Configuring Ekiga for PC-To-Phone calls
Eventhough you can run Skype on Linux system as described in my last post, I think some more flexible and open options worth to be set.
Ekiga is one of them and is available out of the box in Ubuntu.
Installing Skype under Hardy 64 bits
When installing Ubuntu on my laptop, I made the choice to run it in 64 bits mode having in mind that it might lead to various problems. One of them, is to get Skype running. Since this product is proprietary, no package can be created for 64 bits. You still can get it work by [...]
Getting wireless driver to work on MBP 4.1 and 64 bits
Unfortunately, it seems that the wireless device used in the Macbook Pro 4.1 has no linux driver yet. Ndiswrapper has to be used instead. After uncompressing the rar file named broadcomxpinstaller.exe, simply use the file bcmwl5.inf for a 64 bits installation even if broadcominstaller64.exe is also provided. I updated the Ubuntu wiki to precise it. [...]
Pour le libre accès aux connaissances
Je ne sais trop combien de fois je suis tombé sur une page d’ieeeXplore, ACM portal, SpringerLink, ScienceDirect (et j’en passe) ces dernières années en cherchant de l’information sur Google pour mes projets. Toujours le même scénario: je trouve LE texte qui semblerait m’aider énormément, le recherche dans google et tombe sur une de ces [...]
Worm Is Green
Une découverte intéressante (encore d’Islande !):
http://www.last.fm/music/Worm+Is+Green
et de bonnes sonorités dans The Robot Has Got the Blues et Undercover. Une voix féminine non intruisive dans certaines des pièces. Ça me rappelle par moments du Múm sans ses mélodies “jouets”.
D’autres pièces sont toutefois beaucoup plus sombres mais toujours captivantes: j’ai une impression de Tom [...]
Le mot-clé “restrict”
Il y a quelques minutes encore, étudiant le code contenu dans color_yuv2rgb.c dans xawtv, je ne connaissais pas ce mot-clé du langage C (défini dans la norme C99). Je suis alors tombé sur ce site qui ma fait sourire. L’auteur a rédigé le “contrat” du mot-clé “restrict” pour vulgariser son utilité:
“THE RESTRICT CONTRACT
I, [insert [...]
Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
The tutorial I’ve always been looking for: http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml
Concise, and with some examples
Torrent files merging
I’ve been waiting for more than week just to reach 80% of a file I got using bittorrent. Beside this one, I picked up another torrent of the same file that didn’t went much more over 20%.
80% + 20% = 100 % in my mind. (obviously, we can hardly imagine this scenario since some data [...]
MPLAB 7.60 under Wine
In a nutshell (supposing you start from scratch):
$ sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
$ rm .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microchip -rf (to remove anything that failed)
$ wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks vcrun6
$ wget http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/mp760a.zip
$ unzip mp760a.zip -d microchip
$ wine Install_MP760a.exe
$ wineserver -k (to get rid of splash screen at the end of install)
$ sh winetricks dcom98
$ wine .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microchip/MPLAB IDE/Core/MPLAB.exe
I [...]
