Eat my monkeydust

Just had this problem after installing a bunch of new video codecs because an Xvid file was not playing correctly.

For the benefit of those of you who cannot link the problem to a specific event, I was lucky in that that’s all I had done beforehand. Unintalling the previous codec pack, and then installing this Vista specific one has solved my problem.

Advanced-Vista-Codec-Package-Download (Softpedia.com)

The yaml file parser will attempt to parse all the values, rather than taking them as they are - which in most cases is a good thing, however you must remember to use quotes when the intended output is a string, and the parser may interpret the value otherwise:

default_culture:   en
// No problem, en is treated as a string 
// and /en/ is automatically added to links
 
default_culture: no
// Oops, no is translated by Symfony 
// the same way as false, 0 or off, giving it a boolean value!
 
default_culture: 'no'
// That's better, now you will have the intended results.

The same applies to any yml files that you may have “keywords” in, so try to always use quotes round everything that is not boolean, integer, etc.

People ask me about being a vegetarian all the time, and ask me daft questions like “do you eat fish?”, perhaps even more so now I live in the land of Vikings and father-daughter-son-baby moose hunting safaris.

I just read this article http://www.slate.com/id/2190872 and it was almost like I’d written it myself, so if you want a better understanding of me, and many millions of people like me, take a read… It’s pretty spot on

So week 19 of 2008 is almost upon us (thank the Scandinavians for their odd use of week numbers instead of “real” dates) and the sun is shining. That means no excuses - the running shoes need to come out at some point and the bike can’t complain about getting wet…

• Monday - cycle to work, then to norskkurs? Hmm, maybe I’ll have to think about that second part, since I don’t really want to be sat in a classroom smelling like I’ve just run a marathon…
• Tuesday - Volleyball
• Wednesday - same as Monday
• Thursday - cycle to work, climb in evening
• Friday - rest
• Weekend - Hoping for some climbing/orienteering or at least get out for a run in the forest

My “diet” has been going ok - finding more and more things to keep me full, but generally just relying on endless amounts of fruit, rice cakes and smoothies to keep me going during the work day! Still don’t feel 100% but cutting out the dairy has certainly helped.

At first I thought it was a cute effect that could be modified, but after playing around with the Compiz settings I realised this was actually a bug!

Some people have found success by installing the Nvidia drivers from their website instead of using the ones packaged with Hardy, however this also does the job nicely:

sudo rm /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia/libwfb.so.xserver-xorg-core /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so

You are only deleting and recreating a symbolic link, so it’s nothing too drastic that you should be worried about trying. Just log out and back in again after doing it and you should see “normal” shadows which you can go ahead and edit on the “window decoration” section of the Compiz settings.