And let me tell you: Bioshock Infinite is definitely something different…though it seems to be a prequel rather than a sequel. Well..this is trendy these days ;)

But watch the trailer and see it yourself :)

(via Nerdcore)

Be aware that other than said in the linked post, the file has to be put in wp-admin/includes, not wp-includes. Worked like a charm for me :)

Seriously? :S

• Lots of time, because it also supports batch converting.
• Lots of nerves. Trust me.

So go, get it, it won’t get easier :)

Ohne Worte.

Comparing rendering of fonts in Firefox (or other GTK-apps) to e.g. qt-apps like Konqueror made me want to fix that problem. At first it seemed like nobody else had noticed that behaviour and I thought it would just be nit-picking again, as I always want things to be “perfect” in one or the other sense. But finally, today I found this thread talking about the exact issue that was bugging me. So I read through it carefully and finally found a solution to my problem. There are two possibilities, both involving libcairo and libdirectfb:

1. Ubuntu packages can be used. Ubuntu has a patch applied to libcairo (and seemingly libdirectfb) which makes font rendering look much nicer. You can actually install these packages without problems. Just get them from the Karmic repository.
2. Use patched packages provided by Hadret in the linked thread. You can find them here. Actually, these are the AMD64 packages. Read through the thread to get the i386 ones or build them yourself. A link to the patch guide should also be given in that thread.

Having these packages installed, you just have to enable subpixel rendering and set hinting to an appropriate value. Personally, I like slight hinting the most as it gives the whole thing a really smooth look. Settings can be made system-wide in /etc/fonts or per-user in ~/.fonts.conf. Here are the contents of my ~/.fonts.conf:

1 <?xml version='1.0'?>
2 <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
3 <fontconfig>
4 <match target="font" >
5 <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
6 <const>rgb</const>
7 </edit>
8 </match>
9 <match target="font" >
10 <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
11 <bool>true</bool>
12 </edit>
13 </match>
14 <match target="font" >
15 <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
16 <const>hintslight</const>
17 </edit>
18 </match>
19 <match target="font" >
20 <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
21 <bool>true</bool>
22 </edit>
23 </match>
24 </fontconfig>


Finally, Firefox (and XChat, and Icedove, and…) font rendering looks fine again :-)

Note that it may be necessary to upgrade some packages to versions from Debian sid (e.g. xulrunner-1.9.1) to make this work.

/usr/include/c++/4.4/ext/atomicity.h(46): error: identifier “__sync_fetch_and_add” is undefined

when trying to compile your CUDA project which is using FindCUDA.cmake, there is quite an easy solution for this. NVCC does not really like the latest versions of gcc or g++, so you have to try it with version 4.3 of both of them.

So the first step is installing gcc-4.3 and g++-4.3, which should be in the repositories of most Linux distributions, though this may have been simply upgraded to 4.4. On Ubuntu Karmic as well as Debian Squeeze it has been possible to additionaly install the older version in parallel via aptitude.

After having these installed, I first tried to modify my CMakeLists.cmake file by adding this:

set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER “gcc-4.3″)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER “g++-4.3″)

Hoping that this does the job, I was quite disappointed, as it didn’t. You have to explicitly set the flags which are passed to NVCC, which actually seems to always use the files “gcc” and “g++”. Fortunately, you can pass it a flag which tells where to search for those files. So you can create symlinks “gcc” and “g++” to the 4.3-versions of the tools in a directory of your choice (e.g. /usr/local/bin/gnuc4.3) and add the following line to your CMakeLists.cmake file:

set(CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS –compiler-bindir /usr/local/bin/gnuc4.3)

This should probably be set after find_package(CUDA) has been called. Works like a charm for me, finally :)

Eigentlich habe ich dazu nur eine kurze Frage: Wie wir ja alle wissen, ist es im schönen Deutschland möglich, eine Abmahnung ohne vorhergehende Korrespondenz mit wundervollen Zahlungsaufforderungen zu versehen. Wird das jetzt nicht vielleicht doch Überhand nehmen, wenn mans so einfach macht? Für mich liest sich das wie ein Freibrief für Abmahnwellen im großen Stil. Noch größer.

Oder liege ich mal wieder völlig daneben? :-S