Stream Divx/xvid from linux to your xbox 360
For everyone of us who use ushare to stream video from our linux box to the xbox 360 it is common to see an annoying message telling us that the file could not be played because a bad codec.I have...
View ArticleMsn-prpl Slp Refactor
I have been chosen to refactor the SLP module of the MSN-prpl as my Google Summer of Code work. This module have not been touched since ages, if you read it closely it's clear that it's a hack over a...
View ArticleImplementing new architecture in msn-prpl
Split SLP modules:The first thing needed was to move SLP code to where it belongs. Every high level calls like requesting a msn transfer, an user display and stuff to the upper layer of the stack...
View ArticleNew SLP stack working
Note: This post was wrote 2 months ago and never published, my bad.After some bug squash, I finally got p2p transfers working. I have tested sending and receiving custom emoticons and display pictures,...
View ArticleMerge Plan for MSNP16 and SLP
As you know I have been working on a refactor for the SLP code on the msn-prpl for libpurple as part of my Summer of Code. Before I started this project I have been working on adding support for...
View ArticleUse ImageMagick to convert a set of images
While reporting my experiment output from LTSpice I need to save the plots I get as wmf (because it's the only supported image format in this software) then change the format to png to be easily loaded...
View ArticleMSNP16 and SLP-rewrite merged
I have just pushed the revision that merges my MSNP16 and SLP branches to the main development branch in pidgin. I'm very happy to have this branches merged since they represent almost all the code I...
View ArticleSplit large LaTeX files
When your paper/report is getting too large it becomes a little complicated/frustrated to maintain it in one big file.It's possible to split a big .tex file and setup a hierarchical file tree with a...
View ArticleSimulating mixed language HDL using VCS
I needed to port some modelsim do files to this new simulator so I found out that the documentation available is not as friendly as I would like. Finally got to get the simulation working and I want to...
View ArticleLibpurple in GSoC 2012
Libpurple was accepted in the Google Summer of Code this year 2012.I urge every student reading this to apply for any of the projects accepted and if you like, apply to Libpurple.We have a set of...
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Bad blocks whatcha gona do when they come for you
This is an horror story about a hard drive failing and keeping my data away from me.This post got a lot bigger than what I expected, TL;DR: Broken HD, testdrive + fsck will save your data from broken...
View ArticleMoving from single HD to RAID1
Well after thinking all was good and working, during the week again I started to see the same error messages at boot. That is wrong.So I decided to get rid of that HD once and for all.The original plan...
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