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Comment on Slow SSH Logins on CentOS 5 by Mirko

Mirko — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:10:03 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Comment on Canvas Art and Data Visualization by Dominic Baranski

Dominic Baranski — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:51:25 +0000

Thanks Rob

The front banner is a WIP written with the processing-js JavaScript library. Really just toying with the new technology (I still have to be IE friendly). But for some quick fun with canvas (HTML5) you should check it out!

As for Prezi offline. Here’s a quote from their website:

Exported prezis are supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X operating systems and no additional software is required, not even Adobe Flash Player

It’s included in the free version, although there are other features available with a bit of $$.

Comment on Canvas Art and Data Visualization by Rob McIntosh

Rob McIntosh — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:04:03 +0000

Very cool new front banner.
Prezi looks interesting, but there’s the problem of what to do if the presentation room doesn’t have Internet access? Is there an offline presenter?

Comment on SRCDS Linux auto-update fix by Guest

Guest — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:07:08 +0000

update() {
PWD=`pwd`
cd ..
updatesingle
cd $PWD
}

Nice work so far, except you forgot the backticks around pwd.
It will do fine with backticks, but won’t work without.

Explanation:
Backticks will make the shell (I think bash is used) to execute the command between the ticks and write the output into PWD. Without it would degrade to a pointless copy variable content from undefined variable, causing the error as described.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.10: HAL .fdi files replace xorg.conf by Guest

Guest — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m afraid I must agree that this is the WRONG PATH!!! I HATE Windows because things like configuration are hidden in a thousand little dark corners and handled by a wizard that is supposed to know how I want my system to work. Problem is the evil little troll has his own agenda and now rather than go to the xorg.conf file and read a TEXT file and make adjustments I need to first FIND a file full of cryptic markup tags and then try to get the settings the way I want them. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, after I make said changes I now have to reboot for the changes to take effect.

Congratulations! You have taken a giant step toward turning the solution (I’ll clarify here, since the folks who decided to abort xorg.conf seem to be pretty clueless, LINUX) into the problem (clarification again, WINDOWS).

Comment on SRCDS Linux auto-update fix by Dominic Baranski

Dominic Baranski — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

lol, it’s all right.

I actually have another solution as well that might take care of having two separate files and the need to check them for updates individually.

Create a “patch” with the updated code in it and run the patch on every update..

update() {
PWD=pwd
cd ..
updatesingle
patch srcds_run updatefix.patch
cd $PWD
}

The only downside (that is probably fixable with a > /dev/null) is every time the patch is run it creates a “rejected hunk” file for patches that were not applied.

I’ll probably update the posting with the patch sometime soon.

Hope that helps!

Comment on SRCDS Linux auto-update fix by Guest

Guest — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry, repeated the note…
OK, 03:30 local time, i beg your pardon…

Comment on SRCDS Linux auto-update fix by Guest

Guest — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Copy the file “srcds_run” to “srcds_run_fixed”.
Steam will leave it alone and you have an working copy.

Anyways must check from time to time, if srcds_run is modified.

Again, using a regular expression to replace stuff within an executable is very keen and likely to cause unexpected results.

Comment on SRCDS Linux auto-update fix by Guest

Guest — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It will cause steam to install the whole game again within the orangebox-directory (for dod:s) and then run the still unpatched version from ..!

Although Valve does many stupid things with srcds, this one is on purpose.

Anyways, if steam verifys the integrity of the files it will delete that “patch”. Using perl to defeat the integrity check is stupid at best. The approach described using backticks with pwd will do fine and you won’t need a cron.

Interesting approach nevertheless but way off course.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.10: HAL .fdi files replace xorg.conf by LtWorf

LtWorf — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah no more .conf editing!!! Now we have .fdi editing!!!
And as Linus says: xml is not text-file.