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So I am moving to Karlsruhe soon, to be closer to the University I’m going to be attending. Was there today to rent a room, and made a few photos. Those, plus some earlier ones from the Karlsruhe open museum night can be found on flickr. (Lol shitty quality, cellphone cam) Example image and video of a tesla coil seen there below.

I tried out Mozillas ”Ubiquity” today, and I like it. It’s still very very rough around the edges, but the general directing in which they are going seems to be a good one.

I played around with it a bit and eventually wrote a script to let me look up words in a German<>English dictionary. It’s pretty useful when you’re writing an email, blog post or comment and can’t remember the translation of a specific word.

Check out the source code or hit the jump for an ubiquity install link.

If you like my stuff, have a look at Jonas’ ubiquity commands too, he helped me understand jQuery enough to write this one!

“Eine Seminararbeit von Michael Hoffmann, Lorenz Diener, Johannes Jäger und Tobias Poot”

Basically, this was a project 3 friends and me did in our last year in school. We also gave a presentation on it, and created a smallish browser game (Now mostly defunct).

Abstractish thing rudimentarily translated into english:

Cyberspace, virtual worlds, alternate realities, nearly everyone knows these terms or has even used them a few times. But what do they actually mean? In this document, we don’t only want to explain what’s the deal with those words, but also how they affect our “Real world”.

• Project documentation, 63 Pages, 2.4mb PDF. (German)
• Presentation, 63 Slides, 5.7mb PDF. (German, but has lots of pretty pictures)
• The game, it mostly will not work, but you’re free to fumble around a little. (Also in German, but it looks really pretty!)

It has AA characters on it! (Also, I run KDE, despite this being an Ubuntu sticker. I didn’t have a Kubuntu one. Meh.)

I had the time to snap a few pictures in my uncles mill today. They will be used on the mills new homepage. Here they are, with descriptions to the best of my knowledge. There’s a new part where actual milling is happening, and an old part that is only used for storage nowadays, but still has some neat old stuff in it.

Flickr photoset: A mill

UPDATE: Flash player 10 64-bit version for Linux is out. Go for that, it can’t possibly do worse than this hack.

Flash Player 10rc1 is out, and there’s a Linux version - but still without native x86_64 support. It’s also a bit of a pain to get running with nspluginwrapper due to some new dependencies and lack of distro-specific packages. Here is how you do it. (On K- or Ubuntu Gutsy, specific directories and ways to install things may vary for your distro.)

First, remove all previously installed versions of flash player, whether you installed them by hand or via apt-get or with Adept or whatever. Install nspluginwrapper and a few dependencies, if you haven’t already anyways:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs util-linux lib32asound2 nspluginwrapper

Now, get the Flash Player 10rc1 package from Adobes web site and extract it somewhere on your disk. Copy the file “libflashplayer.so” from that archive to /usr/lib32/:

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz
tar -xzvf flashplayer10_install_linux_081108.tar.gz
cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib32/

Flashplayer 10rc1 needs the 32bit-Versions of a few more libraries to work, specifically:

• libssl3.so
• libnss3.so
• libssl.so.0.9.7
• libcrypto.so.0.9.7
• libnssutil3.so
• libplc4.so
• libplds4.so

It’s a bit of a pain to hunt all those down, so here’s a .tar.gz with all of them (Mirror). Copy the libraries in this archive to /usr/lib32/:

wget http://halcy.de/misc/flashplayer10deps.tar.gz
sudo cp flash_player_10_deps/* /usr/lib32/

You’re finally ready to let nspluginwrapper install the flash plugin now:

sudo nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/lib32/libflashplayer.so

That’s it, flash 10rc1 should work now! Unless, of course, you’re using Firefox3, which stores it’s plugins in a place nspluginwrapper does not know about, so if you use Firefox 3, you have to create a link to the plugin in Firefox 3s plugin directory:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

Now, it should work in Firefox 3 as well.

If you’re unsure if everything worked, check about:plugins in your browser, Flash 10 should be listed.