Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I wrote a simple image viewer that will load a photo image into a Gtk.Image widget using a Gdk.Pixbuf.  I then added a tool bar with four clickable icons.  Zoom out, zoom in, fit to window and original size.

All but the fit to window worked well.  When I pulled the width and height from image1.GetSizeRequest(out [...]

After much trial and error, I chose HandbrakeCLI for ripping a dvd to a h.264 mpeg4 file that I can play on my Sony Playstation 3 console. Please note that HandBrake does quite well on live action video but not so good on animation.
% sudo aptitude install build-essential
% sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev jam yasm
% [...]

A while back I removed the Beagle and Tracker desktop search engines from my Ubuntu 8.04.  As I’ve been consolidating more and more information into my home directory, I thought I would be able to simply install Beagle.

Boy was I wrong!  When I started up beagle search, I was rewarded with it dying on me:
$ [...]