Random stuff, 2007-06-14
- Magnus Therning
Just after being added to Planet Haskell I changed the theme of WP ((I had made a manual change to the old theme that really didn’t belong on a Planet. It can only be described as discrimination against IE users.)) but as always with themes there were things I didn’t really like. I was happy to notice that this time I’d chosen a theme written by someone who knew English which was a relief since the previous theme was commented and even contained id names in Spanish. Still, modifying the theme, especially the style sheet, is a pain. Then I found Firebug. Let’s just say I’m never going to bother looking through the style sheet for a theme again without first having found the exact line number by using Firebug. It’s simply a brilliant add-on for Firefox.
After talking to a mate I dropped enable-ssh-support
in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
and stopped using ssh-agent
altogether. The Debian developers seem to have anticipated this and there’s full support for this in the scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/
. Excellent!
I’ve finally taken the time to look into getting the webcam that I bought from OpenForEveryone working. After a false start with spca5xx
–it doesn’t build on recent kernels–I built a kernel module for gspca
. Firing up Camorama revealed that the cam was indeed working, however colours, contrast and brightness was all screwed up and couldn’t be changed. Later that turned out to be a problem with Camorama rather then with the cam itself; it works perfectly well in Ekiga.
I’ve also signed up for a SIP account at ekiga.net. I can now be reached on sip:magnus.therning@ekiga.net.