’s

I got a massif amount of driver cd’s here.  Monitors, motherboards, videocards, soundca...

June 07, 2009

Micro-blogging

as I am _way_ to lazy to write propper blog reports.I created an account on identi.caht...

June 06, 2009

Computer power use

A while back I started “watching” the amount of power I used. I also took it into accou...

May 13, 2009

Weird X problem

This is a re-occuring problem for me, mostly it is suddenly gone, or (because of frustr...

April 25, 2009

Remembered why I disliked apple

In less then 2 weeks, the ipod touch n ow refuses to sync with itunes.. it hangs on “sy...

April 16, 2009

IPod touch as agenda

It was not my prefered choice, but I got a iPod touch as agenda. The integration with m...

April 09, 2009

Looking for a good digital agenda

I am currently using the combination of my mobile phone (E78) and my Palm Tungsten E.Th...

March 28, 2009

Gnome Music Player Client OsX app.

http://download.sarine.nl/GMPC.app.tar.bz2For intel mac, build on osX 1.05.Please test.

March 16, 2009

[Grind my gears] Notification Daemon

The notification daemon nicely, and quietly, changed the api.* Text is now escaped in t...

March 11, 2009

Gnome Music Player Client 0.18.0

GMPC 0.18.0From Gnome Music Player ClientChanges sinceAdded features Global copy/pa...

March 09, 2009

Disaster waiting to happen

Disaster waiting to happen. Nothing else can be said about this:http://www.thesataswitc...

March 01, 2009

Speeding up my aspire one/Maak mijn aspire one bruikbaar

Ik heb al eerder geklaagt over de traagheid van mijn aspire one, deze traagheid is voor...

February 27, 2009

Micro mpd + gmpc box

Yes, that runs debian linux, mpd 0.14.2 and gmpc and uses less then 2W (powered by usb).

February 18, 2009

Vala goodness in gmpc

I have been working on vala binding for gmpc, so I can use vala to code (new) parts of ...

February 02, 2009

Better looking notification

If you dislike the default (ubuntu) look of notifications fromn the notification daemon...

January 30, 2009

GMPC on windows 7

I tried out, as blogged before, windows 7 a while back. So today I tried running my lat...

January 29, 2009

Annoying improvements

I got anew phone recently, because my contract ended and I switched from provider.This ...

January 19, 2009

GMPC Play Audio CD

Commited a few minor changes to the mserver plugin. So you should be able to play an au...

January 16, 2009

Memory leaks and Still reachable

==3169====3169== 132,642 bytes in 172 blocks are still reachable in loss record 242 of ...

January 13, 2009

Database in a large XML file.

I wrote a jamendo plugin for gmpc a while back. To get the data I used the json interfa...

January 13, 2009

Testing Windows 7

Just like I did with windows vista, I downloaded the beta and gave it a try:Downloading...

January 11, 2009

Cairo Clock Gone funky

Ever since I upgraded to a 9400GT card (from 8500GT that overheated) I have weird drawi...

January 02, 2009

IconView slow hell

There was a post about a music client that showed all album covers in a huge list. I th...

December 31, 2008

Site update

Spend several hours tonight updating the mediawikis and wordpress. Annoying things you ...

December 27, 2008

GMPC on windows 32

I finally fixed a long standing crasher in the metadata plugins on windows, and fixed t...

December 05, 2008

Concert

Listen (and see) here

December 02, 2008

Selling my soul to the devil.

For years now I always said that I wouldn’t implement certain things. Because 1. I don’...

November 22, 2008

Trying to get music on an mtp mp3 player

Well My first thought was: Lets install banshee!.Banshee looks _very_ nice, the music p...

October 09, 2008

Remote control frenzy

Well my remote control frenzy is almost complete.Using an eee-box + microsoft infrared ...

October 07, 2008

Spending my weekend

This weekend I will be participating in this:

September 29, 2008

Reclame

</p></a>

September 28, 2008

Gmpc 0.16.0 Beta 1: Still 100% gnome free.

Gnome Music Player Client 0.16.0 Beta 1: Still 100% Gnome Free New Features Rewritte...

August 09, 2008

Gmpc 0.16.0 memory usage analyse

I have been playing a bit with massif, and a little gnuplot script. Below you see a sm...

July 29, 2008

Stuffkeeper password field

I have implemented (still very simple) support for encrypted fields. It uses gpgme to e...

