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Today there was this post on http://webupd8.org/ about a fuzzy window switcher forubunt...
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...
More then 5 years ago I upgraded my PC, to last 5 years. It was not a full upgrade, jus...
Because of the growing problems with wordpress exploits, spam on the comments and that ...
I have been very lacking in blogging lately, so here comes a quick summary:GMPC The bi...
I recently got an avrdragon for a small project.They thought it was a good idea to put ...
In the past 1 1/2 week I have been testing Notes.txt a lot and made a lot of small impr...
I wrote a tiny i3 patch that adds a small separator line between the i3bar and the work...
A Panda been taken down by a Raspberry…
You have no idea how strongly I hate saying this, but raspberry pi is currently better ...
Beside the fact it was an amazingly busy day at work I managed to get the following thi...
Because I have done a lot of little things, I will combine it into one post:GMPCFixed a...
Hanging around in #gtk for a few days, it seems theming is no longer supported in gtk....
An image says more then 1000 words (or something like that): GMPC Gtk+-3.0 Alot s...
Don’t ask me how, but I managed to break the usb break out board of my RFID receiver. (...
My domotica box used to be in a crappy blue plastic box, but that box took a lot of spa...
I have been looking for a (very) long time now for a good todo list, I even wrote my ow...
Pandaboard KaKu control kernel module
I wrote a small kernel module today.It implements the sending part of http://randysimon...
A small script to easily mount remote hosts.Now you can do: ?View Code BASH ...
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...
I got a turbo flame lighter a few years back:Recently it started to get problems, the i...
After my previous post, 11 days (or so ago) this is the latest plot. It still generates...
Given the high temperatures here currently and the fact I have been playing with DS18s2...
Commandline Logging of data: the plotting
If you want to plot something under linux from the commandline, gnuplot is almost alwa...
IfThenElse, Pandaboard and high temperatures.
With the currently high temperatures (30 degrees Celsius outside) my pandaboard in a bo...
I didn’t know this one. Heard it today (out of curiosity I started looking for the orig...
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...
A lot of people do not know this one, but xxd is one of those tiny, incredible useful, ...
An experiment of futility: 3h 20 minutes
Did not make that much progress today, but still something done: Energy Bar: needs som...
An experiment of futility: 2h 30 minutes
Following progress: Niced up graph. (background color, better gradient, glow, text ren...
An experiment of futility: 1h 10 minutes
Send some time on the train working on my little project: Basic GUI, build and source ...
because of work I had very little time for working on my opensource programs. Beside la...
This is a ‘beg’ to the ubuntu people.Please fix this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu...
Squishybox: Squeezebox replacement
My sd card broke down, my cross-build vm gone, so I had to re-do things.pre:configure t...
Compile a cross-compiler for microblaze xilinx
The following script builds a cross-compiler for microblaze-xilinx. Took some time to g...
Energy PointThis is a small tool to parse and display statistics from a youless.See: ht...
Mostly for my archive: (might be userfull for others)Fix a small ‘hick-up’ every 10 sec...
Gnome Wireless PC Lock is a Gnome applet that locks your desktop when you walk away fro...
I have nearly no time to work on it, but I fixed a few things on the train: (dummy data...
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...
something I found very weird in gnome3 that I could not type shutdown or suspend in the...
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...
I fixed my strange libchamplain issue (that you could not interact with the map by usin...
I guess I am guilty of this I guess and on the other hand also often on the receiving e...
Ever since I installed a nice 2 Meter 18W (66 leds/meter) led strip in the kitchen I ha...
I listen to a lot of classical music and hit the problem that often the volume would b...
Let me try to work away the backlog of things I wanted to blog about.The first one is a...
Another run, as you can see it is developing differently here: I always find it fun to ...
EvO – Image vectorization using evolution
I promised to put this code online, so here it is. EvO. A small program that (with very...
I wrote a small tool. in the past day. called IfThenElse (Yes needs a better name).The ...
In git I fixed the multimonitorbackground tool, It will not set the background so even ...
MultiMonitor Background settings.
I got sick and tired of no program being able to set desktop background on multimonitor...
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...
When doing the latest release (11.8) I planned to make another release this month (11.1...
Listen to this one completely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNeWvxWv2o0&feature=...
we read so many “genious” posts, this one might be worth a good read too, it is a bit h...
GMPC release been postponed till tomorrow, I had to build a block hut.. (don’t ask).
Well not really, GMPC is a niche product (MPD client) while banshee is an all round des...
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 ...
I made this account to spam on your forum. Please, delete my account and this topic, ...
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...
Saving power when using MPD.On your laptop battery power is everything? but playing mus...
Because I still prefered my old openbox setup, I switched back from unity to openbox + ...
I am going to change, gmpc will be the first, the versioning scheme I am using.New sche...
I got a new watch recently. Because huge watches are all the rage now, I decided to get...
I have been testing gnome 3 on my (now fixed again!!) 6 year old thinkpad T42p. Looks ...
(near) Perfection happens rarely, but when it does it can be beyond belief. Yes I am ta...
I while back I added a distance graph to gpx-viewer, found it mostly pointless. So toda...
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...
It seems to be faster to rebuild 201000 widgets, then gtk_container_remove() and gtk_co...
I have been testing with the problem in my previous post, *reset_rc_styles_recurse *be...
The GtkVolumeButton has been irritating me for a while now, it is so easy do accidentl...
Took some effort to get everything installed the way I want, but it is operational agai...
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...
Thanks to Elmob, who send me this great little toy.I have yet another MPD box.It is a F...
Dear lazyweb,I am looking for a good system to document my program.The program is writt...
GPX-Viewer is a simple program to view gpx files. It is focussed for viewing files gene...
Riding bike + opengl text issues.
I know, they don’t look related at first glance.. But the thing is this, I starting rid...
Stuffkeeper – Barcode integration
I created a plugin for stuffkeeper that uses libzbar to read a barcode using a webcam. ...
monday morning I called, in the afternoon they picked it up. friday I got it back with ...
I got my hands on a Juli-C400R board. (Specifications) (foto)This is a nice little boar...
Gnome Music Player Client 0.20.0
This release is spit and polish release, on both the gui side: new icon theme (humanity...
Show a list of track points. (see screenshot) Docks, so you ca...
Last few days I have been improving gpx-viewer, a quick list: Support multiple maps (c...
Open ‘gconf-editor’Lookup the ‘apps/metacity’ folder.Open the subfolder “global_keybind...
I managed to break my watch 1 month ago when falling down with my bike riding on a comp...
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-...
Greg (the best!!) who is generously (thank you) hosting my website moved servers. So p...
Stuffkeeper, finally an update
I finally updated stuffkeeper again, this is support for supporting visual links to f.e...
When I use pulseaudio I hear a nice distortion (in left speaker.. strangly enough) of a...
Ali released today another mpdcron like program, it is more advanced, so it is going to...
Last week I tried to improve gmpc performance in the albumview and metadata browser.I w...
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/gnome-music-player-client-gmpc-mpd-just.htmlas a side no...
GMPC now includes some nice humanity icons you get if you switch to the humanity theme....
Why?The squeezebox classic has been something I drooled over for many years. I always c...
I fiddled a bit with the Gpx::Graph widget to make it more flexible. It can now also di...
The mobile phone saga.Last year my abo ended and I could get a new abo with new phone. ...
I have been using it since it was released and I am getting more and more unhappy about...
If your laptop does not turn on anymore, and starts to produce smoke and smells horribl...
Notification area squeezebox controller
I wrote a tiny quick and dirty squeezebox controller yesterday.It sits in your tray, it...
from the lyrics wiki plugin: Unfortunately, due to licensing restrictions from some of...
GPX Viewer 0.0.7 – Beta 2 release
This release fixes some problems with locales. (vala uses the locale dependent strtod i...
Changes since 0.0.5 Configure now checks for valac and valac version. Improved moving...
Added Gpx-Viewer to git here.Added: Added speed/time plot Added autotools build syste...
Images speaks more then a 1000 words.(p.s. it is a downloaded gpx track so the time sta...
I am looking for a good GPS to use for riding a bike.I used a bluetooth gps mouse and m...
I got a massif amount of driver cd’s here. Monitors, motherboards, videocards, soundca...
as I am _way_ to lazy to write propper blog reports.I created an account on identi.caht...
A while back I started “watching” the amount of power I used. I also took it into accou...
This is a re-occuring problem for me, mostly it is suddenly gone, or (because of frustr...
Remembered why I disliked apple
In less then 2 weeks, the ipod touch n ow refuses to sync with itunes.. it hangs on “sy...
It was not my prefered choice, but I got a iPod touch as agenda. The integration with m...
Looking for a good digital agenda
I am currently using the combination of my mobile phone (E78) and my Palm Tungsten E.Th...
Gnome Music Player Client OsX app.
http://download.sarine.nl/GMPC.app.tar.bz2For intel mac, build on osX 1.05.Please test.
[Grind my gears] Notification Daemon
The notification daemon nicely, and quietly, changed the api.* Text is now escaped in t...
Gnome Music Player Client 0.18.0
GMPC 0.18.0From Gnome Music Player ClientChanges sinceAdded features Global copy/pa...
Disaster waiting to happen. Nothing else can be said about this:http://www.thesataswitc...
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...
Yes, that runs debian linux, mpd 0.14.2 and gmpc and uses less then 2W (powered by usb).
I have been working on vala binding for gmpc, so I can use vala to code (new) parts of ...
If you dislike the default (ubuntu) look of notifications fromn the notification daemon...
I tried out, as blogged before, windows 7 a while back. So today I tried running my lat...
I got anew phone recently, because my contract ended and I switched from provider.This ...
Commited a few minor changes to the mserver plugin. So you should be able to play an au...
Memory leaks and Still reachable
==3169====3169== 132,642 bytes in 172 blocks are still reachable in loss record 242 of ...
I wrote a jamendo plugin for gmpc a while back. To get the data I used the json interfa...
Just like I did with windows vista, I downloaded the beta and gave it a try:Downloading...
Ever since I upgraded to a 9400GT card (from 8500GT that overheated) I have weird drawi...
There was a post about a music client that showed all album covers in a huge list. I th...
Spend several hours tonight updating the mediawikis and wordpress. Annoying things you ...
I finally fixed a long standing crasher in the metadata plugins on windows, and fixed t...
For years now I always said that I wouldn’t implement certain things. Because 1. I don’...
Trying to get music on an mtp mp3 player
Well My first thought was: Lets install banshee!.Banshee looks _very_ nice, the music p...
Well my remote control frenzy is almost complete.Using an eee-box + microsoft infrared ...
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...
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...
I have implemented (still very simple) support for encrypted fields. It uses gpgme to e...
Stuffkeeper, Now including vala dependency
I have been added support for configuring fields in a schema. For example you can now s...
I posted this: #540669 bug a month ago. what must I do to get it _atleast_ looked at?
I’ve measured the power usage on my desktop computer:It consists of:2×17″ tft1xusb hub....
I am writing, a slightly pointless, vala plugin to test (and fix) the stuffkeeper.vapi ...
Donation for a new laptop battery.
My, year old, laptop battery is dead. So I cannot code in the train anymore.So I though...
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...
http://musicpd.org/uploads/files/mpd-0.13.2.tar.gzSHA1: 744800e3b667a0d11418029b8ed69f7...
I spend this morning and part of last night working on writing my own “Date” widget.I u...
People still think when seeing “Gnome Music Player Daemon” that gmpc depends on 1002 gn...
I installed ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop last night, and after first boot it told me, that ...
Stuffkeeper, Help with translation
I need some help with the translation of stuffkeeper. 2 questions arise: What is...
StuffKeeper, 0.10.0 test release
After some longer time, a new fancy test-release. This release is the last release befo...
Stuffkeeper, moving to autotools again
Having more and more problems with waf forgetting to rebuilds parts when header files c...
StuffKeeper, new webpage and domain
I registered a new domain for stuffkeeper:stuffkeeper.org
Moving to x86 archlinux didn’t fix the lockups I was experiencing when upgrading to har...
Tip for installing programs outside “default” location
Since stepping to ubuntu, I have the habit of installing stuffkeeper/gmpc/mpd/etc outsi...
Stuffkeeper, Gutsy and hardy packages
I been playing to get debian packages generated, after alot of pain and sweat.But I fin...
I have updated my gutsy to hardy (x86_64).Now I experience random lockups, no idea how ...
In the train today I’ve tested stuffkeeper with 1000 items, just to see how slow it was...
Is there a place I can download a crash-free glade-3. Preferable one that creates valid...
It seems wp-codebox does not work. shame, I would love to see properly colored code.
Stuffkeeper, Preview release 0.08
Ok, very quick this time, but a (stupid) bug makes it a wise thing todo.You can get it ...
By moving some code around, I been able to speedup the startup a factor 3 (0.3 seconds ...
A new preview release is ready.This release futures: Cleaned up interface, most notica...
There was a weird bug in stuffkeeper, only reproducable in archlinux.So I thought, lets...
I’ve implemented html output to stuffkeeper.It parses a template files and generates ht...
This is a testing release for everybody to try:Get it here: download.Compile instructio...
A while back I moved my stereo to the other side of the room. It got to far away to con...
Can I make sqlite delay the writing to the file. I do allot of small writes from differ...
StuffKeeper, now using sqlite3
I spend the whole day today rewriting the backend of StuffKeeper to use sqlite3.It’s be...
Added the following items: Support for icons combined with types. Adding/editing/rem...
Moved my blog to http://blog.sarine.nl and put up a redirect on the old url, I hope it ...
I’ve bought a Microsoft MCE usb infrared transmitter/reciever. (yes I know, ms, but it ...
This page http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction/LowMemoryHacks describes some tricks/ha...
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...
Added support for more formats. (f.e. image) Background saving of modified items. C...
I just realized I never posted the svn repository needed for testing gtodo2.So here it ...
Thanks meek for pointing me to this linkqoute: Also hier könnt ihr dass Hauptprogramm...
Show when a task is due in the tree, beside colors. Remove toolbar. Add buttons to ...
Tag browser, now even more interactive.
Not sure how to explain it, maybe this movie makes it clear:Click here
Onboard audio card, it’s terrible.
On the mpd forum there was a post with some playback problems. The guy posted a link to...
Another Harddisk bytes the dust. (cont.)
I went to the store today, with the receipt, smart-log printout and the harddisk. And a...
Another Harddisk bytes the dust.
My 160gig, with 1/2 my music collection, just died under my nose..If I stack up all the...
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...
A few of you might have noticed, a few hours after releasing gmpc 0.15.5 sarine.nl got ...
I re-enabled (with some trouble and man-editing files) comments on my blog… hope the sp...
Today I could pick up my fixed laptop.It seems that the video card chip got loose from ...
Since mpd is currently low on developers, I decided to (try) to fix one bug in mpd a we...
Yesterday evening, when just doing a quick check, my laptop screen went black.. and cam...
I used to have an old imac for this, but it died.But I got my hand on some new “old” ha...
I have no idea why, but for some reason, deskbar seems to use around 6-12% of cpu const...
Fancy looking Song announcement
Well a pictures sais more then a 1000 words.. So I’ll post a little movie:http://random...
Notification Avant-window-Navigator style
There is a notify-daemon applet for the avant-window-navigator, tonight I spend some ti...
The briliance of the small things
I truely like small things, like the message option that is available if you lock your ...
On the mpd forum:C Programmers Help !`Alright, here’s the beef. I’m basically writing a...
Gtodo2 moving away from GtkTextView
Just a vbox packed with some labels and tables looks allot better
I’ve been playing with vala a bit today. It looks nice, but it is some puzzling to get ...
(continuing) Developing xmacro
I needed a tool that could record, and playback key and mouse presses on linux with lit...
Because of my stolen phone (see prev. post), I bought a new one.A Nokia E50, it’s alot ...
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...
I’ve setup my server (as I posted last time) and I’ve got most setup: Raid 1 for the /...
I’ve finally moved some stuff to my new server, including this blog.http://qballcow.nl ...
http://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist3.pnghttp://random.sarine.nl/gmpc-meta-artist4....
Just a quick bugfix release. I found a memory leak in gmpc that was also available in t...
Well now that mpd 0.13.0 is released. Time to announce my mpd hack of the week.It doesn...
Changes: Support for server side playlist search (and has fall back for when it’s no...
Yet another release candidate. Some smaller fixes, cleanups etc.You can get it here, in...
I tried making a view using GtkIconView, but I do have problems with it..It’s realy slo...
Just a pre-release 1 of gmpc 0.15.Changed: Support for server side playlist search (an...
I wanted todo it for a long time, but always put it off because I wasn’t happy with som...
I just got this e-mail:----------------------------------------------------------------...
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...
It doesn’t matter how I make it, there are always people complaining about how it shoul...
Rather no security then a false sense of security… proven again
Another good example: http://tweakers.net/reviews/683/1
http://mmpc.garage.maemo.org/I still wonder why the artist wasn’t so nice to send me ...
Gtk on windows and icon-theme issues
I’ve recently moved the (some) of the custom images in gmpc to this system: http://live...
I am looking for a nokia 770 to test gmpc on. But I don’t have the cash to buy one myse...
Been playing a bit with recordmydesktop (and the gtk frontend), and this has been one o...
It seemed I reacted a bit pissed, sorry for that, move along nothing to see anymore.
I’ve recently (+- 1 month ago) I replaced my ati X550 (64mb) PCI-E video card with a NV...
I don’t mind april the first jokes. But this is not fun anymore. slashdot has nothing b...
Not only gtk got some tango love. But also gmpc got _some_ tango love last week. But un...
This is just crazy:Caught SpamAkismet has caught 2,013 spam for you since you installed...
Last weekend we discovered a serious bug in mpd, that allowed you to remotely crash mpd...
I am compiling gtk on mac osX, and I see this scroll by….“-DGTK_PRINT_PREVIEW_COMMAND=\...
After seeing this screenshot, and a discussion about how to implement it (clutter, or c...
I’ve wrote a small custom treeview implementation (200 lines of gob code), It takes a M...
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 ...
Task lists… and syncing *update* 2
As posted before I’ve wrote a flat file backend for gtodo2. It stores every todo item i...
< shank> “Please finish your programs before you release them.”< pat> I try...
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 ...
Task lists… and syncing update
I’ve implemented a Flat-File backend for gtodo2 yesterday (and polished it in the train...
Because of lack of time and energy gtodo(2) developement has gone to a grinding halt.Bu...
I need a new batteryQballp.s. I actually had to turn the laptop off because the train a...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve tried beryl today on my laptop.At first it didn’t work, segfaults kind of fun. Aft...
I’ve bought the new album from Norah Jones today: “Not Too Late”Like always it’s a plea...
15:57 < whatah> Also, your blog is boring.15:58 < @Qball> never said it wou...
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...
Hitting the 2k program space, I looked to improve the code size.Realizing that using a ...
Atmel Coding, unexpected errors
An atmel uses one clock, in my case I use an external crystal (if you run a clock on it...
Just a few small remarks:For the atmel, there are allot of open source tools available....
I’ve posted in a previous post that I implemented a clock in the atmel, and that there ...
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 ...
I’ve spend almost 2 hours on the phone with planet.nl (a big isp here), being redirecte...
I’ve took some extra measures against blog spam. I’ve tested it the last few days, and ...
Well, I’ve fixed my pc. Replaced the motherboard.But stupidly enough, this new motherbo...
As (not clearly) posted before, my pc broke down again.This time it didn’t spring back ...
http://wordpress.qballcow.nl/2006/06/22/then-it-works-then-it-wont/Just when you need it.
This is something most more experienced gnome users will know, but today I could actual...
What is gmpc?gmpc, Gnome Music Player Client, is a graphical fronted for the music play...
Looking back in my e-mail to see what posts are recieving the spam comments, 90% is in ...
Fedora core 6 ships gmpc 0.11.2 as latest version.That version is so old, that David (b...
I’ve been getting an awfully lot of comment spam on my blog lately. 20 a day is very co...
This website has allot of nice links, and it’s pretty well organized.Check it out, an...
