I was trying to build pino 0.3 with the help of debian-sources of pino 0.2+ and found myself with this little issue:

-- checking for module 'unique-1.0 >= 1.0'
--   found unique-1.0 , version 1.1.6
-- checking for module 'gtkspell-2.0 >= 2.0'
--   found gtkspell-2.0 , version 2.0.16
-- checking for module 'rest-0.6 >= 0.6'
--   package 'rest-0.6 >= 0.6' not found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:266 (message):
  A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:320 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
  CMakeLists.txt:62 (pkg_check_modules)
-- checking for module 'rest-extras-0.6 >= 0.6'
--   package 'rest-extras-0.6 >= 0.6' not found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:266 (message):
  A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:320 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
  CMakeLists.txt:63 (pkg_check_modules)
-- checking for module 'indicate >= 0.3'
--   found indicate , version 0.4.1
-- libindicate found, support enabled...
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
dh_auto_configure: cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory  /tmp/buildd/pino-0.3+hg~20101225'

So, OK. Build-depend on librest-dev and librest-extras-dev and problem solved I thought, but no. It kept giving this error even trying with librest-0.7-0 and lib-rest-extras-0.7-0 installed. Anyone can throw a light on this?

I m loving it. Right now I m playing 1944, is so realistic and everything is very well documented! I m even thinking on joining the Debian Games-team for helping keep this game up-to-date. If you re looking for something like Age of Empires, Spore or anything like that genre just go to springrts.com and choose the mod for the age you want to play! Using Debian? Great! Just apt-get it! Install spring and springlobby and that s it, run springlobby and let the fun begin. See what I m talking about, this is 1944:
<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1TuLnYH5Q8U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1TuLnYH5Q8U?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></embed></object>

While making a CSS layout for a client I had issues with transitions on WebKit-based browsers, I couldn t make it renderize more than one transition at the same time with the short -webkit-transition, the line was:

-webkit-transition: background-color .25s linear, shadow .25s linear;

Doesn t works on Safari 3 nor in Google Chrome 6 so I tried splitting out the lines to:

-webkit-transition-property: background-color, shadow;
-webkit-transition-duration:.25s, .25s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function: linear, linear;

And now it works! But it sucks, now I have to write three stupid lines instead of one for the same thing, something that works perfectly on Firefox4 and the draft says explicitly it should work, just:

-moz-transition: background-color .25s linear, shadow .25s linear;

Well, at least works

Sometimes I create empty branchs while designing some webs and I got tired of making all the thing manually; so, some time ago I wrote a little bash script that may work for any of you to do this task. It takes the first parameter as the name of the new branch to be created, here s the code:

#!/bin/sh
# creating a git empty branch
# it takes as arg the name for the new branch
git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/$1
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial empty branch commit"

Hope it works for someone.

Tired of the versioning issue between libnautilus from Debian and Ubuntu I decided to create myself the packages for nautilus-dropbox and here they are. I ll maintain them on my repo, so if you want to keep dropbox updated I recommend you to add my repo to your sources.list:
deb http://dl.rivco.net/debian sid main
And if you are on testing/squeeze there s a repo for you too:
deb http://dl.rivco.net/debian squeeze main It s only available for i386 but you can grab the sources adding the deb-src for your distro and build it with dpkg-buildpackage or whatever you want. Soon I ll be building the experimental client as well.

Long time ago I stopped using Chrome for daily use and leave it only for my Google services like Gmail and Wave. Now, is my main browser even when it just stop working while I m offline (weird thing, btw). Is fast, starts fast, loads fast, runs javascript very fast. I can use websites as apps without installing another app to complement my browser like Prism and renders fonts wonderfully with @font-face. Now, Firefox, well First of all, I m using nightly builds of alpha version, so it s supposed to fail sometimes and I understand that but, it s not supposed to be faster as well? Loads after 1 min I launch it(UPDATE 2010-05-26: There was a loop on an addon making it start slow, now starts on 10 seconds which is pretty nice) and loads not as smooth as Chrome the websites, even using NoFlash, NoAds and NoJavaScript! In fact, if wasn t because Chrome stops working while I m offline I would not have any reason to use Firefox even while designing websites (just for checking). It s a shame, I really liked a lot Firefox and I hope Firefox4 get a really good speed bump.

I was finding a solution to not use a bunch of DIVs with PNGs for shadows in some boxes, and found box-shadow that s supposed to be on CSS3 but checking the CSS3 Background and Borders models found that there s not anymore box-shadow so probably the solution will not be a standard soon. Does anyone knows why?

I use Firefox and Chrome on parallel so must webs I visit on Chrome I do it as well on Firefox and today Google looks so SO different! On Firefox the layout has blue buttons, the search layout is so different (and nice but), weird at the beginning but with so much logic after you use all the features. It has something with dates ranges that s very nice. It s better using Google on Firefox than Chrome now :-) Here s screenshots on Firefox and Chrome.

