Play sound in OSS applications, using ALSA

I just used GTick (metronome). But it supports only Pulseaudio and OSS. So, I configured it to OSS sound output and started with:

aoss gtick

It works well. And no more problems like "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy".

From man aoss: «aoss - Wrapper script to facilitate use of the ALSA OSS compatibility library.»

Firefox crashes, while opening file downloading dialog

My Firefox crashed, when I pressed Ctrl+Shift+Y. This key combination open "Downloads" dialog. I found, that error message was:

firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_unescape_string

So, I found solution that helped me and, hope, will help you. Just edit file /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf and comment line (write "#" before it): "file:file".

Віденський бал у Києві

Installing wine in Debian Wheezy (Testing)

I was surprised, when I didn't found wine in Debian Wheezy repositories. But I found some solution here.

So, try this:

ARCH=`uname -m | sed -e s/x86_64/amd64/ -e s/i.86/i386/`
wget -r -A "*_$ARCH.deb" http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ 
sudo dpkg -i dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/*.deb 
sudo apt-get install -f 

After you need to delete folder with wine packages if you don't need them:

rm -rf dev.carbon-project.org/

Ha-ha. It works! Thanks for nicolaselie

MPD and Volume widget for Awesome

Here are two small and simple widgets for Awesome WM.

MPD State: Shows now playing artist and song. Works with "Pause" and "Stopped" states. Depends on mpc.

Volume State: Shows current volume status. Works with "Mute" status. Depends on amixer.

Sources and setup instructions are on: github.com.

May be, someone need them. Commentaries and proposals are welcome.

Happy New 2011 Year

Happy New 2011 Year!

Let it be more productive, more amused and more lovely for each of You.

PostgreSQL Installing screencast

PostgreSQL Installing

Video (1:52)
Video (OGV, no sound) [5,3M]

Subtitles
Subtitles (SRT, UK, UTF-8) [2,8K]
Subtitles (SRT, EN, UTF-8) [1,9K]

Start playing in mplayer
Video-only:

mplayer PostgreSQL_Installing.ogv

UK-subs:

mplayer PostgreSQL_Installing.ogv -sub PostgreSQL_Installing.uk.srt -subcp utf8

EN-subs:

mplayer PostgreSQL_Installing.ogv -sub PostgreSQL_Installing.en.srt