The future is not what it used to be

2009
12
Dec

Replace Pulse Audio with ALSA

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Replace Pulse Audio with ALSA

With the launch of Karmic Koala, the Ubuntu developers have forced the Pulse Audio down our throat. The net result being a lot of my apps have broken their voice.

For instance just after I upgraded to Karmic, and tried to play my Music collection on Exaile, Rhythmbox, Banshee I saw a strange thing.
The first song would play perfectly fine. Next the OSD would show that the second song has started playing. The progress bar would also confirm that. But there was NO SOUND. It was dead silent. No amount of tinkering solved the problem.

A little searching also suggested that that Pulse Audio was the culprit.

So the only option was to ditch Pulse Audio in favour of ALSA.

The following steps show how to do it :
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2009
24
Nov

Encounters with domPDF of the 1st kind

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domPDF : PDF Engine

While working with one of my clients, there was a requirement to generate PDF dynamically.
Since the project was done in PHP, I had to naturally look for something that worked well with PHP.

A little search and I came up with the following options :

  1. FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/)
  2. ezPDF (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/)
  3. PDFlib (http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-7-family/pdflib/)
  4. domPDF (http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/)

But some of the hurdles were:

  1. The PDF generated would be using an external style sheet.
  2. There would be complex table structures.
  3. There should be no dependency on external library.

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2009
03
Oct

Re-Use Paper : Create your own ghetto scratch-pad

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While cleaning out my room I cam across a bunch of a old printouts which were of no use to me any further. Also what I found out was that the printouts were single sided too ..duh!!!

So I thought why not reuse/re-utilize those printouts and do my bit for the environment and give a few trees a few more days to live.

Since I need/use a lot of scratch pad for myself/household, I thought why not go ahead and make the non-printed sides usable and make a scratch-pad.

So readers just read ahead and you should know in a matter of minutes how to create your own ghetto scratch-pad from the left over single sided printouts

Here’s howto …

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2009
24
Sep

Support for IE6 removed

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No IE6 please

I have finally decided to remove support for IE6 users. I should have done a long time ago. But I kept delaying it back.

So from now onwards any visitor using IE6 will be provided with the below warning message

No IE6 please

and also the site would default to the default WordPress Kubrick theme.

Default WordPress Kubrick theme

That way I won’t have to re-write my theme for IE6 and also any IE6 user would be able to read the site contents but then again they won’t see the site as it I meant it to be viewed like.

Sorry IE6 users, but its time you people move on to a better/standards compliant browser.

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