i know it's bad

This update adds:

-Menu shortcut creation in linux
-About page
-Update on request
-Configurable update site

Basically i just added the icon creation for - lazy like me - linux users and re-worked the update method as a RCP handler.

As usual, just launch jwbfs, it will prompt for an update. Your job is to pick “Yes”

for any bug please go on issues page.
jwbfs homepage

PulseAudio is a nice thing but has some issues.

My soundcard can’t use the passthrough if pulseaudio is enabled. All i can do is as a 2 channel downmix (too bad for a Media Center).

Since pasuspender don’t work for me, i could not find a better solution than create a script  witch kills PA, add a flag to .pulse/client.conf to disable autorespawn, opens a specified program and wait until you close it. Than remove autorespawn flag and relaunch Pulseaudio.

Now my HTPC says thanks and me too:  i can finally play wine games without audio lag.

sooo..

You can get it here:

wget http://www.takethesecoins.it/projects/p4k/0.1/p4k

than move to /usr/bin

sudo mv p4k /usr/bin/p4k

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/p4k

Usage (example with xbmc):

p4k -n xbmc

or

p4k

to write in a popup the name of the application you wish to launch (like playonlinux).

Options:

-h print helps
-n <BINARY>
-i <NOTIFICATION_TYPE/INFO_LEVEL>

• notify = uses notify-send for notifications
• zenity = uses zenity for notifications
• quiet = system out with echo
• silent = no system out

-f application selection via file dialog instead of a text input (if no name [-n] is provided)

Remember that while active you cannot use pulseaudio mixer. Go with alsamixer or equivalent.

I hate dual boot, especially when i do it just for gaming…fuck…cough..you…ATI…cough…

However if you own a decent card …cough…nvidia…cough…your experience with gaming on linux may be better.

Mine is, somehow, not completely bad. Left 4 Dead 2 works via Steam (PlayOnLinux) but has some minor issues:

1) Wine version greater than 1.3.23 and minor than 1.3.33 has this bug.

Pick another one and make Steam use it.

a) Open PlayOnLinux

b) Select “Settings” on top menu than “Manage wine version”

c) In the new popup select a version greater than 1.3.33 (i used 1.3.37) than close.

d) Select “Steam” and press button “Configure”.

e) In the new popup select “General” tab.

f) Select the wine version you downloaded early (minor than 1.3.23 or greater than 1.3.33).

Via WineHQ bug 27779

2) Seem that shader support can cause this. Just disable it.

a) Open PlayOnLinux

b) Select “Steam” and press button “Configure”

c) In the new popup select “Display” tab.

d) Select “disabled” in “ GLSL support” combobox.

p.s this can be done by editing your wine instance registry (it is case sensitive)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\UseGLSL -> “disabled”

Via WineHQ bug 27453

Tested on:

• S.O. Ubuntu 11.10 (x64)y
• ATI Mobility HD 5470 (Catalist 11.12)
• Wine version 1.3.28

And remember: this is not a flu.

If you really need VST or any ASIO related application on linux the solution i simple:

WineAsio

“WineASIO provides an ASIO to JACK driver for WINE. ASIO is the most common Windows low-latency driver, so is commonly used in audio workstation programs.”

I created a little guide to install via deb file.

Install Wine and Jack:

sudo apt-get install wine jackd qjackctl

Install WineAsio

A) deb file:

Download  and install this package

wget http://www.lucamazzilli.it/downloads/wineasio_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i wineasio_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

B) from source:

Install dependencies

- if you are using jack 1

sudo apt-get install libjack-dev

- if you are using jack2

sudo apt-get install libjack-jackd2-dev

Download and extract

wget http://leaseweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wineasio/wineasio-0.9.0.tar.gz

tar -zxvf wineasio-*

cd wineasio

search google for asio.h (file:asio.h) than copy to your source folder and:

make

sudo make install

if you get an error like this:

luca@pc:~/wineasio$ sudo make install
if [ -d /usr/lib32/wine ]; then cp wineasio.dll.so /usr/lib32/wine; else cp wineasio.dll.so /usr/lib/wine; fi

just copy wineasio.dll.so on the correct folder in old fashioned way:

- 64bit

sudo cp wineasio.dll.so /usr/lib32/wine

- 32bit

sudo cp wineasio.dll.so /usr/lib/wine

register wine library

regsvr32 wineasio.dll

Configure Wine to use alsa and jack

winecfg

select audio tab, than pick Jack Driver and Alsa Driver

Install some cool stuff like EnergyXT or Reaper.

On some optware systems transmission randomly crashes due old version of libevent installed.

It can be solved with 3 easy steps:

if you don’t have nano installed:

ipkg install nano

1) then edit the script:

nano /opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission-daemon

2) add this to the first line of your script:

EVENT_NOEPOLL=1; export EVENT_NOEPOLL

mine looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for transmission

EVENT_NOEPOLL=1; export EVENT_NOEPOLL

CONFIGPATH=/YourPath/config

case $1 in
start)
# update blocklist
echo “updating blocklist”
cd ${CONFIGPATH}/blocklists
if wget -q -N –tries=3 –timeout=10 http://update.transmissionbt.com/level1.gz
then
if test -f level1.gz; then
rm level1
gunzip level1.gz
chmod go+r level1
fi
else
echo “Error $?. Blocklist NOT updated.”
fi

# start transmission
echo “starting transmission”
nice /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g ${CONFIGPATH}
;;

stop)
if [ -n "`pidof transmission-daemon`" ]; then
echo “stopping transmission”
kill -9 `pidof transmission-daemon`
fi
;;
restart|force-reload)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;

*)
echo “usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|force-reload)”
exit 1
esac

3) then start transmission-daemon

/opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission-daemon start

happy downloading!

L’influenza intestinale porta noia e la noia porta aggiornamenti.

- Multi disk support (fino a 6 path)

- Nuova UI con salvataggio della perspective

- Thread principali ora gestiti da Job

- Bug fix

Erano mesi che mi riproponevo di dare una botta di spugna su questa applicazione. Finalmente ho trovato il tempo per “disaccoppiare” un po delle porcate che ci avevo scritto e visto che c’ero, ho aggiunto il meccanismo di update nativo di Eclipse RCP, in modo da poter gestire meglio la risoluzione dei futuri bug.

Link al sito per il download (win, linux, mac).

Essendo lei già presente nel db delle poste, i suoi dati anagrafici sono stati agganciati, presentandole la finestra già compilata.

Chiaramente i dati sono quelli corretti, ma non per il form:

Ticket aperto presso le poste.

Risultato: 20 giorni di inutile attesa.

alla fine ho notato una cosa…

• Nome
• Cognome
• Sesso
• Codice Fiscale

sono campi protetti e non modificabili (agganciati dalla loro anagrafica).

• Stato
• Provincia
• Data di nascita

sono delle combo selezionabili e modificabili (agganciati dalla loro anagrafica).

Dulcis in fundo “Luogo di nascita” è un testo modificabile precaricato dalle poste (anche questo modificabile)…ma ha un milione di spazi aggiunti a cazzo (gratuiti).

Tolti quelli il form torna a vivere.

Lunga vita ai trim!

Per chiarezza, questa è la pagina a cui mi sto riferendo.

With Ubuntu 10.10 due to some changes to lirc and its modules, my harmony remote (with MCE codes) stopped to work with lirc_imon module.

