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Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track

I have wanted this for a while, and my brother linking me to this post was the last straw.
So here is a very quick and simple plugin; it simply puts a button on the toolbar that you can click when you want to stop playback after the current song. I based the toolbar button code [...]

Posted 07 April 2009 † Porges § code ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Annoyances with Intrepid

After having just installed Intrepid on a friend’s PC last night:

I ran into this bug (here’s the fix)
ATi’s dual monitor setup is still too hard (here’s how to do it)
ATi’s drivers can’t do compiz and video at the same time (Install the latest drivers to fix it)

Posted 27 February 2009 † Porges § commentary ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Cleaning up a set of tags with Awk

Introduction
David R. MacIver has recently written this blog post about cleaning up a set of tags. This blog post, on the other hand, is about a nice old Unix tool called ‘awk’.
Awk is one of those programs that is often overlooked. It is really a small domain-specific language for processing text. In some ways it [...]

Posted 28 January 2009 † Porges § code § commentary § replies § utility ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Generating x86 assembly with Haskell

A quick and dirty example:

data Exp = Lit Int — literal value
| Call String Exp — calling a function
| Bin BinOp Exp Exp — binary operations
| Param — the parameter
deriving (Show,Eq)
 
data Function = Func String Exp — a function has a name and expression
data BinOp = Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide deriving(Show,Eq)
 
– an [...]

Posted 04 November 2008 † Porges § code ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,