xchat is the most flexible irc client ive used (to be honest ive used two mirc is the second and all in all been online in irc for about two hours)
so here is a little review for all of you that take GNU, open source and etc for words that equal human rights. sorry mirc but even though you feel that youve put so much energy and etc into your project, software simply isn’t meant to cost anything so here is some promotion of the BEST irc client in the world linux or windows
X-CHAT
not that i dont support the ability to donate to a certain software that you dig, but directly telling people they cant use it without paying is too much.
software is so nonphysical that any thought on combining it with payment results in diffuse matterless substances. quote zoolander: “baaaad”

just to let people know again:
X-Chat for the win
M-irc shame on you

sorry for being too hard, but … FREE THE SOFTWARE!!!

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gphoto

Unfortunately, many digital camera manufacturers refuse to share their camera communication specifications with their customers and millions of users who run free operating systems.

which is why gphoto is invented, although not giving you live view or anything like that, it gives you a tool to take pictures directly to the computer from your dslr. running on linux and is of course gnu licensed.

here its used on burning man festival in nevada.

The camera was controlled by a custom Daemon I wrote using the Gphoto library, which ran on the Powertainer’s Slackware linux system and the images were stored full-size on a hard drive. After the event, I ran another piece of code that downsampled the images to 640×480 then composed them at 30fps into a MPEG-4 video.
- peef peef

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i found it quite hard to get normal sound working for my different apps in ubuntu, the trouble seemed to be that i was running jack to get audio from my beloved renoise music tracker.

jack is like an audio router with endless possibilities (and for the beginner errors)
so i searched and searched but every solution seemed to be concentrating on only one app a time, like getting vlc to speak with jack or flash etc…..

but to rescue me finally was the following knowledge.

firstly. download the alsa plugins,
alsa plugins ( remember to pick the newest and stay away from rc-endings - dont ask why)

then you should install the alsa plugins package.
first extract to a known place i used my home folder.

then go to the directory you extracted.

./configure &&
make

now as root write

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-1.0.21 &&
install -v -m644 doc/{README*,*.txt} \
/usr/share/doc/alsa-plugins-1.0.21
- linux from scratch

then open a new terminal and write

gedit ~/.asoundrc

this will open a new text file where you will dump the following text.

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave { pcm “jack” }
}

pcm.jack {
type jack
playback_ports {
0 alsa_pcm:playback_1
1 alsa_pcm:playback_2
}
capture_ports {
0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
1 alsa_pcm:capture_2
}
}

ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}
- alsa wiki

where ‘card’ identifies which audio card you are using

then open jack and things should be ok.

links:
linuxfromscratch
alsa
alsa plugins

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i am developing a small app that lets my girlfriend rearrange the appartment in her thought before doing it in reality, thereby i can maybe sit in sofa the same place in my room to days in a row.
so here goes my first thoughts.

i am using the trackmate lusidosc combination to make a small table that recognisez symbolic objects on the top, and then sends the corresponding information about x,y, and rotation to the interior design sketch in processing which moves a library of predesigned “bird-view” images of our furniture around the also predefined rooms of our appartment.

the last steps should be

1. make it easily to take in new furnitures and assign symbols to them.
2. problems that occur

my first initial ideas are already working even though the code is kinda ugly.

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renoise is by far the most adaptable piece of commercial software. one license covers linux, windows and mac osx. and the way its arranged by is that you get a passport to their backstage area in which you can download the software for as many times you like to as many os’es you like, only of course as long as you are the user. in the backstage area you also get the support you need. in general i think they have made the step into the future of commercial software by how they arrange the user/company relationship.

a license is only 49 euros and the next generation (3.1 now we are at 2.1) will have a 20 % cutdown if you already have the prereleased generation. of course all updates in between are free.

check it out!

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