I decided to try to use imon module and IMON codes and follow the new way of lirc: Linux input layer.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

on “Remote Control Configuration” select:

Linux input layer (/dev/input/eventX)

on “IR transmitter” i picked none.

on “Custom event interface for your dev/input device: ” open a new shell and run:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

you will face somethig like this:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=15c2 Product=0038 Version=0001
N: Name=”iMON Remote (15c2:0038)”
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.0-6/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-6/2-6:1.0/rc/rc0/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd mouse1[B] event5 [/B]
B: EV=100007
B: KEY=fff 0 0 400000 108c0320 2d50082 0 0 30000 4 119000 4196 14100801 809e1680 0 2000000 10004002
B: REL=103

select the event you want lirc to listen, in my case:

/dev/input/event5

after this try

irw

and check if it works.
my device prints something like:

000000008001001c 00 KEY_ENTER devinput

since my remote declare himself as “devinput” i had to edit Lircmap.xml:

sudo gedit /usr/share/xbmc/system/Lircmap.xml

Add this to the xml and can change the keys following your taste.

<remote device=”devinput”>
<pause>KEY_PLAY</pause>
<stop>KEY_STOP</stop>
<forward>KEY_FASTFORWARD</forward>
<reverse>KEY_REWIND</reverse>
<left>KEY_LEFT</left>
<right>KEY_RIGHT</right>
<up>KEY_UP</up>
<down>KEY_DOWN</down>
<select>KEY_ENTER</select>
<pageplus>KEY_CHANNELUP</pageplus>
<pageminus>KEY_CHANNELDOWN</pageminus>
<back>KEY_BACKSPACE</back>
<menu>KEY_MENU</menu>
<play>KEY_PLAY</play>
<info>KEY_COMPOSE</info>
<skipplus>KEY_NEXT</skipplus>
<skipminus>KEY_PREVIOUS</skipminus>
<volumeplus>KEY_VOLUMEUP</volumeplus>
<volumeminus>KEY_VOLUMEDOWN</volumeminus>
<mute>KEY_MUTE</mute>
<power>KEY_POWER</power>
<title>KEY_PROG1</title>
<display>KEY_ZOOM</display>
<tab>KEY_SCREEN</tab>
<home>KEY_EXIT</home>
<backslash>KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS</backslash>
<myvideo>KEY_VIDEO</myvideo>
<mymusic>KEY_MEDIA</mymusic>
<mypictures>KEY_CAMERA</mypictures>
<mytv>KEY_TV</mytv>
<subtitle>KEY_SUBTITLE</subtitle>
<language>KEY_LANGUAGE</language>
<one>KEY_NUMERIC_1</one>
<two>KEY_NUMERIC_2</two>
<three>KEY_NUMERIC_3</three>
<four>KEY_NUMERIC_4</four>
<five>KEY_NUMERIC_5</five>
<six>KEY_NUMERIC_6</six>
<seven>KEY_NUMERIC_7</seven>
<eight>KEY_NUMERIC_8</eight>
<nine>KEY_NUMERIC_9</nine>
<zero>KEY_NUMERIC_0</zero>
</remote>

Aggiornando VirtualBox alle nuove versioni ho notato che in fullscreen alcune funzionalità di Compiz come “Scale Windows” non andavano più.

Il problema è legato al fatto che la virtual machine quando è in fullscreen acquisisce automaticamente le combinazioni dei tasti (alt+tab e ctrl+alt+canc, ctrl+shift+alt+quelloCheViPare) e le invia alla virtual machine a meno che non sia premuto il tasto “HOST”.

Questo blocca i comandi di Compiz anche quando associati ad un angolo dello schermo, dato che in realtà eseguono un evento tastiera (combinazione di tasti)… di conseguenza se siamo in fullscreen questi eventi non fuoriescono dalla VM, e col cazzo che vengono intercettati dall’HOST.

Seguire lo splendido screenshot per rimettere tutto apposto come prima:

cliccare su:

“File” —> “Impostazioni” —> “Inserimento”

e deselezionare il check evidenziato.

Ora tutti i comandi che compiz lancia come eventi tastiera dovrebbero funzionare, primo fra tutti Scale Windows (Scala finestre).