Vista Service Pack 1. I put music on, walk away and come back a while later. My screensaver is active. I click the mouse once to deactivate it, and what happens? Audio playback skips.
Vista Service Pack 1 Audio: Fail.
P.S.: I can’t help but notice that everything I write about Vista tends to the negative. About the only positive thing I can say is that It’s quite pretty.
After many years, finally GNOME, KDE, and legacy applications can co-exist without attempting to kill each other everytime one of them needs to make use of sound for whatever reason.
I feel good.
Thank you Ubuntu, thank you pulseaudio.
Heron comes with all sorts of newfangled stuff including PulseAudio support. This is very nice, but there’s something that not everyone seems to be aware of — PulseAudio and Flash 9 don’t work together by default. You’ll have to install libflashsupport to get audio working in Flash:
sudo apt-get install libflashsupportBest part of all this? Flash audio mixes in perfectly with any other audio without the usual hickups :)
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu’s new release — Hardy Heron (8.04) and I am impressed. From start till end it seems so much more polished than anything else I’ve tried (including Windows Vista).
From the new File Operations dialogue to the weather applet/clock/calendar integration it all just fits together so well. One thing in particular which I really like is this:
All this while it’s required the use of apt-spy or trial and error testing of repository speeds (Australia’s awesome on Streamyx^WSlowmyx) it’s nice to have automated tests against 200 mirrors. I can actually use the GUI tools rather than falling back to the CLI all the time…
Of course I’m sure there are niggling issues, especially for the laptop users among us. Thankfully I don’t have to deal with that pain yet :P
Much like jhall’s problems with the office 2007 trial, I downloaded the Office Standard edition 2007 Trial. Now, on the website it has this to say:
Trial programs contain the same functionality that you get when you buy the perpetual versions — but only for a limited time.
Well, something is seriously wrong with their activation process because even after activation, and getting an expiry date (sometime in July), I couldn’t do anything but view files, email etc.
How can they get something like this wrong? This is a really bad experience for anyone evaluating Office 2007 for their company (like I am).
Update: Well, it works now. Uninstalling it and reinstalling fixes the problem. Same thing on another machine. This is most odd. I quite like it so far though…
If you use a high resolution display, like me you might find your eyes starting to water as you read all these trendwhore websites that use tiny tiny body fonts, like Verdana at 10 pixels. I’ve always solved this by Ctrl + Mousewheel up or down, but doing that for each and every site is a tad bit tedious.
Enter No Squint. I’ve fallen in love with it. No Squint allows you to select a default zoom level (I chose 110%, a slight bump up) and also remembers if you changed the zoom level while browsing a website. So now pages with ridiculously large fonts, or ridiculously small fonts are tolerable.
The best part? I’ve not noticed it at work except that my eyes are less tired now.
Thank you Jason Tackaberry. You did a good job on this one — so much so that I had to add a new category to this journal to post this in: Brilliance.
Anyone managed to get Outlook to do email threading (like we get in Thunderbird etc.) at all with IMAP?
Despite following several guides online, enabling threading on my IMAP server, reading the help etc. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it works. Sigh
As taken from the CodeIgniter website:
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks
I must say that after looking through the documentation, watching the introductory screencasts and then experimenting with it myself, it really does live up to it’s claim of real-world thoughtfulness. CodeIgniter flexible and clear when it comes to the MVC pattern, and all through the tutorials I never once felt that I didn’t quite understand what was going on. Even reading the documentation, it’s all amazingly well explained.
I’ve so far not felt mystified by something in the framework, and haven’t yet had to ask any questions on the forums of IRC channels — something I’ve had to do numerous times with CakePHP, a similar open-source project. This of course isn’t to say that Cake is bad, but good documentation is king when it comes to programming.
Overall, the first impression you get when you run CodeIgniter is that of confidence. This is of course the benefit of having a commercial entity backing a project — little things like the documentation that typically don’t get done with a non-commercial project get taken care of.
Best of all? CodeIgniter comes with a license that qualifies as ‘Open Source’.
Lookout CakePHP, you may have the major portion of mindshare right now, but CodeIgniter is a serious contender.
As most of the Linux world already knows, Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” v7.04 was released a couple of days ago. So being the good early-adopter that I am, here’s what I did to upgrade:
apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade to update my Edgy Eftvim /etc/apt/sources.list, a dash of VIM magic, :s%:edgy:feisty to make APT look at the new stuffapt-get dist-upgradeNone of that GUI nonsense. I’ll use my command line damnit!
Was it worth the upgrade? Well, there aren’t any blindingly obvious new features on the KDE side of things, unlike the GNOME folks who are at this very moment raving about drop shadows and compositing I’d imagine. It certainly feels more evolutionary than revolutionary, which is how I like it.
I have noticed a few new versions of things, like Amarok — got a few new buttons to play with, some fancier TreeViews with album art in it etc. I’m sure more stuff will show up in the next few days as I actually use the system.
So far only two things have gone bad:
I moved over here from my old domain (denial.loose-screws.com) and after installing WordPress and using it for a bit realised I should’ve imported all the content from my old website before I added content here for a few months.
Anyhow, when looking through the import options available to WordPress, I found an RSS feed one. So I set my RSS feed on the old installation to 500 entries (way more than I had) and fed it to the importer. Less than 30 seconds later, I had ALL my old content, complete with categories available… Talk about no-hassles.
WordPress team you did a wonderful job with it. Thanks.