http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog Chaotic solutions and random thoughts from the restless mind of a notorious problem solver (TM), by Andre Beckedorf Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:57:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All right, this post is just to stop somebody else's suffering in figuring out why writing to stdin in QProcess on Version 3.3.x-8 of Q.../Free doesn't work on Windows. Well, actually it works but just for the first line you write to stdin. There is a bug in qprocess.cpp at ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2008/03/15/qfree-bug-in-qprocess-writetostdin/ So Windows Vista finally allows to enable ClearType font smoothing for Remote Desktop / Terminal Services sessions. If you try to connect to a machine running Windows Vista using rdesktop, you won't get smoothed font typing since at the time of this writing rdesktop does not officially offer an option to ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2008/03/10/rdesktop-connect-to-windows-vista-with-cleartype-font-smoothing-enabled/ Today I'm releasing QScrobbler: a Last.fm / Audioscrobbler add-on for Quasar Media Player. As with Quasar, I've been using QScrobbler for almost a year now and finally decided it is ready for the public. ;) For more details please visit the project's homepage here. http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/12/24/qscrobbler/ Finally! Almost a year after the first mentioning of my new media player for the Sharp Zaurus and after several development hiati, I'm today officially releasing the Quasar Media Player for SharpROM- and pdaXrom-based distributions. For more details please visit the project's homepage here. http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/10/06/quasar-media-player/ Yet another minor release of my iTunes script-suite iTunes Alternative Encoders. This one fixes a character encoding issue in the Ogg Vorbis encoder script. I figured this one out while debugging my Quasar Media Player with files containing Umlauts and other non-latin characters. Ogg Vorbis files produced with the previous ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/09/22/new-release-itunes-alternative-encoders-15/ Today I'm officially releasing my extended driver and mixer for the Wolfson WM8750 CODEC / sound chip that comes included in the latest Zaurus models. The driver exposes the following new features: ability to set and control Treble, Bass and 3D stereo sound enhancement; ability to set and control various cut-off frequencies supported ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/08/09/enhanced-mixer-for-zaurus-sl-c1000c3x00-available/ Alright, this blog has been very quiet for the last few months. That's partially due to me being very busy with other stuff. I'm slowly picking up pace and getting things done again. So, here is a short update on the media player that I'm currently developing for my Zaurus. Well, actually ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/07/28/%e2%80%9cyet-another-zaurus-media-player%e2%80%9d%e2%80%a6-not-dead-yet-quasar-media-player/ I've updated the iTunes Alternative Encoders pack. The new version introduces a feature to split up the encoding process into simultaneously running parts, which essentially is a form of multithreading. This means you can now make perfect use of that multi-core/multi-CPU beast on or under your desk when encoding large ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/03/08/new-release-itunes-alternative-encoders-14/ Yet another short update on the development of my still untitled media player for the Zaurus. In the meantime it's called YAZMP. Again, I've been working on improving performance - this time on the performance when loading playlists. Before I continue, let me give a brief overview of the structure: Library -> Playlists ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/01/06/%e2%80%9cyet-another-zaurus-media-player%e2%80%9d%e2%80%a6-done-differently-phase-21-development-progress-2/ As a follow-up to my previous post "SQLite performance tuning and optimization on embedded systems" here is a very basic patch that introduces support for timing SQL queries in the sqlite3 console shell. SQLite 3.3.8: Patch against shell.c shell.c SQLite 3.3.9 CVS - shell.c rev 1.157: Patch against shell.c shell.c Two new shell commands are ... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2007/01/04/sqlite-simple-timing-profiler-patch/