June 18, 2007

What day is it? Take a look at your stats!

Christian Decker wrote this mid-afternoon:

We students often loose track of time, yes completely, we even sometimes forget what day it is, so I have found a new way to find out. Being also a stats junky I regularly check my page views on this blog, and guess what, I can see what day it!

What day is it?

Notice the (highlighted) days in the stats? That’s weekend, so I could also have stayed in bed :D

Other (not so) intelligent alternatives to calendars?

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June 11, 2007

Fixing Zattoo after update

Christian Decker wrote this in the early evening:

A few days ago Zattoo updated their client, and guess what, it didn’t work on Linux anymore. Using the error messages I was able to guess which libraries were missing: I had to install the xulrunner (it looks like they use the Mozilla API to display the channel browser). But when trying to run the client I got still more errors, the problem is that Zattoo uses some strange library name convention, so we have to create the links to the actual libraries, so we have to run the following as root: 

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libgtkembedmoz.so libgtkembedmoz.so.0d
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libxpcom.so libxpcom.so.0d
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libmozjs.so libmozjs.so.0d
ln -s libplds4.so libplds4.so.0d
ln -s libplc4.so libplc4.so.0d
ln -s libnspr4.so libnspr4.so.0d
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libxul.so libxul.so.0d
I still get some errors about the missing flash-plugin, but that’s just an annoying dialog box that can be closed by clicking ok. From thereon it should work like a charm :-)

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June 10, 2007

Crappy Server

Christian Decker wrote this in the wee hours:

FeedMedic Failures
Lately I have some problems with my hosting provider, it keeps coming up and down several times an hour, and I’m pretty annoyed by now to see the Feedburner FeedMedic hundreds of alerts, my cron jobs failing, my tools not working and most important, the blog being unreachable.

As soon as I can I will switch away from dynamic-net.ch (sorry guys but crappy support and service always comes back).

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June 6, 2007

Pitchfork

Christian Decker wrote this terribly early in the morning:
My Article on how to install Pitchfork has been featured in the official Documentation of Pitchfork. It’s great news for me ^^

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Apple iPhone

Christian Decker wrote this terribly early in the morning:

Being a long time Apple hater (not Apple’s fault, it’s the users that I find too elitarian), so this is not easy for me, but I love the iPhone. And this Ad is not helping either, I’m even considering buying a MacBook as my next Notebook.

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