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Robert Moog, also known as Bob Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizers (for example, the fantastic Minimoog) has died today at the age of 71. I feel sad because it’s partly owing to him that I am such an enthusiast of electronic music. I remember listening in awe at a record called Go Moog at my uncle’s place when I was a kid. It was a demo of the various Moog synthesizers and I specially loved Popcorn.
Thanks Bob for everything!
Hi, I’ve just discovered Dmix, a plugin supplied with ALSA which allows for direct mixing of multiple streams of audio (for example, you can have amaroK playing your favourite MP3 and still hear KDE notifications when new friends join in IM)
As from alsa-lib 1.0.9, Dmix is activated by default so absolutely no (manual) configuration required. I can confirm that Dmix is working out of the box for me with my somewhat high-end Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96 sound card (ICE1712 ALSA driver).
amaroK supports ALSA natively and getting it to use the Dmix plugin is simple:
As soon as plug:dmix is specified as the device to use, amaroK stops monopolising the sound card and other audio applications (if they support ALSA) can be used at the same time.
To be continued…
Once more, Stéphane has qualified for the finals of a major sporting event. At 23:10 (MRU) tonight, he’ll run in the finals of the 200m race for the 2005 World Championships at Helsinki.
I know he’ll be among the first 3 this time
Mo sire ki pou kas paké Stéphane. Ce soir, tou Mauriciens pou ar toi! Montré sa banne Américains là ki nou pli fort ki zot :-)
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An update:
23:25. Stéphane has come out 5th behind the 4 Americans with a good time of 20.41 seconds. I feel that he could have been 3rd had he made a better start. Stéphane, nou mari fier. To ene térib :-)
Yep! It’s true. I am now running OpenOffice.org 1.9.122 on my AMD64 Gentoo Linux box. The biggest problem with this setup is that OO needs a 32-bits version of Java and this is not available normally (as it is replaced (sensibly) by a 64-bits JVM). Here’s how I succeeded:
(1) echo "=sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.5-r1 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
(2) emerge -av glibc
Go to http://java.sun.com/ and download a 32-bits Java SDK or JRE and install it manually at a suitable place (e.g. /opt/nonportage/j2sdk1.4.2_06/). I personally use a relatively old SDK which I downloaded some months ago and everything seem to work well…
The 2.0 Beta is ~amd64 and hard-masked. Looks like paranoia to me :-)
echo "=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "app-office/openoffice-bin" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
emerge -av =openoffice-bin-1.9.122
export JDK_HOME=/opt/nonportage/j2sdk1.4.2_06
export JAVA_HOME=${JDK_HOME}
export JAVAC=${JDK_HOME}/bin/javac
export PATH=${JDK_HOME}/bin:${JDK_HOME}/jre/bin:${PATH}
export MANPATH=${MANPATH}:${JDK_HOME}/man
/opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice
Of course, replace /opt/nonportage/j2sdk1.4.2_06 by the path you used when installing the 32-bits JDK or JRE.
Enjoy! OpenOffice will remember the location of the 32-bits Java SDK or JRE and you won’t need to modify any environment variables afterwards…
I’ve uploaded some of our photos on flickr to check if everything works correctly.
I’ll be evaluating flickr these coming days to see whether to scrap my Coppermine album or not…
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