July 28, 2008

Stuffkeeper, Now including vala dependency

I have been added support for configuring fields in a schema. For example you can now s...

July 26, 2008

Gtk+ Bug

I posted this: #540669 bug a month ago. what must I do to get it _atleast_ looked at?

July 26, 2008

Computer power usage.

I’ve measured the power usage on my desktop computer:It consists of:2×17″ tft1xusb hub....

July 26, 2008

Stuffkeeper vala plugin

I am writing, a slightly pointless, vala plugin to test (and fix) the stuffkeeper.vapi ...

July 20, 2008

Donation for a new laptop battery.

My, year old, laptop battery is dead. So I cannot code in the train anymore.So I though...

July 11, 2008

Stuffkeeper 0.11.1, fixing the tar.gz

I screwed up the 0.11.0 release. So after a deep dive in the autotools info-pages, I go...

June 21, 2008

MPD 0.13.2

http://musicpd.org/uploads/files/mpd-0.13.2.tar.gzSHA1: 744800e3b667a0d11418029b8ed69f7...

June 17, 2008

Libegg, what is it status.

I spend this morning and part of last night working on writing my own “Date” widget.I u...

June 15, 2008

Rename GMPC?

People still think when seeing “Gnome Music Player Daemon” that gmpc depends on 1002 gn...

June 11, 2008

Hardy, funny messaging

I installed ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop last night, and after first boot it told me, that ...

May 11, 2008

Stuffkeeper, Help with translation

I need some help with the translation of stuffkeeper. 2 questions arise: What is...

May 07, 2008

StuffKeeper, 0.10.0 test release

After some longer time, a new fancy test-release. This release is the last release befo...

April 27, 2008

Stuffkeeper, moving to autotools again

Having more and more problems with waf forgetting to rebuilds parts when header files c...

April 26, 2008

Stuffkeeper, Trying to make it somewhat easier

April 21, 2008

StuffKeeper, new webpage and domain

I registered a new domain for stuffkeeper:stuffkeeper.org

April 16, 2008

Lockups, finally solved.

Moving to x86 archlinux didn’t fix the lockups I was experiencing when upgrading to har...

April 14, 2008

Tip for installing programs outside “default” location

Since stepping to ubuntu, I have the habit of installing stuffkeeper/gmpc/mpd/etc outsi...

April 09, 2008

Stuffkeeper, Gutsy and hardy packages

I been playing to get debian packages generated, after alot of pain and sweat.But I fin...

April 06, 2008

Hardy update, not very lucky

I have updated my gutsy to hardy (x86_64).Now I experience random lockups, no idea how ...

April 06, 2008

Stuffkeeper, More speedups

In the train today I’ve tested stuffkeeper with 1000 items, just to see how slow it was...

April 04, 2008

Crash free Glade-3

Is there a place I can download a crash-free glade-3. Preferable one that creates valid...

April 02, 2008

Upgraded wordpress *again*

It seems wp-codebox does not work. shame, I would love to see properly colored code.

April 01, 2008

Stuffkeeper, Preview release 0.08

Ok, very quick this time, but a (stupid) bug makes it a wise thing todo.You can get it ...

April 01, 2008

StuffKeeper, speedups

By moving some code around, I been able to speedup the startup a factor 3 (0.3 seconds ...

March 31, 2008

Stuffkeeper Wiki

I’ve started a wiki for stuffkeeper.

March 30, 2008

Stuffkeeper Pre-release 0.07

A new preview release is ready.This release futures: Cleaned up interface, most notica...

March 29, 2008

Archlinux, it is madness.

There was a weird bug in stuffkeeper, only reproducable in archlinux.So I thought, lets...

March 29, 2008

Stuffkeeper, html export

I’ve implemented html output to stuffkeeper.It parses a template files and generates ht...

March 24, 2008

StuffKeeper Pre-release

This is a testing release for everybody to try:Get it here: download.Compile instructio...

March 19, 2008

Pulse audio

A while back I moved my stereo to the other side of the room. It got to far away to con...

March 17, 2008

Stuffkeeper, sqlite question

Can I make sqlite delay the writing to the file. I do allot of small writes from differ...

March 15, 2008

StuffKeeper, now using sqlite3

I spend the whole day today rewriting the backend of StuffKeeper to use sqlite3.It’s be...

March 15, 2008

Stuffkeeper updates

Added the following items: Support  for icons combined with types. Adding/editing/rem...

March 08, 2008

Moved Blog

Moved my blog to http://blog.sarine.nl and put up a redirect on the old url, I hope it ...

March 08, 2008

Lirc, controlling even more….

I’ve bought a Microsoft MCE usb infrared transmitter/reciever. (yes I know, ms, but it ...

March 06, 2008

StuffKeeper: Getting Started Guide

You can find it here:

March 01, 2008

Low Memory Hacks for gnome.

This page http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction/LowMemoryHacks describes some tricks/ha...

March 01, 2008

Good GPS software for nokia Phone

Today I went for a cycle on my bike and (for the first time using gps) i found my way b...

February 23, 2008

StuffKeeper updates

Added support for more formats. (f.e. image) Background saving of modified items. C...

February 11, 2008

StuffKeeper

Just a little movie:Movie

February 02, 2008

GTodo 2 testing.

I just realized I never posted the svn repository needed for testing gtodo2.So here it ...

January 30, 2008

Quote of the day

Thanks meek for pointing me to this linkqoute: Also hier könnt ihr dass Hauptprogramm...

January 29, 2008

Some GTodo2 tweaks

Show when a task is due in the tree, beside colors. Remove toolbar. Add buttons to ...

January 16, 2008

Tag browser, now even more interactive.

Not sure how to explain it, maybe this movie makes it clear:Click here

December 30, 2007

Onboard audio card, it’s terrible.

On the mpd forum there was a post with some playback problems. The guy posted a link to...

December 15, 2007

Another Harddisk bytes the dust. (cont.)

I went to the store today, with the receipt, smart-log printout and the harddisk. And a...

December 15, 2007

Another Harddisk bytes the dust.

My 160gig, with 1/2 my music collection, just died under my nose..If I stack up all the...

December 14, 2007

One bug a week eeuh severall weeks

My one bug a week is shamefully slowing down. Real-life has been very busy again.So the...

December 12, 2007

MPD Overview

Big thanks to cervik.

December 06, 2007

Hosting problems

A few of you might have noticed, a few hours after releasing gmpc 0.15.5 sarine.nl got ...

December 06, 2007

Comments

I re-enabled (with some trouble and man-editing files) comments on my blog… hope the sp...

December 01, 2007

And there was light

Today I could pick up my fixed laptop.It seems that the video card chip got loose from ...

November 29, 2007

One bug a week

Since mpd is currently low on developers, I decided to (try) to fix one bug in mpd a we...

November 27, 2007

And everything went black..

Yesterday evening, when just doing a quick check, my laptop screen went black.. and cam...

November 27, 2007

New gmpc test machine

I used to have an old imac for this, but it died.But I got my hand on some new “old” ha...

November 12, 2007

Deskbar constant cpu usage

I have no idea why, but for some reason, deskbar seems to use around 6-12% of cpu const...

November 05, 2007

Fancy looking Song announcement

Well a pictures sais more then a 1000 words.. So I’ll post a little movie:http://random...

October 13, 2007

Notification Avant-window-Navigator style

There is a notify-daemon applet for the avant-window-navigator, tonight I spend some ti...

October 12, 2007

The briliance of the small things

I truely like small things, like the message option that is available if you lock your ...

October 01, 2007

Weird spam on mpd’s forum

On the mpd forum:C Programmers Help !`Alright, here’s the beef. I’m basically writing a...

August 23, 2007

Gtodo2 – Gnome Task List Manager 2 another beta

Another beta release.

August 08, 2007

Gtodo2 moving away from GtkTextView

Just a vbox packed with some labels and tables looks allot better

August 02, 2007

Playing with vala.

I’ve been playing with vala a bit today. It looks nice, but it is some puzzling to get ...

July 29, 2007

XMacro

This is a first dirty version of my modified xmacro version: Here

July 12, 2007

(continuing) Developing xmacro

I needed a tool that could record, and playback key and mouse presses on linux with lit...

July 09, 2007

New Phone

Because of my stolen phone (see prev. post), I bought a new one.A Nokia E50, it’s alot ...

July 03, 2007

Friday the 13th’s or something like that

I’ve had the most terrible day in a long time: Server crashed twice, causing the syste...

June 29, 2007

Looking for tips

I’ve setup my server (as I posted last time) and I’ve got most setup: Raid 1 for the /...

