http://blog.quant0r.com Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:55:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I personally don't like all those insane 320kbit bitrates, I'm perfectly fine with listening to 80kbit ogg(which sounds like 128kbit mp3 occupying less space at the same time). As it's impossible to convert from inside iTunes(oh, Foobar, where art thou?) I had to resort to command line tools. The tools ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/04/20/mp3-to-ogg-preserving-tags/ I've recently moved from make to CMake which is a cross-platform build system. It's quite nice if you want to be able to build for mac/win with the same makefile(CMakeLists.txt for CMake). The CMakeLists syntax is quite powerful and I haven't regretted moving since. One of the main ideas of CMake ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/04/13/using-cmake-with-vim/ Recently one of the ways to distribute packages(binary and source) is by using RPM. That's all very good and everything but what to do if the rpms aren't supported - as on osX? It gets a bit trickier but still manageable. First grab the perl script - rpm2cpio.pl. Its usage ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/03/19/rpms-on-osx/ There's a handy tool for correcting data errors - Par2 The command line utility for linux is included in most packages, but alas not so on macos. There are still two ways to go - there is a port over at MacPorts but I already have Fink installed and I didn't ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/03/19/par2-on-osx/ Since I've moved to mac not so long ago, I was happy that most of the apps I normally use are ported to os x. As I've been writing a lot of mathematical stuff in LaTeX it soon got quite annoying constantly recompiling, closing previous Preview.app instance and opening it ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/02/26/vim-latex-on-a-mac/ There is a very old-skool platformer style game called Doukutsu Monogatari or Cave story. You can read more about it here. It has multiple endings but the main drawback is that it has very limited save support - there is only one save slot available - which is quite similar ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/02/21/cave-story-multiple-saves/ On windows the most popular client is TortoiseSVN, but the situation isn't as clear on the mac. SvnX The first one i tried was SvnX. It's free open-source subversion client which is quite popular. It has all the usual subversion feature one needs - commit, check out, show revisions, svn ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/01/21/os-x-svn-clients-svnx-zigversion/ Installing MediaWiki Getting MediaWiki up and running is pretty simple. Here is the installation script which will download mediawiki 1-11.0 and do the necessary preconfiguration (see more here on that) Setting up database for Wiki Go to CPanel->MySQL Databases and add new database(e.g wikidb - I'm not sure but to be on the ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/01/20/installing-wiki-on-a2hosting-with-latex-support-on-a2hosting/ First you'll need to follow the SVN wiki entry to set up svn repository and passwordless ssh access at A2Hosting. As this is only for one user, then the easiest way is to use svn dump functionality which allows for incremental dumps. Using post-commit hooks we'll just save the new ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/01/17/setting-up-single-user-synced-svn-repositories/ The first part is to allow openID users to post comments on your blog, this can be easily achieved by installing Wordpress OpenID plugin. The installations is simplicity itself - just copy the plugin and activate it, nothing else required. The other part is being able to use your blog as ... http://blog.quant0r.com/2008/01/16/installing-openid/