mamiya 7 ii from hong kong ebay seller etefore / HK supplies

After getting the camera with a defect shutter magnet, which costed me eur 100+ to get repaired at the local mamiya center they seller dont wants to pay that amount AND says that i broke the lense … WTF? browsing through the sellers ebay history i found some other negative ratings for exactly the same camera and problem and the seller not taking back the item … so maybe bette a get a used camera locally …

firefox tab behaviour in opera

i switched back to opera after using firefox for some years, after researching a bit in the opera forums i modified the tabs and their behaviour to my needs:

• under preferences | advanced disable show close button on each tab and set Cycle Without Showing List as cycle method w/ ctrl+TAB
• i want to make the next tab to the right active after closing the current one so i changed ctrl+w shortcut to Close page & Switch to next page; optionally you can add a custom button right at the tab bar by editing your toolbarxyzt.ini and adding Button6, “Close”=Close page & Switch to next page,,,,”Caption Close”" in the [Document Toolbar.content] Section

gentoo emerge libstdc++.la cannot find …

ok, did a emerge world, upgrading gcc from 3.4.6 to 4.1.2, then got errors about not finding libstdc++.la, what to do? there are a lot of results on the web, but most dont help it seems

there are several situations, check what the path of the non existant file is (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.la) 3 possibilities:

• wrong arch (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), there is a new directory in /usr/lib/gcc/, run fix_libtool_files.sh -oldarch x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
• wrong version (3.4.6), run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.6 (old version here, not new one!!)
• path is right, just libstdc++.la is missing, you probably upgraded from something below 4.1.1 to something up, in between the .la file was removed because its not needed anymore (read that somewhere), so what to do? i dont know, i just took libstdc++.la from my old install and edited … well it works at least

good luck

The Best Word Book Ever – Evolution

A flickr user took the time to compare the 1963 edition with the one of 1991, have a look to see what has changed. interesting

Frink

Let’s say you wanted to fill your bedroom up with water. How much water would it take? Let’s say your room measures 10 feet by 12 feet wide by 8 feet high.

10 feet 12 feet 8 feet -> gallons
552960/77 (approx. 7181.298701298701)

Frink is a totally practical calculating tool, check out the other samples on the website

amarok – linux audio player

  installed amarok and played around, except that its a rich gui – which i usually try to avoid it seems awesome, last.fm support, very cool, also some real nice features like dynamic playlists

another feature is synchronization with mp3 player, so you can eg. create a dynamic playlist with your favorite songs (highest play count) and sync those to your mp3 player (=mountpoint in my case)

there is also musicbrainz support – which isnt so nice for mass tagging, actually there is no mass tagging :/ will try to find something the next days..

mamiya shutter release magnet repaired

ok, got cam back from service,  euro 110.- for replacing shutter release magnet in the 80/4 lense … hmm could be worse, but since its a brand new cam it sucks though

ebay seller asked for copy of repair invoice, if he will pay at least 50% (55.- eur that being) i will be happy and i will give him positive feedback, if not i will rate negative?

would that be rude? – since he offered me to send it back, but i didnt want to pay for shipping and wait so long …

ethical dilemma maybe

fuck ftp because ftp sucks

ftp sucks, not because of being plaintext etc, also because of clients not being able to do recursivly forced deletes like rm -rf on any unix …
i always liked ncftp, not anymore, just installed lftp, …

lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> ls
drwxr-xr-x    4 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 17:34 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 25 15:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x    3 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 18:10 extensions
drwxr-xr-x    9 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 17:34 pivot
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> rm -r -f *
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> ls
drwxr-xr-x    4 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 17:34 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 25 15:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x    3 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 18:10 extensions
drwxr-xr-x    9 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 17:34 pivot
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> lol
Unknown command `lol'.
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> rm -r -f pivot/
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> ls
drwxr-xr-x    4 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 17:34 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 25 15:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x    3 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 18:10 extensions
drwxr-xr-x    9 ftp      ftp          4096 Sep 29 17:34 pivot
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> lolwtf
Unknown command `lolwtf'.
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> help mrm
Usage: mrm
Removes specified files with wildcard expansion
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> oh cool wildcards
Unknown command `oh'.
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> rmr *
Unknown command `rmr'.
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> mrm *
Usage: rm [-r] [-f] files...
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> mrm? rm? lol
Unknown command `mrm?'.
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> mrm -r -f *
Usage: rm [-r] [-f] files...
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> wtf
Unknown command `wtf'.
lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog>

am i stupid, i mean i know, but why in this case, if any of the 86,435 subscribers of m blog can help me, please do so

ALSA audio samplerate converter

hi friends, spent some time to set up audio stuff today

i wanted to try amarok, seems to be a nice GUI audio player by default it uses xine as a backend – but sound stuttered. also when just calling xine binary directl, setting audio.synchronization.force_rate to 48000 in ~/.xine/config helped but seemed not to affect amarok, anyways, after some reading i found out that there is an alsa plugin in that uses libsamplerate to convert the rate, how to do it:

• install libsamplerate
• install alsa plugins (gentoo: USE=”-libsamplerate” emerge alsa-plugins)
• edit .asoundrc

there are different algorithms, different cpu-usage/quality

pcm.HQ {
	type rate
	slave {
	pcm "hw:0,0"
	rate 48000
}
converter "samplerate_best"
}

so you can for example set up high quality converting for music and low for system sounds etc or use defaults.pcm.rate_converter=”samplerate_best” to set a global default

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=47591 ( interesting thread comparing different converter alogrithms )

Media Defenders

haha, if you don’t already know about it start reading here

http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/

spent some time to browse through the leaked emails which are for example available at:

http://www.mediadefender-defenders.com/

funny