June 23, 2007

New Server

I’ve finally moved some stuff to my new server, including this blog.http://qballcow.nl ...

June 19, 2007

Metadata Browser updates

http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist3.pnghttp://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist4....

June 17, 2007

gmpc bugfix release 0.15.1

Just a quick bugfix release. I found a memory leak in gmpc that was also available in t...

June 10, 2007

MPD Hack of the week

Well now that mpd 0.13.0 is released. Time to announce my mpd hack of the week.It doesn...

May 28, 2007

gmpc release 0.15.0

Changes: Support for server side playlist search (and has fall back for when it’s no...

May 19, 2007

gmpc 0.15 RC 2

Yet another release candidate. Some smaller fixes, cleanups etc.You can get it here, in...

May 16, 2007

GtkIconView problems

I tried making a view using GtkIconView, but I do have problems with it..It’s realy slo...

May 15, 2007

Gmpc 0.15.0 Pre-Release

Just a pre-release 1 of gmpc 0.15.Changed: Support for server side playlist search (an...

May 09, 2007

Gtodo2 – Test release

I wanted todo it for a long time, but always put it off because I wasn’t happy with som...

May 04, 2007

Gtodo2 – Test release (screenshot)

Forgot the screenshot:

May 04, 2007

gmpc e-mail

I just got this e-mail:----------------------------------------------------------------...

April 21, 2007

How to browse through a large music collection efficient.

This is something being bugging me for quiet a while now.What is the  best way to show...

April 18, 2007

GMPC Interface

It doesn’t matter how I make it, there are always people complaining about how it shoul...

April 15, 2007

Rather no security then a false sense of security… proven again

Another good example: http://tweakers.net/reviews/683/1

April 13, 2007

gmpc on nokia

http://mmpc.garage.maemo.org/I still  wonder why the artist wasn’t so nice to send me ...

April 12, 2007

Gtk on windows and icon-theme issues

I’ve recently moved the (some) of the custom images in gmpc to this system: http://live...

April 09, 2007

Nokia 770

I am looking for a nokia 770 to test gmpc on. But I don’t have the cash to buy one myse...

April 08, 2007

record my desktop and gmpc

Been playing a bit with recordmydesktop (and the gtk frontend), and this has been one o...

April 05, 2007

*BLAH BLAH BLAH*

It seemed I reacted a bit pissed, sorry for that, move along nothing to see anymore.

April 03, 2007

NVidia and poor performance.

I’ve recently (+- 1 month ago) I replaced my ati X550 (64mb) PCI-E video card with a NV...

April 01, 2007

1 april, and more

I don’t mind april the first jokes. But this is not fun anymore. slashdot has nothing b...

April 01, 2007

GMPC, tango love

Not only gtk got some tango love. But also gmpc got _some_ tango love last week. But un...

March 30, 2007

Blog spam

This is just crazy:Caught SpamAkismet has caught 2,013 spam for you since you installed...

March 25, 2007

MPD 0.12.2

Last weekend we discovered a serious bug in mpd, that allowed you to remotely crash mpd...

March 21, 2007

Scary compile messages

I am compiling gtk on mac osX, and I see this scroll by….“-DGTK_PRINT_PREVIEW_COMMAND=\...

March 17, 2007

GMPC – Going Media-Box style

After seeing this screenshot, and a discussion about how to implement it (clutter, or c...

March 03, 2007

GMPC, Custom Treeview

I’ve wrote a small custom treeview implementation (200 lines of gob code), It takes a M...

March 01, 2007

MP3 Player updates, finally working under linux

I’ve bought a philips hdd6320 mp3 player a while back. it was the cheapest  Euro/GB I ...

February 27, 2007

Task lists… and syncing *update* 2

As posted before I’ve wrote a flat file backend for gtodo2. It stores every todo item i...

February 18, 2007

IRC Quote

< shank> “Please finish your programs before you release them.”< pat> I try...

February 18, 2007

Gnome Music Player Client 0.14.0

After too long, it’s finally here.. gmpc 0.14.0.A small list of some of the changes in ...

February 18, 2007

Task lists… and syncing update

I’ve implemented a Flat-File backend for gtodo2 yesterday (and polished it in the train...

February 16, 2007

Task lists… and syncing

Because of lack of time and energy gtodo(2) developement has gone to a grinding halt.Bu...

