I thought it would improve performance to do the entire upgrade like this one here. However the upgrade just made everything shitty. Soon after the upgrade I attempted to playback a nice big video with mplayer and I got a shitty choppy playback and a shitty black flickering bar towards the lower part of the playback. So, I googled for a few hours only to find a ton of others bitching about this driver and how much Intel sucks for this. After readin about all i could fucking stand about the psb driver, one of my old i810 video tips came to mind. Appending “mem=” to your kernel boot line to specify how much memory the kernel uses, Leaving some for the video system.

In your grub/menu.lst find your kernel line:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash

Add “mem=SOMETHING LESS THAN YOUR ACTUAL MEMORY”

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash mem=1000mb

Her mini 10 only has a gig of memory so I am using “mem=1000″, thats in Megabytes and there is 1024 of them in a Gig of ram so this should leave me 24MB’s for video.. if it needs it.

Wouldn’t ya know it, It worked.
Hope this stupid post helps somebody out. Please share your comments.

Log into your server and create a /usr/local/bin/mplaytv script like this:


#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.0 mplayer -fs -zoom "$1"


Make sure you make it executable.

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mplaytv

Now you can play something with the new script and the output will go to the xserver attached to the TV.
Make sure you run the mplaytv script as the user logged into the xsession on the server, or you will get xsession errors.

mplaytv Some_Video.avi

You should see some activity in your shell and mplayer controls are attached to that shell, So keyboard shortcuts also work remotely.

Linux Media, Done.
Simple ain’t it?

Well, Obama was the only candidate on board with my concerns so he won my vote easily . Today I am feeling a bit reassured that I made the right decision. Obama started a new way for the government to keep in touch with us, change.gov. Within two days of the election Obama’s transition team laid out his science and technology agenda. I must admit, I am somewhat impressed.

At a speech at google headquarters Obama raised the issue.


#!/bin/bash
# tweet - A command line twitter with spellcheck - me@phrog.org
echo $@ > /tmp/tweet
aspell -c /tmp/tweet
TWIT=$(cat /tmp/tweet)
curl -u USERNAME:PASSWD -d status="$TWIT" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
rm /tmp/tweet
exit 0


Save the code as “tweet” and use it like this:

you@yourprompt:~$ tweet testing my tweet script

It should spit out some success xml. You just sent a tweet to twitter.

Of course you will need to edit the USERNAME and PASSWD to your username and password at twitter.com. If you don’t like copy and paste you can grab it as a file here. Hope you find it useful.

If you don’t know what irc is or irssi or blowjob.pl do not waste your time trying to understand this. Move along.. Don’t Waste your time.

apt-get install irssi irssi-scripts

Try to load blowjob in irssi

/load blowjob.pl

poop, im missing something.


11:06 ,--[ScriptAssist]
11:06 | The perl module Crypt::CBC is missing on your system.
11:06 | Please ask your administrator about it.
11:06 | You can also check CPAN via '/scriptassist cpan Crypt::CBC'.
11:06 `--->


Guessing I need libcrypt-cbc-perl and im thinking, libcrypt-blowfish-perl

apt-get install libcrypt-cbc-perl libcrypt-blowfish-perl

Next load blowfish in irssi

/load blowjob.pl

Loaded

Set a test key with someone your irc’ing with, and blow something.

/setkey foobar
/blow yo testing
“Ciphertext does not begin with a valid header for ’salt’

Shit still not working! Seems the script is old. It needed to be updated for the newer Crypt:CBC. I changed a couple lines and came up with this fixed blowjob.pl

Working now!