log of Logfish.net

Why logfish.net? Well, I ran through the freedict dictionary and brute-forced my way to a new dictionary word with not too many letters. Also it has "log" in it, so I thought that was cool.

For historical reasons, I decided to just copy the dict.org defenition and make sure it is kept here for all to see.

In the old days, Linux fans where not able to see the M$ video streams, and although it is still a problematic format downloading it has become easier.

What you need is: gstreamer, totem-gstreamer and all the good, bad and ugly plugins for gstreamer (not sure which the mmssrc plugin is part of)

Doing small experiments with databases will almost always make your disk-activity led flicker like it needs to be replaced. However, all that disk activity is not needed as most computers nowadays have enough memory to store even a 100Mb of experimental random data.

Using a memory based SQLite database is not always doable as you may have to share it between different languages and processes. The easiest and most general solution is to create a small disk in memory which you can use to store whatever you want. Here is how...

The Ubuntu MOTU team has brought out some video's on YouTube. Want to see geeks tell you about packaging? Here is how to download them all.

If you ever encounter one of those old APE files, you should consider either recoding it to FLAC or simply cut it up and put it into a lossy OGG container. Here I will go through the command-line steps to do that last option.

Say we start off with these files:

There are actually video's on YouTube which will guide you into becoming a Master of the Universe (in the sense of Ubuntu packaging that is) and you can download them by installing youtube-dl:
sudo aptitude install youtube-dl
and then downloading and executing the attached script. Happy viewing!

I havn't writtin the iterators yet, but below is a simple class wrapping a GDBM database allowing you to store Boost serializable objects in the file on disk. Usage is pretty simple:

If you want to turn of your computer form the command-line, doing a simple sudo sh -c 'poweroff' is nolonger really an option. The problem with this command is twofold: it will kill everything and you need root privileges for this.

If you want to turn of your computer without root privileges, you can do so using the privileges that gdm has (the login manager). If you are running a GNOME desktop you should use gnome-power-cmd.sh shutdown. You can give other commands to gnome-power-cmd.sh, running it without commands will tell you so.

The attached package contains the datafiles for lgeneral. They where created using the instructions from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435317 and then packaged into a package. I don't think this is in anyway related to the platform, but if it doesn't work, try the ubuntuforums method (after uninstalling this package)

There is a new firewall, which is probably going to become the Ubuntu standard firewall configuration system. It's called ufw, which stand's for uncomplicated firewall. The script allows you to easily add rules to the already in kernel iptables firewall system and makes sure rules are saved and restored on reboot.

First install the firewall with:

You might also want to change /etc/default/ufw and add add the netbios_ns line so you can use samba: