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libxul 1.9.2 update coming

beat and me are currently preparing for the update of www/libxul to 1.9.2.8. This also includes cleanup of old gecko providers in a lot of other ports and fixes numerous security relevant problems in libxul.

We spend some time fixing ports that do not correctly build with that new version and marked mplayer-plugin as deprecated because it just does not build with libxul 1.9.2 and is discontinued from upstream. As a replacement you should use gecko-mediaplayer.

FreeBSD, PlanetFreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 02.08.2010 11:20

gecko-mediaplayer as Flash Alternative for YouTube

Flash on amd64 is a bit of a burden and I don't need it anymore because I mostly used it for youtube. Not that you can't download the video with filsh.net and watch it with mplayer or vlc but it's inconvenient.

An alternative solution for this is www/gecko-mediaplayer. For embedded videos you are already done but for youtube you also need the Greasemonkey Add-On for Firefox and the Youtube without Flash Auto Greasemonkey script. If you are on a youtube site watch out for the new buttons "View without Flash" below the video.

gecko-mediaplayer playing YouTube

gecko-mediaplayer playing tvthek.orf.at

FreeBSD, Multimedia : Read more : comments (4) : 24.07.2010 08:23

Grazer BSD Stammtisch

Da BSDler ja generell als trinkfest und gesellig gelten spielen wir momentan mit dem Gedanken einen BSD Stammtisch in Graz aufzubauen. Sinn der Aktion ist vorwiegend der Erfahrungs- und Meinungsaustausch in gemütlicher Runde. Wichtig wäre dafür aber erstmal zu wissen ob es im Grazer Umfeld Interesse an so einem Abend gibt deshalb bitte bei Interesse eine kurze Mail an mich oder einfach im Blog einen Kommentar hinterlassen.

Momentan sind wir übrigens 3 Leute und das Hauptthema des ersten Stammtisches wird sicherlich auch die mögliche Zukunft dessen sein. Als Location steht momentan der Bierbaron im Grazer Univiertel zur Diskussion.

Update:

Der Termin ist bereits fixiert am Mittwoch 26. Mai 2010 um 19:00 CEST im Bierbaron in Graz. (Anreise)

2. Update:

Das hat gestern echt viel Spaß gemacht also werden wir das wohl bald mal wiederholen. Weitere Teilnehmer sind natürlich herzlichst eingeladen!

Announcement, FreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 21.05.2010 09:26

FreeBSD at the Grazer Linuxtage 2010

For the first time ever FreeBSD had a booth on the Grazer Linuxtage this year. That was primarily the fault of Daniel Seuffert who agreed to pack all his material and drive to Graz to represent BSD with his own booth. Sure I couldn't let him do this alone so I agreed to help and also sperber and seppo helped us through the day. And I think we did quite well for the first time and also agreed to be there next year.

The event is mainly targeted at end users and enthusiastic open source users. So we were quite surprised about the interest in BSD given that this was the first year that we were there. It was also very pleasant to see all different kinds of people together and many women interested in beastie.

FreeBSD booth at Grazer Linuxtage 2010

FreeBSD booth at Grazer Linuxtage 2010

Daniel Seuffert presenting BSD

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FreeBSD, Personal : Read more : comments (1) : 06.05.2010 11:49

DVB-S Live TV on FreeBSD with MythTV 0.23 and webcamd

It's not true anymore that FreeBSD does not support any DVB-S devices. Thanks to the work of Hans Petter Selasky on video4bsd there are now DVB-S/2 devices for USB that just work.

img/articles/mythtv-0.23-DVB-1_small.jpg

The work on MythTV to get this running only took me one evening and was just because nobody compiled mythtv with v4l support lately. It also helped a lot that Jürgen Lock already played with the same device and found and fixes a few things.

So what do you need to do now if you want to build your PVR on FreeBSD?

First you need a USB device for DVB-C/DVB-T/DVB-S/DVB-S2 that is supported by webcamd. I took an Pinnacle PCTV Sat HDTV Pro USB 452e that supports DVB-S2 because I talked to Jürgen Lock and knew he had success with it. I don't know if there is already a list with all devices that work but you could have a look at the Makefile of webcamd in svn to see what drivers and cards should be supported.

Now that you have a supported card follow the instructions on the video4bsd page and build webcamd from the svn repository because the current version in ports is too old already.

At last get the latest mythtv 0.23 port from the call for testers that enables v4l support. This will get committed when they have done their release.

Finally start mythtv-setup and configure your v4l device, scan for some channels and watch live-tv with your brand new PVR solution on FreeBSD!

FreeBSD, Hardware : Read more : comments (1) : 28.04.2010 08:01

FreeBSD Wallpaper for Nokia N900

There is a lack of FreeBSD wallpapers for my Nokia N900 so i decided to cut a few of the popular ones to 800x480.

img/articles/fbsd-beastie.jpg Copyright Marshall Kirk McKusick mckusick.com

img/articles/fbsd-paefchen.jpg Copyright Aron Schlesinger paefchen.net

img/articles/fbsd-simple-black.jpg Copyright Ahmed Ossama kde-look.org

img/articles/fbsd-simple-gray.jpg Copyright Alberto Navarro kde-look.org

img/articles/fbsd-simple.jpg Copyright FreeBSD Foundation freebsdfoundation.org

img/articles/fbsd-world.jpg Copyright Valeriy Klimentiev kde-look.org

FreeBSD, Hardware : Read more : comments (0) : 22.03.2010 08:49

VBoxWeb on FreeBSD

img/articles/vboxweb-bsd.jpg

VirtualBox is a great piece of software but it lacks a webinterface. VBoxWeb is developed by some Sun/VirtualBox developers and going to fill this gap but it's not useable yet so we'll have to wait.

FreeBSD, PlanetFreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 08.09.2009 14:05

SVN::Web Charset Patch

Recently I discovered in my SVN::Web installation that they send out an Content-Type header with UTF-8 charset but i need ISO-8859-1 and there is no parameter in the config.

So i wrote a little patch for SVN::Web 0.53. If you use FreeBSD you can put this into /usr/ports/devel/p5-SVN-Web/files/patch-charset.diff and be happy with it. --- lib/SVN/Web.pm.orig 2007-04-29 19:22:51.000000000 +0000 +++ lib/SVN/Web.pm 2008-01-16 12:39:34.000000000 +0000 @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@

if(ref($html)) { print $cfg->{cgi}->header( - -charset => $html->{charset} || 'UTF-8', + -charset => $html->{charset} || 'ISO-8859-1', -type => $html->{mimetype} || 'text/html', -cookie => @cookies, ); @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ } } else { print $cfg->{cgi}->header( - -charset => 'UTF-8', + -charset => 'ISO-8859-1', -type => 'text/html', -cookie => @cookies, ); @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ if(ref($html)) { my $content_type = $html->{mimetype} || 'text/html'; $content_type .= '; charset='; - $content_type .= $html->{charset} || 'UTF-8'; + $content_type .= $html->{charset} || 'ISO-8859-1'; $cfg->{request}->content_type($content_type);

if(mod_perl_2) { @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ $cfg->{request}->print($html->{body}); } } else { - $cfg->{request}->content_type('text/html; charset=UTF-8'); + $cfg->{request}->content_type('text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');

if(mod_perl_2) { $cfg->{request}->headers_out();

Programming, FreeBSD : Read more : comments (0) : 16.01.2008 12:46