I use amazon for fetching album info and cover art in gmpc. There been problems with fe...
I’ve did some small test on the config system used in gmpc. (it’s used for the config f...
gmpc libmpd version checking runtime
I’ve had alot of “bogus” bug reports lately, almost all caused by people having to libm...
I’ve spend to much time today getting a new site up for my programs. http://sarine.nl/I...
I am slowly filling the new data in, http://sarine.nl/ (the mysql problems should be so...
To make a more “fair” comparison of gmpc vs. f.e. sonate or pympd. I did another memory...
Another stat, this is pympd, it’s alot slower, so I didn’t take time to skip a few song...
I know it isn’t 100% fair comparison, bu this is a memory profile of sonate connected t...
I did a quick memory usage check on gmpc today, and this is the result I got: (I̵...
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...
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...
I wrote the following plugin for gmpc today, it shows some statistics about the mpd ser...
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...
I’ve ran in the most weird problem with gmpc.Gmpc uses (and provides for plugins) gmpc_...
Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 7
I’ve made another alpha/beta release.Changes: handle destroying of notification tr...
One of my hdd crashed… luckely nothing serious lost, some old backups (now I don’t have...
My new palm connector (yeah, not to connect to a pc, but something else)Made out of a...
Usefull Error messages, Don’t you just love them
z_zone.c:226: Z_Init: Assertion `32 >= sizeof(memblock_t) && (4*1024*1024)...
Wireless PC Lock – Continued 6
A slight warning I should probably make. Wireless PC Lock doesn’t increase security, it...
Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 5
I’ve made the following updates, and the program is now actually usefull: Tell the use...
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...
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...
Sitecom Wireless PC Lock – Continued 2
I’ve made the following changes: If the dongle is unplugged, lock the screen. left cl...
I’ve improved it a little bit further: After some fiddling around, I can now detect le...
I’ve bought (paradigit sells them for 1/2 the price atm) a Sitecom Wireless PC Lock tod...
I have been listening to the following album:It has allot of nice numbers (and off cour...
In my opinion, E. Clapton’s best album.yes I know, this was random .gmpcGmpc is progre...
Since this morning, gmpc has “profile” support.You can now easily switch from one mpd...
I tried out making a screencast with ffmpeg, and gave the best result so far:A small mo...
Virus Virus and yet another virus
I help some people with keeping the pc’s running. A while back I helped with some netwo...
GMPC in example mac-style gtk screenshot
Always nice to see your program pop-up in random places.http://static.flickr.com/97/220...
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...
I know I should write a long story here, about how nice, fancy and fluffy it is… But it...
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...
Nice rendering withouth textview or html widget
Just build out of gtkimages, tables, and vboxes. and only the background uses expose-ev...
I’ve implemented several little, but usefull features in inventory today. Like import/e...
I wrote a plugin for gmpc-svn that users tiles to select albums. It’s pretty simple.you...
sorry for the crappy recording, but had a bit of a fight with it. http://images.qballco...
Cleaned up some more code today, implemented searching. So where almost at the function...
I got a quick and dirty config system in place (using g_key_file_* from glib).And by im...
I did some more work on inventory. It now saves column width, can export to csv, and fi...
Implemented another few options today…Â Like editing an item, changing columns and a f...
Despite the heat (still 31 degrees at 22:00) I took another ride today, 50km this time....
Today I had another bit of bad-bike-luck. I drove to the store on my City Bike, and two...
Permissions, Inventory and torture
Well I start with the torture…Fixed my bike tomorrow (I lost a part Saturday ) and I d...
I am now officially a troll!!I was coding happily along on my fresh arch-install, fired...
I’ve installed archlinux on my workstation.So after I had everything working, I tried a...
Dualscreen on laptop. Ati done something right.
With my Workstation non-functioning, I hooked up my laptop to my KVM. Because I need ...
Yesterday my workstation worked fine.Today, it wouldn’t do a thing. Now I have to find ...
This has been working for a while, but always caused some skipping at the start of the ...
After Jat and me fiddled a bit, we finally managed to cross-compile a plugin for gmpc.S...
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...
I used to have a Creative Soundblaster Live! 24bit external soundcard. It was terrible,...
