I would like to report that the multi-monitor support is very broken in Lion, specifically with full-screen apps.
Full-screen apps are great, it’s nice to have an immersive view of content, however the user needs to be able to choose which display the full-screen app appears on.
On my MacBook Pro, I like to keep the built-in display as primary, but sometimes would like to have Quicktime or iPhoto full screen on the external display. In Snow Leopard, this was possible, however in Lion there is no way to make apps full screen on the external display.
Another problem is that making any one app full screen makes all other connected displays useless. My Mac Pro has 3 displays connected. Lion makes it impossible to say, watch a video in Quicktime full-screen on one monitor while simultaneously checking mail or browsing the Web on another. I’ll admit, there is a solution to this problem: not using any Apple apps. VLC is able to go full screen on one monitor with Firefox full screen on another and leaving my other display available for use.
Apple, please fix this, or this Mac Pro will be my last, and it will be running Snow Leopard for the rest of its lifetime.
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If you agree, please submit feedback to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
This script will read the container ID from the file name, and use it to restore the tgz dump to the same ID on the new OpenVZ/Proxmox server.
Note that this only works if the default name for the vzdumps is kept, and it only works for the next 89 years, because I’m lazy.
Thanks to
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-loop-over-file/ and http://bashcurescancer.com/10-steps-to-beautiful-shell-scripts.html
#!/bin/bash
VZDUMPS=/path/to/backups/*.tgz
for f in $VZDUMPS
do
f2=${f#*openvz-}
VEID=${f2%-20*}
echo "Restoring $f to $VEID"
vzrestore $f $VEID
done
Use this link to add the default Google search provider to IE or Firefox. Useful for IE, or Firefox on Linux Mint.
For Firefox:Google.xml
For IE: MS-Google.xml
I had noticed this a little while ago, but it seems they’re stepping it up.
Seriously, does CBS have no better revenue generation method than to install crapware on people’s computers?
See for example Pidgin Portable: http://download.cnet.com/Pidgin-Portable/3000-2150_4-10834880.html?tag=mncol;3
and this post on UltraVNC forums
https://forum.ultravnc.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28692
This enables dynamic resizing of the photo displayed, and enables the pseudo-lightbox popup to view the “full” resized image for users that can’t view the true full image.
< ?php defined("SYSPATH") or die("No direct script access.") ?>
<!-- Use javascript to show the full size as an overlay on the current page -->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
full_dims = [< ?= $theme->item()->width ?>, < ?= $theme->item()->height ?>];
$(".g-fullsize-link").click(function() {
$.gallery_show_full_size(< ?= html::js_string($theme->item()->file_url()) ?>, full_dims[0], full_dims[1]);
return false;
});
resize_dims = [< ?= $theme->item()->resize_width ?>, < ?= $theme->item()->resize_height ?>];
$(".g-resized-link").click(function() {
$.gallery_show_full_size(< ?= html::js_string($theme->item()->resize_url()) ?>, resize_dims[0], resize_dims[1]);
return false;
});
// After the image is rotated or replaced we have to reload the image dimensions
// so that the full size view isn't distorted.
$("#g-photo").bind("gallery.change", function() {
$.ajax({
url: "< ?= url::site("items/dimensions/" . $theme->item()->id) ?>",
dataType: "json",
success: function(data, textStatus) {
full_dims = data.full;
}
});
});
});
</script>
<style>
img.g-resize {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
<div id="g-item">
< ?= $theme->photo_top() ?>
< ?= $theme->paginator() ?>
<div id="g-photo">
< ?= $theme->resize_top($item) ?>
< ? if (access::can("view_full", $item)): ?>
<a href="<?= $item->file_url() ?>" title="< ?= t("View full size")->for_html_attr() ?>">
< ? else: ?>
</a><a href="<?= $item->resize_url() ?>" title="< ?= t("View full size")->for_html_attr() ?>">
< ? endif; ?>
< ?= $item->resize_img(array("id" => "g-item-id-{$item->id}", "class" => "g-resize")) ?>
</a>
< ?= $theme->resize_bottom($item) ?>
</div>
<div id="g-info">
<h1>< ?= html::purify($item->title) ?></h1>
<div>< ?= nl2br(html::purify($item->description)) ?></div>
</div>
< ?= $theme->photo_bottom() ?>
</div>
<style>
img.g-resize {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
Where g-resize is the class assigned to the img you want to have dynamically resized.