February 14, 2007

What is wrong in this picture

I need a new batteryQballp.s. I actually had to turn the laptop off because the train a...

February 13, 2007

GMPC 0.14.0 Release Candidate 2

First an appology. In this RC I force people to recompile all the plugins.I do this for...

February 13, 2007

GMPC 0.14.0 Release Candidate 2 *update*

A small bug in libmpd, it’s fixed now.

February 13, 2007

GMPC 0.14.0 Release Candidate 2 *update 2*

Like always, making a release and saying that this is probably going to be the next rel...

February 13, 2007

GMPC 0.14.0 Release Candidate 1

It’s finally here. gmpc 0.14.0 Release Candidate 1.This needs allot of testing, I am no...

February 03, 2007

Beryl

I’ve tried beryl today on my laptop.At first it didn’t work, segfaults kind of fun. Aft...

February 02, 2007

Not too late

I’ve bought the new album from Norah Jones today: “Not Too Late”Like always it’s a plea...

January 26, 2007

Boring Blog posts

15:57 < whatah> Also, your blog is boring.15:58 < @Qball> never said it wou...

January 26, 2007

Atmel coding, Getting some space to play with.

I had an atmel mega 16 lying around that didn’t react to the programmer anymore. This w...

January 25, 2007

Atmel Coding, Optimalisation

Hitting the 2k program space, I looked to improve the code size.Realizing that using a ...

January 20, 2007

Atmel Coding, unexpected errors

An atmel uses one clock, in my case I use an external crystal (if you run a clock on it...

January 19, 2007

Atmel coding

Just a few small remarks:For the atmel, there are allot of open source tools available....

January 17, 2007

Atmel coding, commen errors

I’ve posted in a previous post that I implemented a clock in the atmel, and that there ...

January 17, 2007

Turning it a notch down, from 1024MByte to only 128byte of memory

(This is a blog post I wanted to make a little while back, but never got around typing ...

January 16, 2007

ISP stress, and gnuplot fun

I’ve spend almost 2 hours on the phone with planet.nl (a big isp here), being redirecte...

January 05, 2007

Spam, and scratching an itch

I’ve took some extra measures against blog spam. I’ve tested it the last few days, and ...

December 30, 2006

There we go again, Part 3

Well, I’ve fixed my pc. Replaced the motherboard.But stupidly enough, this new motherbo...

December 21, 2006

There we go again, part 2

As (not clearly) posted before, my pc broke down again.This time it didn’t spring back ...

December 19, 2006

There we go again

http://wordpress.qballcow.nl/2006/06/22/then-it-works-then-it-wont/Just when you need it.

December 17, 2006

Custom keybinding

This is something most more experienced gnome users will know, but today I could actual...

December 14, 2006

gmpc

What is gmpc?gmpc, Gnome Music Player Client, is a graphical fronted for the music play...

December 09, 2006

Blog spam and more. 2

Looking back in my e-mail to see what posts are recieving the spam comments, 90% is in ...

December 09, 2006

The horror

Fedora core 6 ships gmpc 0.11.2 as latest version.That version is so old, that David (b...

December 08, 2006

Blog spam and more.

I’ve been getting an awfully lot of comment spam on my blog lately. 20 a day is very co...

December 06, 2006

Links Links and more links

This website has allot of nice links, and it’s pretty well organized.Check it out,  an...

November 19, 2006

Amazon Fun

I use amazon for fetching album info and cover art in gmpc. There been problems with fe...

November 17, 2006

gmpc memory usage 5

I’ve did some small test on the config system used in gmpc. (it’s used for the config f...

November 13, 2006

gmpc libmpd version checking runtime

I’ve had alot of “bogus” bug reports lately, almost all caused by people having to libm...

November 13, 2006

Qalaxy

I’ve spend to much time today getting a new site up for my programs. http://sarine.nl/I...

November 12, 2006

New Website

I am slowly filling the new data in, http://sarine.nl/ (the mysql problems should be so...

November 12, 2006

gmpc memory usage 4

To make a more “fair” comparison of gmpc vs. f.e. sonate or pympd. I did another memory...

November 10, 2006

gmpc memory usage 3

Another stat, this is pympd, it’s alot slower, so I didn’t take time to skip a few song...

November 09, 2006

gmpc memory usage 2

I know it isn’t 100% fair comparison, bu this is a memory profile of sonate connected t...

