Magnus Määttä

Setting Logitech mouse speed

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2010-06-20T14:33:19Z

I've a Logitech MX518 and the cursor was moving too fast..
It took some googling before I found out (again) how to make the mouse move slower..

The solution to the problem is called lomoco.



$ apt-get install lomoco

$ lomoco -8

This will make the mouse have 800 DPI resolution and makes it a bit slower compared to
the default 1200 DPI.

I also set USB mouse polling a bit more frequent:

/etc/modules



usbhid mousepoll=5

Server upgrade again

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2008-11-02T17:58:30Z

Ok, so I haven't written anything here for a "few" months. But I'm currently upgrading my server again.
But this time I'm doing a bigger physical upgrade too.

New server:
Opteron Dual-Core 2.2GHz
4GB RAM
160GB sys disk
3TB RAID-5 data space

It's running Debian Lenny and currently I've moved the webserver and database to the new server.

Server upgrade

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2007-05-16T22:18:41Z

Server is now running Debian Etch (4.0).

When upgrading I didn't do a regular upgrade for a few reasons..
Continue reading "Server upgrade"

First run of new UTamarok!

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2006-09-02T04:53:38Z

I'm happy to report that my forked amarok now loads and runs.
It have its own config files, save dirs and modules etc so you can still have amarok on the system and it should load up just fine.

Patch didn't get that big:



-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209K Sep  2 06:52 ut3.patch

It's based upon current SVN for now. I need to do some minor fixing, like making the damn icon work for it (the one that should show up in kicker!). I'll post updates soon

Really pissed off now at amarok

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2006-08-31T22:08:02Z

So I got really pissed off now at amarok, or rather, the devs.. I had to make a bug report and it quickly got marked as WONTFIX. So I've decided that I will make a fork of it sometime in the future.

Continue reading "Really pissed off now at amarok"

Removing daap and ruby crap from amarok

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2006-08-31T20:36:40Z

So the tards developing amarok want to stuff ruby and other crap down my throat. I went to the official channel on Freenode and told them the configure script is mising an option to turn off some "daap" crap I don't need or have any use for and that the configure script was broken, failing if ruby isn't available (as it's only really used during compile of "daap" anyway).

Continue reading "Removing daap and ruby crap from amarok"

Updated infoplug 0.3 hack for amarok [1.3.7/1.4.0-svn]

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2006-01-07T04:54:29Z

I have updated the infoplug hack some and made patches for amarok 1.3.7 and 1.4.0-svn (current trunk).
I fixed a bug which made it show current time in minutes:seconds instead of hours:minutes:seconds when the time was 60 minutes or more..
Also, Last Played have now been added.

1.3.7
1.4.0-svn

Only 1.4.0-svn version have been tested. Second chunk for app.h is different for 1.3.7 and it applies with some fuzz, hopefully it will compile too! =)

Isn't unreadable code fun ?

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-11-04T15:22:36Z

How much fun can you have with the tenary operator ?
Well, since you can do stuff which wouldn't otherwise be possible for variable variables, it allows for much fun!
Just have a look at this "beauty"!



<?php

class test
{
    public function test1()
    {
        echo "Inside test1()\n";
        $this->{(($c=(ob_start()?(debug_print_backtrace()?false:(($bt=ob_get_contents())?(
ob_end_clean()?(($bt=str_replace(array('->','::'),' ',substr($bt,strpos($bt,"#0  "))))?(
($bt=substr($bt,0,strpos($bt,'(')))?(($bt=sscanf($bt,"#0  %s %s"))?trim($bt[(($bt[1]==NULL)?0:1)])
:false):false):false):false):false)):false))?substr($c,0,(strlen($c)-1)).($c{(strlen($c)-1)}+1):false)}();
    }

    public function test2()
    {
        echo "Inside test2()\n";
        $this->{(($c=(ob_start()?(debug_print_backtrace()?false:(($bt=ob_get_contents())?(
ob_end_clean()?(($bt=str_replace(array('->','::'),' ',substr($bt,strpos($bt,"#1  "))))?(
($bt=substr($bt,0,strpos($bt,'(')))?(($bt=sscanf($bt,"#1  %s %s"))?trim($bt[(($bt[1]==NULL)?0:1)])
:false):false):false):false):false)):false))?substr($c,0,(strlen($c)-1)).($c{(strlen($c)-1)}+2):false)}();
    }

    public function test3()
    {
        echo "Inside test3()\n";
        $this->{(($c=(ob_start()?(debug_print_backtrace()?false:(($bt=ob_get_contents())?(
ob_end_clean()?(($bt=str_replace(array('->','::'),' ',substr($bt,strpos($bt,"#1  "))))?(
($bt=substr($bt,0,strpos($bt,'(')))?(($bt=sscanf($bt,"#1  %s %s"))?trim($bt[(($bt[1]==NULL)?0:1)])
:false):false):false):false):false)):false))?substr($c,0,(strlen($c)-1)).($c{(strlen($c)-1)}+2):false)}();
    }

    public function test4()
    {
        echo "Inside test4()\n";
    }
}


$test = new test();
$test->test1();