Thanks to http://michelf.com/weblog/2005/liquid-image/
cd to the folder, run :
$ find . -name '*attach*' | xargs rm
where attach is the keyword present in all filenames to delete.
I’m currently running Ubuntu Natty as my primary OS at work.
My setup is a Precision T3500 workstation that came with two NVIDIA Quadro cards which were a nightmare for Linux support. I heard that ATI cards supported 3 monitors on one card, as long as one of them was DisplayPort. I saw a cheap Radeon HD 5450 on sale for about $40, so I picked it up only to notice that it had an HDMI port instead of DisplayPort. I figured I’d try it anyway and was surprised to find that with the open-source radeon driver, 3 monitors work! One is connected by VGA, one HDMI and one DVI.
I had, however been experiencing random X crashes, and I suspect the problem was with the radeon driver.
Currently testing out some updated xorg drivers found at:
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?50038-Updated-and-Optimized-Ubuntu-Free-Graphics-Drivers
My system specs:
$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
====================================================
system Precision WorkStation T3500 ()
/0 bus 09KPNV
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3530 @ 2.80GHz
/0/400/700 memory 256KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/400/704 memory 8MiB L3 cache
/0/1000 memory 14GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/1 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/2 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/3 memory 4GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/4 memory 4GiB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/1000/5 memory DIMM DDR3 Synchronous [empty]
/0/100 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port
/0/100/1 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1/0 eth0 network 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
/0/100/3 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3
/0/100/3/0 display Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450]
/0/100/3/0.1 multimedia Manhattan HDMI Audio [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
/0/100/7 bridge 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7
/0/100/14 generic 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers
/0/100/14.1 generic 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers
/0/100/14.2 generic 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers
/0/100/1a bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1a.1 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
/0/100/1a.2 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
/0/100/1a.7 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1b multimedia 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.5 bridge 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
/0/100/1c.5/0 eth1 network NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
/0/100/1d bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 250GB ST3250318AS
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 101MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 4102MiB Linux swap volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 20GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 208GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/sdb disk 1500GB WDC WD15EARS-00M
/0/100/1f.2/1/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 499GiB Data partition
/0/100/1f.2/1/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 897GiB Data partition
/0/100/1f.2/2 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-ROM TS-H353C
/0/100/1f.2/3 /dev/cdrw disk DVD+-RW TS-H653F
/0/100/1f.2/3/0 /dev/cdrw disk
/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
Just noticed something today.
A few years ago I was living in residence at St. Paul University. The internet access there was managed by an access controller which redirected all new connections to wireless.colubris.com. After some investigation, I realized there was a way to work around the bandwidth limitations and session timeouts with the use of a DNS forwarder, a Web server, MAC address spoofing, a SOCKS proxy server software and a pseudo-keepalive tool, the ever-useful Firefox addon Reloadevery. This allowed for much more effective use of the available network connectivity.
Fast forward to the present, and I now find myself on the other side. We now have installed our own HP ProCurve access controller, technology which HP acquired through the purchase of Colubris Inc.
so, wireless.colubris.com, we meet again. Things look different from this side.
PulseAudio, as usual, has been annoying me.
This time, it’s because it’s blocking the S/PDIF passthrough via HDMI from XBMC.
I found a great tutorial on how to disable it at http://www.jeffsplace.net/node/12.
However for some reason I had no sound from the TV. That’s because the default device for ALSA is the analog audio output rather than the HDMI port. To fix this, run aplay -l in terminal to determine the card ID for the HDMI out.
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Then, create a ~/.asoundrc file with the following:
pcm.!default "plughw:0,3"
Where 0 is your card ID and 3 is the device ID found from the aplay -l.
Now all apps should be able to play audio through ALSA/HDMI.
yer -ao alsa -ac hwdts -vo vdpau qgh_dts.dts
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