January 2011
12 posts
HTML5/canvas Countdown banner for Ubuntu 11.04
I’ve based the code on David Laurell’s submission for the Maverick countdown banner. Full credit goes to him for the idea for this update.
Original: http://daverix.net/maverickcountdown/iframe.html
I’ve tidied up the code and have fixed a couple bugs with Firefox rendering. The gradient has been changed, countdown date has been reset, url added and of course the version...
Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database →
webfonts example code →
Video for Everybody! →
<video width="640" height="360" controls="controls" autoplay="autoplay" preload="none">
<source src="http://static.expressionengine.com/201007/video/ee_marketing_video_small.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="http://expressionengine.com/images/201007/video/ee_marketing_video_640x360.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
<object width="640" height="360"...
unable to execute /bin/rm: Argument list too long
This is the solution is to find and process the list, replace .ext to whatever you are trying to delete
find -name "*.ext" -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm
Free WebM, mp4 converter →
Chrome 10 removes H.264 support
“We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing our investments in those technologies that are developed and licensed based on open web principles. To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM...
Greasemonkey nightly for Firefox 4 →
[Problem]Unknown Device: Intel(R) ICH10R LPC... →
E:\Drivers\SixEngine\Acpi64\WIN7
Ubuntu drivers for D-link DWA-160 A2 (ar9170usb) →
“Using latest compat-wireless solved the issue for me, so you can try it:
1) download compat-wireless 2010-09-12.tar.bz2 from http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6/
2) unpack it
3) make
4) sudo make install
This should do the trick (if your problem is the one I suppose of course)”
See also
http://wiki.debian.org/ar9170usb
Ubuntu 64bit - Install Adobe Flash Player "Square"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer
Decibel Audio Player →
Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL) audio player for GNU/Linux. It is very straightforward to use thanks to a clean and user-friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome and follows the Gnome HIG.
Decibel Audio Player is built around a highly modular structure that lets the user disable completely the features he does not need. A disabled feature uses absolutely no memory...