Spam: The other white meat

I generally use linux as my development environment and use OSX for everything else- all of my Mac hardware has always had issues running Eclipse- whether it is Java that is the memory and CPU hog or it is compiling all the dependencies for FFmpeg, I just have not found OSX to be suitable for my main development needs (though I do mange on my laptop).

Moving my office back home this month, I realized I would be faced with four monitors on my desk, something akin to having having a serious mission control look, which while amusing, feels way over the top for me. So I started scheming about how to just keep two monitors while having OSX for my daily tasks and linux for my work.
I contemplated doing a a dual dvi KVM switch with a USB video card for my laptop, but two problems arose with this- one, I use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which can only pair with one machine at a time, making the switch back and forth challenging, two, this was going to cost upwards of $400 US which I was not really prepared to spend.

I use a little command line script to work with my Drupal modules. Some people like other tools like Drush, or some of the other update tools that are available. What I wanted is something that could pull down new versions of modules from CVS and check them straight into SVN. This is a small script that I use to do this- it has options to just download from CVS, update a module to a new release, and check your changes into SVN as well. I modified it a bit for public use- your millage may vary.

The trick to making the drupal xspf playlist module more useful is to allow other modules to interact with it. This includes letting xspf know that it can use files from other areas, setting thumbnails, and so.

I wrote two new hooks for xspf playlist which let other modules get into the game:

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By arthur on 2007.09.10
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• Drupal
• Planet Drupal

The Media Mover suite of modules has just gotten better with some improvements that I just released to the XSPF Playlist module. Media Mover now offers an end to end process for accepting media to getting it live on a Drupal site and integrating it with a flash video player.

In switching over from Mandrake, one of the things that I've been missing the most is ripping cd's on the desktop to mp3. After upgrading to Hoary, this is actually pretty easy. Yes, I know that I could just rip to ogg format, but many mp3 players (ahem) don't support it. So mp3 is the desired goal.

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By arthur on 2005.02.22

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If you're installing Ubuntu on a machine with an IDE cdrom and an SATA hard drive, the following information will be extremely helpful.

Stollen from here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440

1. boot up installer as normal
2. Choose Language
3. Skip to tty2 by hitting alt-F2
4. do:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-generic.ko

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By arthur on 2005.02.06

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Ok so some more expermimentation with css. I think I just can't admit that pure css is a good idea for design. With a simple table structure, all the fun of css can be neatly displayed in a reasonably cross browser format. Given how absurd the browser situation is if you don't use fire fox, well, tables save my butt. I'm surprised, but I have noticed that there are some differences between layout on windows firefox and ppc linux firefox. I don't think that there should be, but Jason and I often note that there are.

I finally got arround to installing gallery back on my account. I've been meaning to work on a collection of images that I've been hoarding for some time. Actually I just wanted to put them in an accessible place and this seemed like a good bet.

http://red.eggplantmedia.com/~arthur/gallery/

yep. rebuilding the kernel. again. what fun! now its back to 2.4.20-ben1 as seen here. If only i can get kde3.1 installed i will finally be done with this project. Little fun things to know about:

apt-get install kdeutils-laptop

very important for ibooks.

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