PHP scripting for Irssi

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-10-29T15:36:29Z

The other day, as the only user of php-irssi (if there's anyone else using it please make yourself known!), Wez asked me to check if it compiled against latest PHP cause someone had some problems with it. It compiled fine but most scripts didn't work, well, anything that actually did something didn't work. It turned out to be a signature change related to objects in the PHP_5_1 branch that caused some problems.

It should be fixed now, so if you want to be cool like me and write your IRC scripts in PHP, get php-irssi now!



$ cvs -d:pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository login

Enter phpfi as password

$ cvs -z5 -d:pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository co embed

Updated the xmms-infopipe like hack for amarok 1.3.2

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-10-09T20:21:43Z

I have updated the patch again, fixed a bunch of bugs.. It should just work now!



$ tar -xjvf amarok-1.3.2.tar.bz2

$ cd amarok-1.3.2/amarok/src

$ wget http://novell.stoldgods.nu/~magnus/amarok/1.3.2/infoplug.patch

$ patch < infoplug.patch

$ cd ../..

$ ./configure ...

Funny blog post by Terry Chay about PHP and security

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-08-11T21:44:47Z

Best part:
"What sort of loser came up with the term enterprise anyway? No doubt it was some hapless biz-marketing closet trekkie geek."

Here's the link.

Updated the xmms-infopipe like hack for amarok

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-08-11T15:20:21Z

I have updated the hack and the new files can be found here:
Patch
infoplug.cpp
infoplug.h

Put the files in $source/amarok/src/
and then run



$ patch -p0 < infoplug.patch

Original post.

Had to reinstall firewall + workstation

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-08-11T15:13:58Z

After I upgraded to baselayout 1.12-pre-something on my firewall and workstation, I had to reinstall my machines (using Gentoo). I guess I could have chroot'ed and manually reinstalled a good version of baselayout, but I choose to reinstall my workstation.

The plan was to fix my firewall right after that (I still hadn't rebooted it yet so it was running). Unfortunatley the firewall was rebooted and I had to reinstall that one too since I hadn't fixed so single user mode worked through serial.

So Internet have been down here for a week (I was lazy =).

Happy birtday PHP! And goto stuff..

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-06-08T05:19:14Z

Today PHP turned one tenth of a century old!

Here is the announcement for PHP 1.0.
I still remember some of my first experience with PHP, 2.0-something. Just a few flashes mostly. Coded some stuff in ASP and JSP for a few years before I came back to PHP around version 3.0 or something like that, I'm not exactly sure. Used some more ASP, got burned by it and moved along to a more mature PHP 4.something.something.

In unrelated news, I created a new goto thread - another monster. It's waaaay too long and it's mostly comments like "goto is baaaad!! Spaghetti code!! Me no like!" and responses to that. A very few replies which actually brings up technical problems or standpoints. I would say 80% of everything in the thread is just personal opinions.
But what I don't understand is why we who want to use it and can use it wisely should be refused to have that option.

Here's a patch by Sara: goto_5.1.0.diff
And my rework of Sara's old patch: opcode_goto_5.1.0-3.diff
I would recommend using Sara's new patch instead of my reworked patch of her old code.

I bring you some sad news

nospam@example.com (Magnus Määttä) — 2005-06-03T03:12:19Z

Today I have some sad news.. In the fireworks comming out from one of the PSUs in my alpha I have now declared it dead. I tried my best, cleaning you, swapping PSU slots for the working one, but it was too late.. Three times is the number of times I have revived you from the dead, moving CPUs and memory around, cleaning you.. Why, ohh, why did you leave me now ?

I want to thank you for the good times we had together, installing different version of Tru64 on you.. Reinstalling Tru64.. Learning Tru64, mounting your SCSI disks..

So you see, it's with great pain I had to declare you dead, 03:20 (24h clock).

My alpha

1996 - 2005-06-03

Rest in peace.. wiping tears