yet another draggy weblog

hey folks!

i’ve had a problem … a lot of pdfs! and i wasn’t really amazed about using a2ps (wanted multiple pages on one sheet), because of not proper configuration. so i’ve searched for another solution to merge my 60 pdf documents. here i found the solution in one ingenious command:

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf *.pdf

so long and thanks for all the fish

hi folks!

i’ve had a problem with java, netbeans and my ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 system. so, i’ve decided to start my vmware and install a 32bit system – facing another problem: vmware-tools, in particular the mouse and filesharing.

searching for solutions on the web, i found those two sites:
http://www.csi-labor.de/archives/52-Howto-Vmware-Tools-Installation-unter-Ubuntu-9.04.html
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/207410

in short: you have to patch the vmhgfs module and if you are using the gcc-4.3 also the vmware-config-tools.pl script. everything else please read by yourself.

wish you happy compiling

hi folks!

finally i initiated an update … but there were some problems:

• lost the possibility to start the “run application” over the alt+f2 shortcut
• lost the main-menu alt+f1 shortcut
• no ctrl+alt+bkspc shortcut anymore

so, i started some research action on the www …

• this page gave me the first hint, but i have had to change following line “event.data.l[1] = (Time)0;” to following “event.data.l[1] = (Time) time(NULL);” to get a auto-focused window!
• no solution yet for the main-menu (tried to fix metacity, but without success)
• all the other things found on this page!

happy fixing!

hi folks!

i’m a little bit angry. angry about proprietary software. especially products you need for your hardware, which were not cheap. i’m talking about my iphone and the software is, yeah you know it already, itunes. i’m not willing to be forced to buy a proprietary operating system for a free tool (itunes) i need to communicate with the purchased hardware (iphone). so i’ve decided to try my best with wine. i’ve heard that wine has solved its teething troubles and it’s now ready for the big world. hehe, you wish … but here the whole story and all my steps to my spoilage:

first i’ve tried the easy way, installing wine from the repository. so i wrote this to my sources.list:

• deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt intrepid main

now a simple “apt-get install wine” was everything i need to start up. “download the newest itunes and install it”, was my next thought. but hey, that would be to simple. and for true, “wine iTunesSetup.exe” went completely wrong. the installation process didn’t even really start, and i got the message “the installer encountered errors before itunes could be configured”!?

so it was necessary to gain on some useful informations. this howto [1] helped me to find older versions of itunes. on oldapps [2] i tried some of them. till to the version 7.7.1 i had no success. but this version has no remote function for the iphone, and my first intention was not fulfilled. back to the start.

so i searched at the winehq homepage for more hints, and i found a patch for the current wine version [3,4]. this patch should permit the installation of the newest itunes. after downloading the sources of wine [5], applying the patch and installing all development packages for compiling [6] i’ve started the compiler … i was curious, really expecting the best. but everything turned out differently. it was really odd, the installation process finished successfully, but after executing itunes for the first time – surprise, surprise – there were no icons!!! no play-icon/button, no small icons at the left sidebar, no buttons, nothing. so i tried to change the configuration of direct3D (winecfg), but nothing happened – again no icons appeared!

i’m gutted … … welcome back, dear vmware!

[1] mini howto – itunes on ubuntu
[2] oldapps
[3] itunes8 on winehq
[4] itunes8.1 on winehq
[5] github wine
[6] building 32-bit wine on a 64-bit system – the easy way

bin heute in der früh zufällig über diesen artikel gestolpert … die aussies vom zdnet haben auch eine coole strassenumfrage gestartet. hier das video dazu:

really annoying!

have you ever seen this failure on a ssl connection? after a couple of times its really boring to refresh the site again and again and again … and some POSTs never get to the server here i found the source of the evil. and here the solution i took … for a fast go!

thanks for the fish!