ROFLcopter ASCII Text
Posted by HokieTux on March 2, 2009 in General
EDIT: If you know how to make WordPress stop mangling whitespace in comments, please leave it in a comment and let me know! As you can see, everyone’s ROFLCOPTER comment posts get totally owned.
I’m tired of searching the web for the ASCII version of the ROFLcopter whenever I need it, so I’m posting it here to make it easy to find.
ROFL:ROFL:LOL:ROFL:ROFL | L /--------- LOL=== []\ L \ \ \_________\ | | -------------/
And yes, there are plenty of times that I ‘need’ the ROFLcopter text.
Edit:
Below is an alternate version, posted by Dark Emporer in a comment. Thanks!!
ROFL:ROFL:LOL:ROFL:ROFL ______|_____ L / \ LOL=== []\ L \______________\ | | -------------/
Edit #2:
iampatrick4life has contributed a version that will work on sites that cut whitespace, like GameFAQs: Comment #209
Videos Freezing After 2 Seconds
Posted by HokieTux on January 22, 2009 in Hacks
Two work-arounds in one day!
Today, my Flash player seemed to stop working while trying to watch a YouTube video. It would play two seconds (without audio), and then freeze. If I skipped ahead in the video, it would simply play the next two seconds (again, without audio), and freeze.
Googling around, there are a bunch of fixes including re-installing Firefox, deleting & re-installing Flash, and a few others even more drastic including re-installing all media codecs.
I’m still not sure what the problem is, but I think it is in Firefox. All I did to fix it was completely close firefox (I even issued a $ sudo pkill firefox to make sure), reopen Firefox, and told it NOT to reload tabs. Sure enough, video playback was fixed.
If anyone has more information as to what is causing this, please post it!
Firefox version: 3.0.5
Cheers!
Xorg 1.5 & Device Detection
Posted by HokieTux on January 22, 2009 in Hacks
Apparently the Xorg developers have added some sort of device autodetection in one of the recent releases of Xorg server v1.5+
Unfortunately, this seems to be breaking a lot of system configurations – mine included. I have been using HAL and evdev to detect and configure my system input devices, and as soon as I updated xorg to the new release things started breaking. If you are experiencing any of the following:
- Wrong keyboard layout / keymap
- Xorg freezing on startup
- Black screen
- Mouse won’t respond
- Keyboard doesn’t respond
- Mouse actions seem to be really, really sped up (this is a strange one, and seems to only happen in composite window managers)
… then this might be your problem! Here’s the fix:
Head to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and find the “Server Flags” section. If for whatever reason you don’t have a “Server Flags” section, add it just under the “Module” Section. Now, add the “AutoAddDevices” “false” option (ignore the “Xinerama” option – that was put there by nvidia-xconfig):
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection
Hold onto your helmet and restart X11 – hopefully, things work.
If you are still having problems, feel free to post here and I’ll help if I can!
Cheers!
vimrc updated
Posted by HokieTux on December 3, 2008 in Code, News
This is just a heads-up that the vimrc I provide via bzr (or via direct link) has been updated. Tom recently found a site or two that had some nifty settings I hadn’t stumbled across yet. Changes include:
- Now using smarter buffer-management via ‘set hidden’
- Window title will now make sense
- *** No longer have to scroll to bottom of screen for your screen to start scrolling! There is now a 15-line DMZ between your cursor and the bottom of the window! Sorry for the asterisks… but this is the feature I’m most excited about.
- Some smarter key mappings
- Menu-completions for command-mode options/commands
- Enabled the ‘matchit’ plugin (available in most repos)
There are a few other usability changes if you really feel like digging through it. If anyone has anything they think should be added, please post and let me know!
You can find the file here: http://git.hokietux.net/configs.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/global/vimrc
I’m Still Alive
Posted by HokieTux on November 19, 2008 in General, News
This is really just a ‘ping’ post to say that this site is still up and I plan on getting back to it as soon as I can. This semester, the last of my time as an undergraduate, has been extraordinarily rough in terms of coursework. I have had just about no time to do anything but work, and so updating this blog and website quickly got put on the back-burner.
As of start of classes in January, I will be a GRA here at Virginia Tech, pursuing my Masters in Computer Engineering. I very much hope to have more time to keep this site updated with new, useful material.
So, I’m Still Alive, and I’ll be back soon!
