Patterns

Since upgrading to Ubuntu Hardy (what was I thinking when I did that…) I had the weird issue of my external screen (connected via VGA out) going black after a non-specific amount of time (e.g. sometimes after an hour, sometimes after 6 hours). xrandr still showed the external screen as connected and the monitor also received enough signal to actually not go into standby mode but whatever I tried, nothing made the black screen show my desktop again. So here is the workaround if you inhibit a similar type of issue (additionally the external screen lost sync for a tiny amount of time creating some kind of funny disturbed images from time to time – flickering if you will or maybe the matrix just tried fight it’s way to the surface):

Edit your xorg.conf to include the following Option in the Device Section of “Configured Video Device”:

Section "Device"
Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
Option          "FramebufferCompression" "off"
EndSection

Interesting: With the latest Ubuntu release the goal seems to be to actually have X guess all the configuration settings automagically so the xorg.conf was pretty empty after a fresh installation.

In order to check the current status of a MySQL master-slave setup use the following command in the MySQL shell:
mysql> show slave status\G;

An introduction to MySQL master-slave setups can be found here.

Um 20:05h ging es los und die ersten 10 Minuten hab ich per Lautsprecher zugehört. Es wollte sich aber nicht die rechte Atmosphäre einstellen, so dass ich auf Kopfhörer umgeschwenkt bin. Danach war es dann schon bedeutend einfacher, sich in die Geschichte hinein zu finden.

Die Geschichte selbst war allerdings recht vorhersagbar und mir will auch nicht recht in den Kopf warum sich der Emir überhaupt nochmal auf Taraki eingelassen hat, obwohl er schon längst wusste, dass er ein Polizist ist. Details…

Ich weiß nicht, ob es nur mir so ging, aber mir kamen die Dialoge der meisten Sprecher ein wenig aufgesetzt vor, aber zumindest die Soundeffekte waren nett gemacht.

Mal sehen, wie sich die anderen Ermittler so schlagen werden.

hello people we are here. In one hand a mikro in the other a beer.

http://extjs.com/

For a few simple tasks like an accordion menu and a grid I started testing the ExtJS JavaScript library and I have to say, once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty straight forward and helps to achieve results in no time. A few interesting code snippets for the accordion menu can be found here.