Internet Radio
When working from home, due to COVID-19, you do have the luxury of listening to music of your own choice. And it doesn’t have to be via paid services like last.fm or Spotify. No, you can use good old fashioned…
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Author Archive: fracpete
rsync4j maintenance release
With openssh 8.3 out, I decided to see whether cygwin had updated their repositories as well. And not only that, they also had a newer version of rsync in their repos (3.1.3+20020429). With these two important updates out there, I…
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Vimeo and youtube-dl
Yesterday, I tried using youtube-dl for downloading a video from Vimeo. At first, it looked like it was working, but then the merging of the video and audio streams failed. Bummer…After playing around with ffmpeg for a while, I got…
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Minor release of python-weka-wrapper3
Today, I incorporated some enhancements that I had collected over the last few months for my python-weka-wrapper3 library: It is now possible to specify the class attribute via its index when loading a dataset (Loader.load_file or load_any_file), rather than having…
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PulseAudio profiles
Well, the lockdown hasn’t left me with much spare time, to be honest. But last weekend, I finally had enough with my dock always resetting my default audio inputs and outputs in pulseaudio, whenever my laptop was coming back from…
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Bootstrapp extended
Today, I continued working on my little bootstrapp library for bootstrapping Java applications using Maven dependencies. The main to changes were: Downloading Maven rather than bundling it, decreasing the artifact (and spring-boot-jar) size significantly. Adding experimental support for .deb/.rpm package…
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gvim: buffers to tabs
Sometimes, it is nice to just display multiple files in gvim as tabs rather than tabs. Finally came across a post listing the command for that: :tab ball
Bootstrapping Java applications with Maven (under the hood)
Maven is a great build tool – once you get used to its XML configuration file and figure what plugins are to be used for what purpose. However, if you only want to build an application from already existing Maven…
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Bugfix release: multisearch-weka-package
It’s great when people come across bugs in your code, but instead of just moaning about it, fix it and send you a patch! 🙂 Eibe is one of those. He’s been contributing a few fixes for my multisearch-weka-package plugin…
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Maintenance release of rsync4j
On the weekend, I managed to squeeze in some time to push out a maintenance release for my rsync4j library. No Java code got updated, only the Windows binaries that are bundled with the library’s various artifacts, updating OpenSSH to…
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