November 09, 2006

gmpc memory usage 1

I did a quick memory usage check on gmpc today, and this is the result I got: (I̵...

November 08, 2006

Short HowTo on compiling gmpc from svn

I’ve wrote up a quick ‘n dirty howto on how to compile gmpc on ubuntu edgy. (should wor...

November 06, 2006

Amazing webmail client and git

I’ve been playing with git today, I can yet say I like it.. It took me allot of time to...

October 28, 2006

GMPC, a nice little addition

I wrote the following plugin for gmpc today, it shows some statistics about the mpd ser...

October 27, 2006

Libcurl bug crushed, I realy should RTFM

I’ve fixed my strange crasher in gmpc, in a tutorial on libcurl there was a hint that w...

October 24, 2006

Weird Crash

I’ve ran in the most weird problem with gmpc.Gmpc uses (and provides for plugins) gmpc_...

October 20, 2006

Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 7

I’ve made another alpha/beta release.Changes: handle destroying of notification tr...

October 10, 2006

HDD Crash

One of my hdd crashed… luckely nothing serious lost, some old backups (now I don’t have...

October 10, 2006

To McGyver, or not to McGyver

My new palm connector  (yeah, not to connect to a pc, but something else)Made out of a...

October 08, 2006

Usefull Error messages, Don’t you just love them

z_zone.c:226: Z_Init: Assertion `32 >= sizeof(memblock_t) && (4*1024*1024)...

October 05, 2006

Wireless PC Lock – Continued 6

A slight warning I should probably make. Wireless PC Lock doesn’t increase security, it...

October 04, 2006

Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 5

I’ve made the following updates, and the program is now actually usefull: Tell the use...

October 03, 2006

Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 4

I wasn’t realy happy with the code as it was, so I rewrote it into G:Object’s. (using g...

October 02, 2006

Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 3

Just a small update, I’ve put gwsl in my svn server, so you can grab it with the follow...

October 01, 2006

Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 2

I’ve made the following changes: If the dongle is unplugged, lock the screen. left cl...

October 01, 2006

Wireless PC Lock – Continued

I’ve improved it a little bit further: After some fiddling around, I can now detect le...

September 30, 2006

Sitecom Wireless PC Lock

I’ve bought (paradigit sells them for 1/2 the price atm) a Sitecom Wireless PC Lock tod...

September 30, 2006

Music

I have been listening to the following album:It has allot of nice numbers (and off cour...

September 28, 2006

Random stuff

In my opinion, E. Clapton’s best album.yes I know, this was random .gmpcGmpc is progre...

September 16, 2006

GMPC, Profile support

Since this morning, gmpc has “profile” support.You can now easily  switch from one mpd...

September 04, 2006

Screencast with ffmpeg

I tried out making a screencast with ffmpeg, and gave the best result so far:A small mo...

September 01, 2006

Virus Virus and yet another virus

I help some people with keeping the pc’s running. A while back I helped with some netwo...

August 22, 2006

GMPC in example mac-style gtk screenshot

Always nice to see your program pop-up in random places.http://static.flickr.com/97/220...

August 21, 2006

MPD 0.12.0 Release Candidate 1

Grab it now:tar.bz2: http://musicpd.org/uploads/files/mpd-0.12.0rc1.tar.bz2tar.gz: http...

August 10, 2006

Inventory, a test tarball

I know I should write a long story here, about how nice, fancy and fluffy it is… But it...

August 06, 2006

Inventory, on speed again, development not

I’ve removed the “on-demand” as every row query takes 80ms to access and was to slow. I...

August 01, 2006

Nice rendering withouth textview or html widget

Just build out of gtkimages, tables, and vboxes. and only the background uses expose-ev...

July 30, 2006

Inventory

I’ve implemented several little, but usefull features in inventory today. Like import/e...

July 30, 2006

Tiles, Tiles and more Tiles.

I wrote a plugin for gmpc-svn that users tiles to select albums. It’s pretty simple.you...

July 29, 2006

Tiles, Everybody is doing it!

sorry for the crappy recording, but had a bit of a fight with it. http://images.qballco...

July 29, 2006

More Inventory

Cleaned up some more code today, implemented searching. So where almost at the function...

July 27, 2006

Inventories config system

I got a quick and dirty config system in place (using g_key_file_* from glib).And by im...

