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Evolution with RSS (redux)

Posted in Posts, tagged , on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »

Today I learnt about a RSS plugin for Evolution, thus making standalone feed readers uneeded for me. Kewl

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Evil C

Posted in Posts, tagged , on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »

Just letting you know about evil C programming language constructs. My favourite one (involving preprocessor-abuse, of course!):
/* Test whether compiler supports C++-style comments */
#define HELPER 0//**/
#define CPLUSPLUS_COMMENTS_SUPPORTED (HELPER+1)
More posts to come… someday! I am pretty busy lately

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Perfect «Suspense» (with a Vaio TZ11MN/N)

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »

Maybe you already know about my trip throught all the oddities with the suspend to RAM feature with GNU/Linux running on my Vaio TZ11 notebook… yesterday I was able of workaround one of the things which was annoying me in the last weeks: the X11 Intel video driver was frozen after coming back from suspend! [...]

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Virtualization extensions with a Vaio TZ11MN/N

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »

For some bizarre reason the silly people working at Sony decided to disable the Intel VT extensions by default. But hackers are always smarter than stupid salesmen making decisions in some random department of a Enormous Big Company™: there is a way to re-enable VT extensions.
Big FAT warning: I have only checked this with a [...]

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Update on Gentoo r5u870 packaging

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »

This is a small update on where to find the driver for the Ricoh r5u870 webcam properly packaged for Gentoo GNU/Linux. This driver is needed in order to use the webcam present in some HP Pavillion and Sony Vaio (including my TZ11) laptops.
If you have read my previous post, you already know it: the hard [...]

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Cadenas

Posted in Posts, tagged , on February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »

No sé ya cuantas veces van; pero no me canso de repetirlo: las cadenas de correos electrónicos no funcionan y no sirven para nada. Cuando llegan a mi, todas las cadenas se acaban sin excusa, lo cuál implica que, por mi culpa:

Al menos 57 sudafricanos han muerto, por causas diversas.
Tendré un mínimo de 236 años [...]

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How-to: Download videos from mms:// URLs

Posted in Posts, tagged , on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Quick recipe, which needs a GStreamer installation with the libmms plugin:
$ gst-launch-0.10 mmssrc location=mms://put.your.url/here \
! filesink location=output.file
I have just discovered today that GStreamer has support for the mms:// scheme in URLs. Nice

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Mejore su Vista

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Bienvenido, soy el doctor Kenji (拳児), y en esta sesión vamos a cerciorarnos de que su Vista funciona correctamente. Por si acaso vuecencia no se fiase de un médico extranjero proveniente de lajanas tierras asiáticas, haremos uso de los «buenos» consejos de una conocida empresa americana. Para que su Vista se comporte de una manera [...]

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Feed redirect

Posted in Posts, tagged , on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »

A while ago while watching logs in order to debug a little CGI-script I am coding for ezmlm I noticed some feed readers were trying to access the old URLs. I added a permanent redirect in my Nginx configuration file. As an interesting side effect, now Planet GPUL is catching my feeds again
Just [...]

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C: Trick or Treat?

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »

One of the things that amazes me about the C programming language is that you can always
find something new: it teaches you to be humble about your programming wizardry. Today I have found two new mind-melting techiques which can cause serious brain damage:

Duff’s Device: speeding-up tight loops by unrolling and using a switch statement [...]

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