Archive for 2017
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/10
I’ve had success transferring files for off-line usage on OS X using FileZilla connecting over FTP to my Humax.
Playing with MPlayerX was a bit troublesome as sliding through the resulting media file over commercials is hard.
VLC player has come a long way and plays the files a lot better (the audio gets less out if sync with the video/subtitle).
In addition: VLC on Mac OS X supports DLNA – basically a superset of UPnP – well (at least version 2.2.4 does): start with Universal Plug'n'Play to view any devices, then click on the little triangles in the list to open any new level.
A few tips on streaming:
- Do not play other content on the Humax itself: the device and operating system are simply not well enough designed to do deliver multiple streams without jitter at the same time.
- Try to avoid recording on the Humax while playing: the Humax will prioritise recording over playback.
- Ensure the Humax is on wired internet: the Humax 150N wireless adapter has bad antennas and can’t keep up even in good WiFi conditions (even with a great 802.11n access point next to it: it never reaches the 150 megabit IEEE_802.11n-2009 data rates).
- Try to have your Mac on wired internet as well.
- Ensure any firewalls allow DLNA / UPnP traffic
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/09
Interesting as it has steps for both OpenSuSE and Debian each well suited for running on a Raspberry Pi.
[WayBack] MX Backup – Postfix Email Server | samhobbs.co.uk
It seems postfix is a lot easier to configure than sendmail so I already like it.
First I need to read a bit more in Postfix greylisting.
I’ll need to catch up on Sam’s other parts with the postfix tag as well:
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Debian, Development, Hardware Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, sendmail, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/08
The paths are on a standard Windows 7 x64 machine installed on the C: drive. More recent versions of Windows should use the same place.
I’ve not been able to verify this in a domain situation with roaming profiles and redirected folder paths. If anyone has info on that, please let me know.
Anyway, I’ve made some the constants into a table:
One day I might find time to make this table more complete.
Until then, the code is somewhere around theses pieces of code:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/08
No more issue reporting: tohosokawa/rst-preview-pandoc: reStructuredText preview in Atom using Pandoc
This is a very useful Atom.io package, but it has one big issue: when you close a preview window then re-opening it, the settings are restored to the default -frst -thtml --webtex ones.
As I’m an Atom.io n00b, I need to dig into this another time.
Notes:
I want the defaults to include --standalone --toc --toc-depth=5 or at least --standalone --toc.
For now I’ve hardcoded them.
–jeroen
Posted in atom editor, CoffeeScript, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/07
Learned a few things when modifying https://github.com/gkotian/gautam_linux/blob/master/scripts/colours.sh
Note: `printf` supports emitting `ESC` (ASCII character `\033` aka `27` aka `0x1B`)as `\e` the same way that `echo` does
https://linux.die.net/man/1/printf
https://linux.die.net/man/1/echo
Format strings are at https://linux.die.net/man/3/printf
%-10s means left adjusted (aligned) string of length 10
–jeroen
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I was investigating how the colour definitions on my OpenSuSE system actually work internally so I added some extra output: ${TYPE} and ${COLOUR}.
Source: Show type and colour definition in addition to the rendered colour. by jpluimers · Pull Request #5 · gkotian/gautam_linux
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/07
A well worth long rad:
We all recognize emoji. They’ve become the global pop stars of digital communication. But what are they, technically speaking? And what might we learn by taking a closer look at these images, characters, pictographs… whatever they are 🤔 (Thinking Face). We will dig deep to learn about how these thingamajigs work. Please note: Depending on your browser, you may not be able to see all emoji featured in this article (especially the Tifinagh characters). Also, different platforms vary in how they display emoji as well. That’s why the article always provides textual alternatives. Don’t let it discourage you from reading though! Now, let’s start with a seemingly simple question. What are emoji?
[WayBack] You, Me And The Emoji: Character Sets, Encoding And Emoji – Smashing Magazine
Via: [WayBack] Everything you ever wanted to know about characters, encodings, glyphs… and, oh yeah, emoji: bit.ly/2fNKeW3Long, rewarding read. – Ilya Grigorik – Google+
Here is just the ToC:
TABLE OF CONTENTS LINK
- Character Sets And Document Encoding: An Overview
- Characters
- Character Sets
- Coded Character Sets
- Encoding
- Declaring Character Sets And Document Encoding On The Web
- content-type HTTP Header Declaration
- Checking HTTP Headers Using A Browser’s Developer Tools
- Checking HTTP Headers Using Web-based Tools
- Using A Meta Element With charset Attribute
- An Encoding By Any Other Name
- What Were We Talking About Again? Oh Yeah, Emoji!
- So What Are Emoji?
- How Do We Use Emoji?
- Character References
- Glyphs
- How Do We Know If We Have These Symbols?
- The Great Emoji Proliferation Of 2016
- Emoji OS Support
- Emoji Support: Apple Platforms (macOS and iOS)
- Emoji Support: Windows
- Emoji Support: Linux
- Emoji Support: Android
- Emoji On The Web
- Emoji One
- Twemoji
- Conclusion
–jeroen
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I’ve had success transferring files for off-line usage on OS X using FileZilla connecting over FTP to my Humax.
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