Amarok
On my Fedora 8 system with Amarok I was trying to fill an mp3’s tag header using MusicBrainz, getting the following error: Tunepimp (MusicBrainz tagging library) returned the following error: "Fingerprinting of .mp3 files is not supported." To make it work, just yum install libtunepimp-extras-nonfree
Linux
Recently I’ve been in an awkward situation with ssh and X11 forwarding, where ssh using the classic -Y or -X option wasn’t working (DISPLAY was not set): [andrea@duncan ~]$ ssh -Y root@thufir root@thufir's password: Last login: Sat Apr 12 23:30:09 2008 from
sata
Do you think you can get a fast cheap SATA mass storage at home with Solaris 10 and ZFS just plugging a cheap si3124 controller? Not so easily: on Solaris 10 you will be afflicted by some boring bug known as bug #6566207 which gets your controller stuck for around
Solaris
On platforms without seq (MacOSX, Solaris), you can emulate it using dc as follows (note the upper bound and the lower bound): echo '[1+pdUPPER_BOUND>aq]saLOWER_BOUND 1-lax' | dc For example: alia:~ andrea$ echo '[1+pd5>aq]sa0 1-lax' | dc 0 1
News
After years of heroic resistance my site finally became a blog.
NNet is a (metaprogrammed) neural network. It allows the selection of the network layout (number of layers and activation functions) in a simple way, without runtime costs -- check out the following 2 hidden layers network: typedef NeuralNetwork< float, boost::mpl::vector< Layer<Tanh, 1>, Layer&
Some time ago I got an old HP NetServer 5/133 LS2 (that I revived with FreeBSD). After giving some progress during the boot process, the front LCD display gets stuck with a useless description when the system is up and running, as shown here: I thought it would be