Oddmundo

Fixing the Places-crash in Picasa 3.6 under Wine

Oddmund — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:03:18 +0000

I recently installed Picasa 3.6 again (by first installing 3.0 from the Google PPA, and then overwriting it with the Windows version), and everything seemed to work nicely. But while program scanned for faces I idly explored its features, and upon pressing ‘Places’ the it froze and made any restart attempts freeze immediately.

Luckily, it was pretty straight forward to fix:

In ~/.google/picasa/3.0/user.reg find "active_metadata_tab"="places_toggle" and replace with "active_metadata_tab"="".

Note that it will crash again next time you try to interact with ‘Places’.

Episode IV: A New Server

Oddmund — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:36:25 +0000

I scrapped my old server and I am currently leeching on the server of the lovely TheSusanne.

Thankfully, the move posed no problems at all.

Emundo: The littlest update

Oddmund — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:41:50 +0000

So I made a sidebar that supports widgets. I'm fine tuning the css for the different widgets, trying to make it look ok.

New Wordpress theme: emundo

Oddmund — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:39:03 +0000

Tonight I began tinkering on a new Wordpress theme for this blog. emundo as I call it is made to look like the way I've styled my GNU emacs. I got the idea while using emacs-w3m and thinking that ‘this is what my blog should look like’.

Looks

At the time of writing this emundo has a 80 character wide area for the main content. I use full width bars on the Header-2 elements to mimic frames. The theme prefers Terminus for main text and headers, but will fall back to default monospaced font. The Header-1 element uses the default serif.

The theme is based on my take on the gunmetal theme by David O'Toole for emacs. My take has less fluorescent colours, but is still mostly the same as the original.

Infrastructure

Also new is that I have wised up and now track the theme with git. I set up a github repository where you can wallop in the code and cheer me on as I improve it. You might fork it too if you like.

Moving forward

For my next trick I want to tweak the fonts, add a mode-line imitation at the bottom, expand for more stuff like tables and pictures.