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When I updated to ubuntu 10.10, I had this mysterious problem.

The sub-woofer just worked one time right after I clicked the "5.1 System" in the ubuntu sound options. As soon as a song ended, the sub-woofer was mute again.

I expected this to be an issue of the pulseaudio integration in 10.10. The reason was way simpler!

In 10.10 by default:

enable-lfe-remixing = no

is set in

/etc/pulse/daemon.conf

Just change this to

enable-lfe-remixing = yes

and pulseaudio will mix the 2 channel sound tracks up to the 5 channels including LFE!

Today I expirienced the issue, that

empathy (the ubuntu icq, msn, facebook, ... client) was not able to connect to ICQ anymore.

To fix that issue, just install pidgin ppa (yes, I know you want empathy, but you'll need libpurple to fix it for empathy!).

Then

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

You'll see something like:

Configuring libpurple-bin ein (1:2.7.5-1ubuntu2+pidgin1.10.10) ...
Configuring libpurple0 ein (1:2.7.5-1ubuntu2+pidgin1.10.10) ...

and everything is fine again. Just restart empathy!

Thanks to twenty-three for the hint.

Today I updated the YtMooPlayer.js-component (

showcase).

A while back the youtube chromeless api of google changed, so it was manadatory to set the "version"-parameter.

The new 1.0.1 version of YtMooPlayer.js fixes this issue.

You can download the youtube mootools class at dracoblue.net or pull the source from github.

Today I am pleased to announce the availability of the Agavi PHP DebugToolbar for download. After the success of the Qos-Filter for agavi, I want to relaunch the useful agavi toolbar with a different name, a better look and feel and a way better code base.

Screenshot:

What is PhpDebugToolbar? Like you can see on the screenshot, it's a little Toolbar (written in JS+CSS), which keeps track of all stuff happening in your php agavi application. So you can easily spot memory leaks, time exhausting tasks and extensive usage of database queries (with the doctrine extension).

Additionally it integrates easily into the logging system of agavi, just add the PhpDebugToolbarLoggerAppender class in your logging.xml!

Where to download Toolbar? The source can be found on github now http://github.com/DracoBlue/PhpDebugToolbar, feel free to fork it and send pull request with new features!

Download for PhpDebugToolbar 1.1.1 (just 20KB) is also available here at dracoblue.net.

Short installation and configuration information can be found in the readme. Thanks to all contributors!

This is meant to be a lightweight alternative to the unofficial Agavi Debug Tools. It won't have FirePHP output or other neat features, which ship with Agavi Debug Tools. So if you need them: use adt, please!

One core feature of spludo, is the powerful logging system. This system is entirely independent from spludo, so you may use it in your own (even non-spludo) nodejs project with ease.

Like described in the tutorial about configuration, you can easily add logging facality to every prototyped class:

DocsManager = function() {
    // ...
}

extend(true, DocsManager.prototype, Logging.prototype);

DocsManager.prototype.logging_prefix = 'DocsManager';

It's important to add #logging_prefix, otherwise the methods won't know which class originally had the function implemented.

Usually you use it with just one parameter: