Category Archives: Blog

Bleh

Posted on 2008-09-01 by Tsukasa

Seems Defensio kind of blocked more than I initially intended by simply crashing and throwing all comments down the pipe. Until the problem is sorted out, I’ve simply disabled the plugin completely. Sorry for the inconvenience. On a bright note: … Continue reading →

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The Tale of How

Posted on 2008-08-31 by Tsukasa

An incredible beautiful video. I’m a sucker for things like that 🙂 .

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New nVidia Linux driver speeds things up

Posted on 2008-08-20 by Tsukasa

The end of the world must be near: nVidia released a new version of their GNU/Linux driver that fixes some of the annoyances regarding RENDER performance. Given you apply some manual adjustments to the configuration the new driver performs in … Continue reading →

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Fixing the “null” date problem in WordPress

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

If you’ve been a constant reader of my blog (and of course I know you are 😉 ) you could hardly have missed the ugly “0” date in the archives. Turns out that this 0 date was caused by all … Continue reading →

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Making Cygwin portable

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

One of the very packages I always install when I have to work with Windows is Cygwin. Being able to use my beloved GNU tools really makes things easier. Often I don’t have the option to install it. I grieved … Continue reading →

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Building recent Mplayer SVN + CoreAVC For Linux

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

As Michael points out there’s a slight problem with the CoreAVC For Linux patchset that enable Mplayer to take advantage of CoreCodec’s h.264 decoder — with recent changes in the sourcecode the old build_patch.pl script doesn’t produce usable output anymore. … Continue reading →

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About music

Posted on 2008-08-14 by Tsukasa

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

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Wuala goes beta, Badges to celebrate

Posted on 2008-08-14 by Tsukasa

Along with the public beta of Wuala there’s also a new website. Aside from the plethora of new information, a feature to install/launch Wuala straight from the browser and mucho polished bling, Caleido offers a few badges to advertise Wuala … Continue reading →

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K kk kk K kK

Posted on 2008-08-10 by Tsukasa

The internet makes you stupid.

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Nice global environment variable additions

Posted on 2008-07-26 by Tsukasa

Since my vacation is coming to an end I thought I’d leave a nice little trick on how to administrate a number of environment variable additions for all users on the system. Sure, there is the /etc/environment file but it … Continue reading →

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Building Qyoto from SVN

Posted on 2008-07-20 by Tsukasa

Lately Qyoto won’t build because of a rather minor issue in the code. Basically it references itself in kdebindings/csharp/qyoto/src/SmokeInvocation.cs on line 20, so be sure to comment this line if you want the build to succeed.

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A bunch of cool things

Posted on 2008-07-13 by Tsukasa

So far, this weekend has been a great one. Met a bunch of old pals again, fixed some long-due problems and even got something productive out of it! The first cool thing is that Plasma does work correctly now. Yes, … Continue reading →

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Using twhirl on Linux – the nice way

Posted on 2008-07-09 by Tsukasa

Without any doubt twhirl is the greatest twitter client available. It’s an Air-based application – meaning you can even use it on Linux. Now, as you may know KDE 4.1 comes with a handy little twitter client plasmoid itself but … Continue reading →

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Boring

Posted on 2008-07-08 by Tsukasa

Lupin thinks this blog needs more posts. Unfortunately there’s so much interesting stuff going on that the little time I have doesn’t suffice to satisfy err… bla. Part of the reason I don’t post much is that …this WordPress installation … Continue reading →

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Favourite not-so-obvious features

Posted on 2008-06-26 by Tsukasa

They are near. Features that you wish you had. Often a function is implemented in a not so obvious way or you just don’t know about it. I dare to call them the “not-so-obvious features”: KWin (KDE’s great window manager) … Continue reading →

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