June 2006 – Kasperian Moving Parts

Kludge Around Google Firefox BrowserSync Error

Wednesday June 28, 2006

So, yes, I’ve joined the Borg once again and have started playing with Google’s BrowserSync Firefox extension. I decided to import all of my old Opera bookmarks and then (silly me) expected BrowserSync to be able to feed them all up to The Borg Collective (I mean the main Google server). What I kept getting was a very naughty little error message that was the opposite of helpful: Error ‘-1Unexpected error’ Riiight. So, I found this newsgroup posting and following the following steps, some of which also complained with unhelpful errors, but in the end, it seems to be working now. it didn’t work :\ but i have anouther Possible ‘FIX’! so i will call it Possible ‘FIX II’! just Read more…

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BlueMithrandir the Blue Xweetok

Monday June 26, 2006

Oh yes. Ph34r m3!!!

Google, Linux

Google Video Player For Linux

Friday June 16, 2006

Got your attention, did I? I run Linux on my Apple G4 Powerbook, which means that I don’t have the luxury of such niceties as… oh, I don’t know… FLASH!?!?! So I was happy to find that even though I can’t view Google Video’s Flash-based movies, I can easily enough still play them on my G4 Powerbook running PPC Linux. I whipped up a very simple and quick little script for it, as follows: #!/bin/bash PLAYER=kaffeine INFILE=$* TMPFILE=”/tmp/$(basename $0).tmp” echo “got->${INFILE}< -... going to work..." cp "${INFILE}" "${TMPFILE}" URL=$(grep 'url' ${TMPFILE} | sed 's,url:,,' ) ${PLAYER} "${URL}" I then saved in in ~/bin/google-video-player.sh and chmod +755’d it. I then clicked on the download link on google video’s pages, told Konqueror Read more…

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Current Mood: Contentical

“Contentical” as in “pretty okey dokey with how things are going as of late” that is. My beautiful children and bride are sort of settling in in our new home. My bride is making some friends here and there, as are my kiddos. There is reportedly a homeschooling luncheon/picnic/get-together thingey tomorrow that we’ll be partaking in!! We have a Father/Kiddo thing going on at church this Sunday. And we’ll be joining in on the church July 4th picnic celebration thinger 2 weeks following that. Feels good to start getting involved with and meeting people again. Despite having to pay $250 recently to get a Terminix contract going on our new home (I’d like it if carpenter ants don’t destroy the Read more…

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Amarok 1.4 and Why You Should Care

Monday June 12, 2006

Amarok 1.4 has been released and all I can say is WWWWOOOOOOOWWWW. This release is amazing, guys. I’ve been waiting for it to show up in my kubuntu updates list and it hasn’t, so tonight I hunted a bit and found this announcement showing how to get it for dapper. As I type this, I’m transferring 1.4G to my iPod nano, and it looks like it’s going to also transfer the album cover artwork along with it. Kick butt!!! For those who have been living in a hole for the last few years, amarok is an absolutely amazing and free music manager that uses the Qt toolkit, and is thusly available for Linux, *BSD, OS X, and probably Windows too, Read more…

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SuSE 10.1 Online Sources

Thursday June 8, 2006

Just installed 10.1 on my work laptop yesterday. I have an IBM ThinkPad T42, and it doesn’t look like XGL is going to work for me on that. Bummer. That’s some of the reason that I went through this upgrade. =:/ Just found this helpful link for finding SUSE 10.1 online package installation sources, and am upgrading KDE from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3 now (yay!). Reason behind this was that there’s an annoying little buglet in KDE PIM 3.5.1 which shifts all of my appointments off by 5 hours (basically a time zone bug) that I believe was fixed in 3.5.2.

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The Importance of Not Getting Bit While Digging Up Rocks

Sunday June 4, 2006

So, as a prelude… you may think of it as something very important to learn in life… if ever you are planning on digging very, very, very large rocks out of your New England back yard, be sure to cover yourself head to boots in mosquito repellant. Otherwise, you will assuredly find yourself covered in more bug bites than you care to count. I mean, honestly, what kind of stupid mosquito bites you on the ears??? How much blood can possibly be up there anyway? Blah. Death to all mosquitos!!! Okay, so in other news, I’ve finally gotten back to coding a bit on kpilot. Feels good. Real good. =:) Granted, all that I’ve gotten accomplished so far has been Read more…