Thanks to photos of my trip to Eastern Finland a few days ago I got the motivation to fix fpgg to handle images with arbitrary aspect ratio. Until now there was a problem with images with other aspect ratios than 4:3 and 3:4.
Permalink | Comments (0)I hardly do any travelling in Finland, except for travelling 400 km North to see my parents in Tervo maybe two, three times a year. While I have already filled my quota, my wife have been talking about going to Juuka to visit her father's childhood home -- the place where she had spent countless summer days in her childhood. Since her father was going there, we decided to take advantage of free transport, and to kill two birds with one stone. For the next five days we would be seeing Juuka, Koli, and Tervo. This time I would also take my wife's old camera with me.
I will spare you the details about our little trip, and suggest you take a look at the few photos I have selected to put online. Nothing special there, just some scenes of Finland in summer. It's a rare occasion you know. :-)
Permalink | Comments (0)While developing Woclema I had to run web-browser remotely over SSH. My first choice, Iceweasel, a re-branded Firefox, is already running with my account on the remote host so it's out of the question. Dillo and links(2) doesn't support CSS so they're out as well. Opera? Mostly fine, but all Qt-themes I've seen are either hideous or rely on heavy graphics -- and as such, are network-intensive. Do I really have a choice?
Suddenly I remember by "old love", a browser I never really used, but liked nevertheless. NetFront. It's not a perfect solution, but does the job fairly well. It supports most of the stuff you'd expect a browser to support, but it's not perfect. The UI of Netfront SDK for Linux is not something you'd like to use as your primary browser, and it renders pages such as Slashdot incorrectly. But still, it's very useful for purposes like mine.
Being back from work and Olympic sized swimming pool near my apartment, I did a quick run of Iceweasel, Opera, NetFront and Dillo to make a useless comparison. All contestants but Dillo are 32-bit. (Dillo depends on libglib1.2, which is missing from my chrooted 32-bit Debian unstable as of 17 July 2007.) Browsers are started from command line either with the address as parameter or as home page, window maximised to full screen, and page reloaded if necessary.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND wnd 12021 3.6 1.3 126852 27004 pts/5 Sl 00:22 0:02 (iceweasel) wnd 12077 3.3 1.5 54852 32228 pts/5 S 00:23 0:01 (opera 9.20) wnd 12100 0.2 0.3 72504 6988 pts/5 S 00:23 0:00 (dillo) wnd 12107 7.2 0.5 20736 11784 pts/1 S+ 00:23 0:01 (netfront)
I know the results are not exactly scientific or accurate, but I think they give something to think of. To get better understanding of their memory usage, I should also be running xrestop or such... I'm not even going to try to measure the rendering speed, but using my first impression as sophisticated scientific tool, I'd give the contestants the following grades (10 being the fastest):
I'm sitting at work, reading my email though my home computer, listening to Nectarine. I've been listening Nectarine and Kohina exclusively for ages. For some reason I'm suddenly totally fed up with these tunes. I start transferring some music (legally ripped from CDs I own, of course) from my home computer to my workstation here, just to realize reading email has suddenly become very sluggish. That is something you get with an asymmetric xDSL-cable with no traffic shaping set.
I've used Wondershaper to set up intranet-global traffic shaping rules back home, but since my upstream limit varies from day to day, it's not very practical. One day I can upload 80 KiB/s just fine, another day mere 50 KiB/s will bring my SSH-connections to near-halt. Obviously I should be shaping the traffic per process. This is where Trickle comes in picture.
In the most basic use case Trickle is trivial to use. To copy a file to remote host using scp, you can limit the upload speed to, say, 40 KiB/s:
trickle -u 40 scp bigfile host:
As I'm copying several files from my home computer while at work, I just issue the following command:
trickle -d 40 -t 0.1 ssh kikai \ 'tar -cf - audio/Christopher_Franke_-_Babylon_5' \ | tar -xvvf -
Since compiling from the sources available on Trickle website at monkey.org didn't work out too great, I grabbed the sources (and patches) from local Debian repository.
Permalink | Comments (0)Now how did I manage to miss Sopcast? Internet telephone and video have been around for ages, and so has peer-to-peer voice communications. I've heard of P2P video (or television) projects (e.g. Joost and the one from Piratebay), but nothing concrete until now. Apparently Sopcast isn't exactly new -- it appears in my IRC-logs in March (2007). Anyway, good to know such thing exists. Maybe I get to release my fancy Sopcast channel guide (with command line, ncurses, and GTK UI) released one of these days. :-)
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