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This is a quick patch I whipped up to bring funpidgin to debian’s pidgin.  Applying is pretty simple:

apt-get build-dep pidgin && apt-get source pidgin

cd pidgin-2.4.1

wget http://www.deftly.net/25_fun_pidgin.patch -O debian/patches/25_fun_pidgin.patch

./debian/rules binary

dpkg -i ../*.deb

Just make sure you remove the previous version of pidgin prior to installing the patched version - just for good measure

I get pretty mad at things like darwin ports / fink - I just don’t like having three versions of perl… things like that .. So I compile packages for myself.. Hopefully you can find them useful as well.  Here are my version of wget and nmap for OS X:

wget-1101

nmap-460

Cheers,

Aaron

I have rebuilt the SynergyKM package created by Lorenz Schori - Upgraded it for 10.5 xcode compatibility and modified the installer.  Next I will attempt to bring it to synergy 1.3.1  Here is the link : SynergyKM 1.0

Cheers!

Managing multiple *nix machines can often be a pain in the arse.  Backups are a must.  I have written a basic backup script to meet my basic needs.  It uses ssh and rsync, is capable of using ssh-agent - allowing for passphrase / phrase-less key usage ( handy for making it run out of cron ), runs pre/post operations - good for db backups.  It is not supported, and will only chaged when I need changes :D!

The entire setup, including example pre/post scripts can be found here. If you find it useful, feel free to send me a comment or suggestion ;).

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Pretty much the best thing in the world…. ever… I couldn’t resist changing the cutsie music to be… better

Android is awesome, simple and elegant..  Perfect for the iPhone ( at least the hardware )!  Maybe, someday, the iPhone will have a dandy SDK that will allow for awesome integration, more simplistic interfaces and better __insertsomethingthatshouldbebetterhere__.

Bastards.

I recently purchased a PlayStation 3! When I booted it up I noticed the “Find Media Server” option. This got my juices flowing. I always have to connect my laptop to the TV when I want to watch movies from my network share ( I use samba to distribute them to the many computers at my house ). This gets very annoying, especially when using WiFi.

Enter Media Tomb, a UPnP ( Universal Plug and Play ) media server! MT is pretty easy to configure so I won’t go into that here.

So now I have a functional media server, presenting all my media to the PS3! GREAT! EFF! Wait… None of the movies play… SIGH.. I quickly pulled out the PS3 owners manual and checked for compatible video formats. Alas one of my ~70 movies where in the correct format.

Enter mplayer faac ffmpeg bc MP4Box x264 and Jarkko’s nifty script! On Debian, installation of the of the needed apps couldn’t be simpler apt-get install XXXXX and wham you are done and ready to transcode!

Mac OSX, however, is a different story.

First you need to have Mac Ports along with the following ports: wxWidgets libtheora spidermonkey freetype openjpeg faad2 XviD ffmpeg faac x264 . Once you have all the listed applications installed, you can start building GPAC ( this is where you get MP4Box ).

Building GPAC:

First off we need to set some variables so everything knows about the headers and libraries for the ports we have installed.

export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/local/include"
export CPPFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig"
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="$ACLOCAL_FLAGS -I /opt/local/share/aclocal"

Now build GPAC with ./configure --prefix=/opt/local && make && make install. As long as you have your $PATH setup correctly everything should be in place for you to convert your movies!

This album is the first music I feel I actually own. Radiohead gave me the option of what to pay for it, left it untouched by the confining hands of DRM, and gave me the easiest most cost effective method of collecting it.

Hats off to Radiohead, hopefully more artists will follow this path!