July 27, 2006

Inventory Icon

I did some more work on inventory. It now saves column width, can export to csv, and fi...

July 26, 2006

To tired to make a decent post

July 25, 2006

Enabled comments

I hope the spam stays in control this time..

July 25, 2006

Inventory

Implemented another few options today…  Like editing an item, changing columns and a f...

July 23, 2006

More Blog

Despite the heat (still 31 degrees at 22:00) I took another ride today, 50km this time....

July 19, 2006

More on inventory

Today I had another bit of bad-bike-luck. I drove to the store on my City Bike, and two...

July 18, 2006

Permissions, Inventory and torture

Well I start with the torture…Fixed my bike tomorrow (I lost a part Saturday ) and I d...

July 17, 2006

Howto become a troll

I am now officially a troll!!I was coding happily along on my fresh arch-install, fired...

July 15, 2006

Archlinux

I’ve installed archlinux on my workstation.So after I had everything working, I tried a...

July 14, 2006

Dualscreen on laptop. Ati done something right.

With my Workstation non-functioning, I hooked up my laptop to my KVM.  Because I need ...

June 23, 2006

Then it Works, Then it Won’t

Yesterday my workstation worked fine.Today, it wouldn’t do a thing. Now I have to find ...

June 22, 2006

It Should be KISC not KISS

Keep It Simple, Consistent.

June 19, 2006

MPD on MacOsX

This has been working for a while, but always caused some skipping at the start of the ...

June 17, 2006

gmpc for windows

After Jat and me fiddled a bit, we finally managed to cross-compile a plugin for gmpc.S...

June 12, 2006

Weird gtkmozembed errors on dapper? here’s a fix

The problem haunting me for months now, and the way to make your program run again is v...

June 11, 2006

Cheap soundcard vs. Creative

I used to have a Creative Soundblaster Live! 24bit external soundcard. It was terrible,...

June 08, 2006

En er was licht.

Vandaag heb ik mijn 20 Hi-Efficientie leds (1cm diameter) ontvangen, en ze geven heel v...

June 01, 2006

MPD

edit: Tip 1: Don’t make blog post when you are to tired to think.Everybody using mpd pl...

May 14, 2006

Task Oriented Desktop

See blog by eleusis

May 03, 2006

More! More! metadata

Gmpc can now also show artist image, artist biography, album info.A screenshot of artis...

April 20, 2006

Good support from linksys

last night my new router crashed again. it happens around once a week. So, slightly irr...

April 19, 2006

GtkTextView – Who needs html

I’ve been playing yesterday and today with GtkTextView. Trying to make a nice “Song inf...

April 14, 2006

GMPC

I’ve implemented the changes to the backend as described in my previous blog. It went e...

April 07, 2006

Testing gnome (and gmpc) on slow hardware

Looking around the house at what low-end hardware I have I could install linux (and gmp...

April 06, 2006

More Optimalisations to gmpc

Solving the speed problems drawing the playlist in gmpc, there are big 2 bottlenecks le...

April 05, 2006

Writing an article, why use the truth.

Well I can write a long rant b**ing about it. I won’t.http://www.linux.com/article.pl?s...

April 04, 2006

More speedups

I did the “fixed-row-height” and now the rendering of the treeview takes (after it’s fi...

March 31, 2006

Small changes for a polished feel

On my laptop a few small things has changed, realy minor. But it is a huge difference i...

March 30, 2006

Faster GMPC

I’ve used the “trick” described by Emmanuele Bassi on the gmpc playlist-model. I’ve bum...

March 30, 2006

tinyMCE

Played around with tinyMCE abit, and I must say it’s incredible. Just a few lines of co...

March 27, 2006

WordPress Update

I hope it doesn’t cause much problems for planet.nl.gnome.org.I must say the new admin ...

March 26, 2006

Spam

the spam is forcing me to turn of the comments (again)

March 25, 2006

Saint James Infirmary

One of the songs I realy like (one of those song you can keep on listening too) is: ...

March 16, 2006

38

Looking for a solution for this: bug. You would be my hero.Gtkhtml2 is driving me compl...

March 16, 2006

GtkMozembed gone bonkers

Since my upgrade to dapper, my C programs that use gtkmozembed, and my python programs ...

March 13, 2006

Custom Tree Model

I’ve moved my custom tree model for the playlist in gmpc. It went alot smoother then I ...