Vandaag heb ik mijn 20 Hi-Efficientie leds (1cm diameter) ontvangen, en ze geven heel v...
edit: Tip 1: Don’t make blog post when you are to tired to think.Everybody using mpd pl...
Gmpc can now also show artist image, artist biography, album info.A screenshot of artis...
last night my new router crashed again. it happens around once a week. So, slightly irr...
I’ve been playing yesterday and today with GtkTextView. Trying to make a nice “Song inf...
I’ve implemented the changes to the backend as described in my previous blog. It went e...
Testing gnome (and gmpc) on slow hardware
Looking around the house at what low-end hardware I have I could install linux (and gmp...
Solving the speed problems drawing the playlist in gmpc, there are big 2 bottlenecks le...
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...
I did the “fixed-row-height” and now the rendering of the treeview takes (after it’s fi...
Small changes for a polished feel
On my laptop a few small things has changed, realy minor. But it is a huge difference i...
I’ve used the “trick” described by Emmanuele Bassi on the gmpc playlist-model. I’ve bum...
Played around with tinyMCE abit, and I must say it’s incredible. Just a few lines of co...
I hope it doesn’t cause much problems for planet.nl.gnome.org.I must say the new admin ...
One of the songs I realy like (one of those song you can keep on listening too) is: ...
Looking for a solution for this: bug. You would be my hero.Gtkhtml2 is driving me compl...
Since my upgrade to dapper, my C programs that use gtkmozembed, and my python programs ...
I’ve moved my custom tree model for the playlist in gmpc. It went alot smoother then I ...
Kernel update, and my palm now works on my mac mini. And it looks likes my usb->seri...
I’ve read (most) of the books many times….Now I saw this 5dvd box in the store, and I j...
Palm Sync, the story continues.
Yes, against all expectation, I am not done complaining yet.Today I thought “Lets make ...
It worked, no duplicate events, no return of purged items… I don’t know what to say.
First attemped, still single direction, I wrote a evolution to gtodo converter.I’ve too...
It turned out to be so simple I should have figured it out myself….gpilotd uses /prob/b...
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...
It’s there!!! It’s still rough, and it prints stuff like: “Due Today” withouth showing ...
The sage continues, I’ve spend/wasted (again) severall hours on my mac mini.The problem...
Dit some more work on gtodo2 today. I’ve implemented an option I wanted to implement fo...
I’ve bought a scanner yesterday.. It’s a Canon Lide 25. Simple, cheap and works under l...
Mozilla Thunderbird + tango icon theme, moving the layout around a bit, and it’s almost...
I’ve got it (finally) running on my laptop, and I can say nothing more then that it’s v...
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, ...
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 ...
I’ve installed vmware-player on my amd64 today. So I could install a 32bit linux. (Need...
The most fancy and geekish now-playing script on the internet:HereA microcontroller (at...
One of my longest standing bug’s fixed
Today I fixed one of the longest standing bugs….Gtodo crashing when saving to a remote ...
`Today I’ve done some work on the cvs version of gtodo. I’ve fixed one of the most lon...
I said: “Now I (someday) plan to write a custom GtkTreeModel.”That night I couldn’t sle...
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...
I’ve been spending some extra time on gmpc, and I’m down to only 3 tickets left in mant...
As posted yesterday, I redid the whole config system, while keeping completely api comp...
A (long) while back I changed the config system in gmpc. The old system was very nasty....
After I’ve been pointed to a adesklet (mpd2v) for mpd and given it a try. I thougt I co...
I bought a new pc as workstation today, bye bye 1.2 Ghz Amd Thunderbird. Welcome amd64 ...
I got a bit tired of the “ugly” look of xosd, the fonts have rough edges and I like it ...
I know I wrote/blogged about this many time before.But I am still looking for some good...
I know it has a bit of a geek-factor, but I am internetting @ between 120-140 km/h.It’s...
Gnome-blog seems to want the path to xmlrpc.php end on wordpress/xmlrpc.php, not very u...
Just testing out how wordpress is working.I am getting a bit tired of etomite, so I am ...
I wanted to do some work on my website again. At the moment it’s half split between my ...