Author Archives: Tsukasa

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The fool's herald.

Dxtory: Another great Direct X/OpenGL capture program

As you might be aware, I’m a big fan of programs like Fraps or Gamecam. Especially Fraps is a great tool, it works as a FPS benchmark, video capturing program and… no, that’s it. Gamecam has a similar set of … Continue reading

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Meeh

Yesterday I mucked about MonoDevelop, part of my reasoning being MonoDevelop presumably failing while compiling my perfect, non-errorous Vala code. Shame on me, though: The blame is entirely mine, respectively my inability to check first and whine later. So, what … Continue reading

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Heresy! Rhythmbox may actually…

Heresy! Rhythmbox may actually replace Amarok on my desktop – it just works, syncs my iPod nano 5g and is not as sluggish as the wolf.

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Firefox’s plugin crash protect…

Firefox’s plugin crash protection is awesome, see //bit.ly/9JMpv6 for details and //flashcrash.dempsky.org/ for great justice!

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Using ZFS through ZFS on FUSE …

Using ZFS through ZFS on FUSE 0.6.* for my LX home directory now. First impression: pretty nice , the former abysmal performance is history.

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Ordered a bunch of new NICs fo…

Ordered a bunch of new NICs for my systems, the mixture of Marvell and nvidia MCP is horrifying, especially when bonding adapters.

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Rebuilt Cairo, Fontconfig and …

Rebuilt Cairo, Fontconfig and Firefox for nicer subpixel hinting/smoothing with fonts. Really worth the effort :3

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Love it how sky2 and forcedeth…

Love it how sky2 and forcedeth both fail me… sky2 keeps oopsing and forcedeth won’t let me change the MTU. Time for a new Intel NIC. >_>;

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TCP Defense Mode keeps hitting…

TCP Defense Mode keeps hitting me in snv_132, gotta wait for 133 to upgrade… constant lockups of my NFS exports are somewhat bad…

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Another way to solve problems …

Another way to solve problems with shared printers not being shared: Pulling them into a VM and sharing them through Windows. Ugly but works

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Wowzers, @Wuala sent a CooKey …

Wowzers, @Wuala sent a CooKey //bit.ly/arpTnG – really slick device and even fits my overcrowded keychain. Thanks a lot, people :3

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Can’t put it in words…

After months of using Archlinux on my system I just want to say three words: Thank you, Debian! I can’t put it in words but using Debian is just such a gratifying experience; the vast amount of packages and the … Continue reading

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CoreAVC 2.0 is out! Can’t wait…

CoreAVC 2.0 is out! Can’t wait to try it out (still waiting for upgrade mail…).See //bit.ly/7wzoKd for changelog…

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Fixing Mplayer’s wobbly legs on Arch

Courtesy of this forum post I had to rebuild Mplayer to prevent crashes when jumping through files. As I am quite devoted to vdpau I didn’t test whether this is a general issue or not… Fixing it is rather easy: … Continue reading

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FLV Embed Modification

I love Yaosan Yeo’s FLV Embed WordPress plugin. In fact, while here on TnH I use a variety of plugins, on my new site it’s exclusively FLV Embed. Now, the plugin ships with an old version of JWPlayer that doesn’t … Continue reading

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