March 09, 2006

It’s a miracle

Kernel update, and my palm now works on my mac mini. And it looks likes my usb->seri...

March 07, 2006

Don Camillo & Peppone

I’ve read (most) of the books many times….Now I saw this 5dvd box in the store, and I j...

March 07, 2006

Palm Sync, the story continues.

Yes, against all expectation, I am not done complaining yet.Today I thought “Lets make ...

March 06, 2006

Sync with evolution

It worked, no duplicate events, no return of purged items… I don’t know what to say.

March 05, 2006

Evolution to gtodo converter

First attemped, still single direction, I wrote a evolution to gtodo converter.I’ve too...

March 05, 2006

Dapper gpilotd fix

It turned out to be so simple I should have figured it out myself….gpilotd uses /prob/b...

March 05, 2006

Reason I actually bought a mac mini

Beside being a nice small machine, I bought my mac mini to be able todo some basic de...

March 04, 2006

Print Support in gtodo2

It’s there!!! It’s still rough, and it prints stuff like: “Due Today” withouth showing ...

March 02, 2006

Linux on Mac Mini

The sage continues, I’ve spend/wasted (again) severall hours on my mac mini.The problem...

March 02, 2006

Gtodo2

Dit some more work on gtodo2 today. I’ve implemented an option I wanted to implement fo...

February 27, 2006

Scanner and stuff

I’ve bought a scanner yesterday.. It’s a Canon Lide 25. Simple, cheap and works under l...

February 26, 2006

24

on request:

February 22, 2006

Golden Combination

Mozilla Thunderbird + tango icon theme, moving the layout around a bit, and it’s almost...

February 20, 2006

Xgl

I’ve got it (finally) running on my laptop, and I can say nothing more then that it’s v...

February 19, 2006

GMPC 0.13 “Cover Art Frenzy” Release Candidate 1

Yesterday I made a release candidate 1 of gmpc 0.13:hereAllready 1 bug has been found, ...

February 19, 2006

Development slowly gaining speed again

I saw this blog and I cannot agree more.I just don’t feel at home in MacOsX.One of the ...

February 13, 2006

VMWare player

I’ve installed vmware-player on my amd64 today. So I could install a 32bit linux. (Need...

January 31, 2006

Uber Geek?

The most fancy and geekish now-playing script on the internet:HereA microcontroller (at...

January 20, 2006

One of my longest standing bug’s fixed

Today I fixed one of the longest standing bugs….Gtodo crashing when saving to a remote ...

January 18, 2006

gtodo mail to mailing list.

`Today I’ve done some work on the cvs version of gtodo. I’ve fixed one of the most lon...

January 18, 2006

Custom TreeModel

I said: “Now I (someday) plan to write a custom GtkTreeModel.”That night I couldn’t sle...

January 13, 2006

It are the simple things in life, that can make you feel good

I wrote my own gtkwidget. It’s probly buggy, doesn’t do everything I want yet, but it’s...

January 10, 2006

Gmpc bug-count

I’ve been spending some extra time on gmpc, and I’m down to only 3 tickets left in mant...

January 08, 2006

GMPC

As posted yesterday, I redid the whole config system, while keeping completely api comp...

January 06, 2006

Config System

A (long) while back I changed the config system in gmpc. The old system was very nasty....

January 05, 2006

Cover Art

After I’ve been pointed to a adesklet (mpd2v) for mpd and given it a try. I thougt I co...

January 01, 2006

New Workstation

I bought a new pc as workstation today, bye bye 1.2 Ghz Amd Thunderbird. Welcome amd64 ...

December 28, 2005

Composite

I got a bit tired of the “ugly” look of xosd, the fonts have rough edges and I like it ...

December 27, 2005

GTODO

I know I wrote/blogged about this many time before.But I am still looking for some good...

December 22, 2005

Internet at high speed

I know it has a bit of a geek-factor, but I am internetting @ between 120-140 km/h.It’s...

December 19, 2005

Test from gnome-blog

Gnome-blog seems to want the path to xmlrpc.php end on wordpress/xmlrpc.php, not very u...

December 13, 2005

Test blog

Just testing out how wordpress is working.I am getting a bit tired of etomite, so I am ...

December 13, 2005

New Weblog software

I wanted to do some work on my website again. At the moment it’s half split between my ...

December 13, 2005