Yesterday I was trying to get some of my old keybindings (from awesome 2.x) to work on awesome 3.4 and it was awful the process. With 2.x I worked with awful.spawn and got any bash command I wanted running. Now it changed to awful.util.spawn but if I wanted anything ran on a shell I had to use awful.util.spawn_with_shell but, at least for me, didn t worked. So I got commands like:

scrot ~/tmp/screenshots/$(date +%Y%m%d-%k%M%S).png

That one didn t ran directly. Nor my commands for volume management. So I got a workaround, used only awful.util.spawn calling scripts on my ~/bin path. So if any of you has got issues with this just put your line on a bash script file, make it executable and use a line like:

awful.key( , "Print", function () awful.util.spawn("scriptpath") end),

BTW, don t use ~ nor any thing needs a shell, use full paths to avoid confusion and bad functioning. I used ~/bin/d/anything and didn t worked nor with awful.util.spawn_with_shell. I hope this help anyone with my same issues.

I haven t read of it, and it seems it has been around since a good time. Collecta is a search engine for things in real-time. It searchs on Twitter, Identi.ca, Youtube, Flickr, Blogs, Ustream and shows you what people is saying. It s like a meta-searcher, I guess using API s from those services. But it has it s own API so it will be great for someone that s into web2.x and wants information on real-time from everywhere with just one API. There s a lot of people doing this already and there s a gallery about their development. Maybe tomorrow I will get a little into it, it looks really nice. BTW, it s what powers search.identi.ca

Dear Lazyweb, I do love how fonts looks on my Chrome browser, is there a way to have that font-rendering engine on all my X system? Or at least on my Firefox + Thunderbird?

I was just trying to get some banner so I could point from my blog to pkg-perl group on debian. I found the LogoContest on debian wiki but not the winner and since I didn t like any of them for a banner on my blog I decided to make a simple graphic of what I think should represent pkg-perl group on Debian. You can use them as you like:

I really have a complicated environment for building my packages that only I understand (and maybe no one should try to understand if wants to maintain mentally stable). So I was building with git-buildpackage that points to a script gbp-builder that builds with pdebuild and which got its debbuildopts with and I was passing more args with a local variable (EXOP) with and guess what. It was -v5.05-3+nmu1 and I got that argument OK on dpkg-genchanges for my source.changes but not to my i386.changes. I had to put in my gbp-builder script debbuildopts with and everything got OK. I frankly don t understand what happened, why the args passed until that point and not to the last dpkg-genchanges but hey! it works now! I hope nobody pass trough this and waste 2 hours finding what was wrong and it only were a pair of . BTW, now I m DD! Second in Venezuela :D

XScreenSaver is of the most widely used screensavers app in Linux systems and works as well as a huge collection of screensavers for another apps like kscreensavers. In Debian is maintained by only 2 persons which has in this moment lack of time. Because of this we re looking for co-maintainers that should accomplish the following main [...]

So between yesterday and today I packaged the new upstream version of libtorrent/rtorrent 0.12.3 and 0.8.3 as beta. I still need to do some testing on the packages and maybe change libtorrent from OpenSSL to TLS. Anyway, in the meantime you can grab the binaries (only 386) and sources from my debian-playground:

http://debian.rivco.info/libtorrent/0.12.3-1~b2.exp/
http://debian.rivco.info/rtorrent/0.8.3-1~b1.exp/

(there may be new beta versions at the time you read this so please check as well the parent directory) Or my repo:

deb http://reprepro.deb.rivco.info/ experimental main

Hopefully they'll be available soon from the Debian Archive, just need to check some stuff before that. Anyway, they're fully working right now.

I think Jari reads my blog haha. There are shiny new packages for libtorrent and rtorrent. The same place as ever: My debian-playground: http://debian.rivco.info/ My private repo: deb ,-src http://reprepro.deb.rivco.info/ experimental main And of course, git (checkout master-experimental and upstream-experimental): http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/libtorrent.git http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/rtorrent.git

It was about time, xscreensaver 5.07-1 is ready and is being uploaded right now to experimental (for sanity check with kde components) and available as well from here (binary packages only for i386 at the link). Fixes to XRandr functions and finally xscreensaver is lintian clean since I adopted it 11 months ago. Soon 0 minors and higher priority bugs.

Today anibal(thanks!) uploaded xscreensaver 5.05-3, this release fixes the XRandR issue that a lot of people reported since the introduce of sanity code in 5.05 for XRandR (that are some quite RCs and important bugs). 5.06 is out now but we couldn't wait more to get this RCs closed, in a week or two this new release will be ready and in the archive.

Now gkrellm works with kernels >=2.6.24, since where /proc/acpi has been deprecated in favor of /sys. The binaries packages for most of the archs debian supports most be available already in the debian archive since anibal upload it the saturday. Enjoy!

Yey! libtorrent 0.12.2-1 is now uploaded to experimental (thanks bureado for the sponsoring! :D), soon I'll get rtorrent 0.8.2-1 uploaded as well. I've been using it since a while and has been working great! In a few hours the buildd network should get them built for all arches, BTW, in this version is included the support for ARM-based machines :) Prepare your NSLU2!