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Preventing Spotify Crashes in the Linux Client Preview

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:35:00 +0200

This may only be relevant for Fedora users. Anyway, after I’ve ran the Spotify client preview for some time, it crashes without a good explanation why. After a crash the client won’t run again until the cache is cleared.

$ rm -rf ~/.cache/spotify

It’s likely that you can be more fine-grained when clearing the cache. I haven’t investigated it much, but it may be sufficient to remove ~/.cache/spotify/Storage. Note that the cache directory is configurable in Edit→Preferences….

Applying patches using SCons

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:31:00 +0200

A project has third-party dependencies that need to be patched before being used. I’m new to SCons, but here is my go at applying patches using the build tool.

site_scons/site_init.py

import os

def TOOL_VENDOR(env):
    def patch_generator(source, target, env, for_signature):
        """Generate a patched version of source in target (both being
        directories). If a patch is missing, do nothing.
        """
        target = target[0]
        source = source[0]
        patch_path = '%s.patch' % source.path
        cmds = []
        if len(Glob(patch_path)):
            cmds += [
                Delete(target),
                Copy(target, source),
                "cd %s && patch -p1 < %s" % (target.path, os.path.abspath(patch_path)),
                ]
        return cmds
    env.Append(BUILDERS = {'VendorPatch': Builder(generator=patch_generator)})

SConstruct

env = Environment(tools=['default', TOOL_VENDOR])
SConscript([
        'vendor/SConscript',
        ], exports='env')

vendor/ is a directory with third-party libraries. The vendor/SConscript file will

find directories such as vendor/acme-parser/repo and create a patched version of it in vendor/acme-parser/patched, if vendor/acme-parser/repo.patch exists, and
run any existing library SConscript files.

vendor/SConscript

Import('env')
import os

for repo in Glob('*/repo'):
    env.VendorPatch(Dir(os.path.join(repo.dir.name, 'patched')), repo)

SConscript(Glob('*/SConscript'), exports='env')

Solitary Man

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:04:00 +0200

Great movie with awesome music.

The Smell of Hell

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:20:27 +0200

The Smell of Hell:

It’s gonna be another FORTRAN day. How often have you wished Moses had written a bunch of extra commandments, just for programming?

(BBC article.)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:28:58 +0200

(BBC article.)

Photo

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:35:57 +0200

Student 2010, Västermalm, Sundsvall

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:57:45 +0200

Student 2010, Västermalm, Sundsvall

Nigera vs. Germany

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:45:57 +0200

Nigera vs. Germany

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women..."

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:17:25 +0200

“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.”

- Dave Barry

“Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system...

Fri, 28 May 2010 15:16:30 +0200

“Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.”

Video

Thu, 27 May 2010 17:56:20 +0200

“250 men and women asked to draw how several emotions felt in...

Tue, 25 May 2010 11:47:34 +0200

“250 men and women asked to draw how several emotions felt in their bodies. These are the combined results.”

Quite interesting, totally useless. Found at reddit, of course.

Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish fantasy artist More pictures

Fri, 21 May 2010 11:47:37 +0200

Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish fantasy artist
More pictures

10 Genres of Metal in 3 Minutes

Fri, 21 May 2010 11:33:00 +0200

10 Genres of Metal in 3 Minutes

"Study finds that 100% of people who think they have constipation are full of shit."

Thu, 20 May 2010 20:34:15 +0200

“Study finds that 100% of people who think they have constipation are full of shit.”

- CaptainMaxxpower at reddit

"This is my theory of the film. Oskar will eventually become what the old man was. She uses people to..."

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:52:52 +0200

“This is my theory of the film. Oskar will eventually become what the old man was. She uses people to get an advocate, then move on. I think it is a great story about how being immortal destroys your humanity, or makes it so you can manipulate them. It is a great film, and gets the vampire genre right. Vampires are monsters, and they prey on more than the flesh. Vampires aren’t shiny pedophilic faggots with crushes on high school seniors.”

- megatom0 at reddit, about “Let the Right One In”

Photo

Sat, 15 May 2010 11:15:47 +0200

Photo

Thu, 13 May 2010 19:32:49 +0200

“Giant Herring” Found in Sweden

Tue, 11 May 2010 22:00:00 +0200

“Giant Herring” Found in Sweden

Defendor

Mon, 03 May 2010 21:43:07 +0200

Defendor:

A great Canadian production. I think it got a vague resemblance to Sin City but is much brighter and less complex. Woody Harrelson is excellent in the main role.