Zagura’s blog

If you are getting these kind of errors when you try to install java on debian under a virtual machine, then you perhaps need to increase the available memory.

Yesterday I had some problems with the VOIP connection. I heard my party very well but he could barely hear me.
Normal run of mtr to the other host showed no packet loss but I was able to pinpoint the packet loss to the other party with
mtr -n -s 200 -i 0.02 [ip-address]
(you need to be root)
which sends 50 packets/seconds 200 bytes/packet which pretty much emulates the rtp stream.

If you get this error written on the test page when using Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution, you should install the Samsung Unified Driver. I’ve followed the tutorial on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341621 point II.c and then I’ve added the network printer as lpd:///PASSTHRU with Make and Model “Samsung CLP-310 Series (SPL-C)” (NOT Samsung CLP-310 Foomatic/foo2qpdl)

It seems that jdb cannot accept commands from command line, so we must use expect.
I created the following expect script dumpthreads
You can use it like:
dumpthreads java_process_pid

#!/usr/bin/expect
set pid [lindex $argv 0];
spawn jdb -connect sun.jvm.hotspot.jdi.SAPIDAttachingConnector:pid=$pid;
expect ">";
send "threads\n";
expect ">";
send "quit\n";


Today I encountered a strange problem with Midnight Commander 4.6.2 in Ubuntu. I wanted to change the default Ubuntu setting to use the internal edit. I actually like the mc internal editor and I want to use it. The problem was that the setting was not saved when I chosed “Save setup” even if a message “Setup saved to ~/.mc/ini” appeared. There was no ~/.mc folder. After I did
mkdir ~/.mc
everything worked as expected.
This seems to be a bug in mc.

Here is a picture of the internal board of my newly aquired Emtec S800 PVR. It works on Linux but Emtec was not so kind to provide the sources of the PVR application (there are some sources of an alternative OEM – Ellion available on the net). I needed to open the box to put a resistor at the internal fan because it was too noisy.
dsc_0806.JPG

Here is a python script to convert an .iso of a DVD to avi and to encode it using mpeg4. It is a slightly modified version of the script found at http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-April/032226.html to work with newer versions of mplayer/mencoder.

Later edit:
It seems that mplayer/mencoder know to play/convert .iso files directly so we can do:
mencoder in.iso -o /dev/null -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1:bitrate=800:threads=2 -oac copy
mencoder in.iso -o out.mpeg -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=800:threads=2 -oac copy


The development for Midnight Commander seems to be revived. There is a new site that supports it’s development at http://www.midnight-commander.org They are keeping the sources on a git repository and they accept patches.

This is good news for me, as I have some old issues with Midnight Commander and this might stimulate me to fix them

If you encounter the following error when you try to mount a cifs filesystem:
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

try to:
#emerge mount-cifs

I did not find any indications on the net that a separate package should be installed in order to use cifs.

Later Update: same problem in ubuntu, you need to install smbfs
#apt-get install smbfs

As I started to look at GWT and its related widgets, tutorials and utilities, I thought that it might be an idea to put the information together into a Wiki site. This way, GWTpedia.com was born. Everyone is free to edit.