miggols99's blog

I've been quite busy recently, with tests and everything...but now they're finished :) I've been working pretty hard on Software Care my Linux CD shop as well. I may get around to posting more tutorials soon ;)

I've now opened my shop, now called Software Care (instead of the boring "Archux Shop"). At the moment there isn't much stock, but feel free to have a look around. If you spot any stupid errors tell me ;) Also if you want a Ubuntu 8.04 CD, there's plenty :)

http://shop.archux.com

I'm sick of the flash player being really bad for Linux, and since Adobe have released a new bug tracker, I think it's time we did something.

Bad full screen playback together with cpu eating
Low frame rates
Flash crashing takes Firefox with it

Sign up now and vote for the problems to be fixed!

VLC with 41 votes! Personally I prefer Dragon Player for KDE4 and MPlayer for Gtk DEs. But VLC is very nice ;) So I'll be adding it to the application recommendations page...

Unfortunately, I'm unable to get a hold of a decent VLC screenshot. If anyone is out there using VLC (I'm sure there are a lot ;) Could you please take a screenshot of it playing a movie (but keep it clean!).

A while ago I posted about "Converting to SVG" and I seemed successful. But when I printed it out it was a big mess! I resorted to using the online Flash powered software MediaFACE online but today, a there was another problem. It stopped accepting my files! Although it is clearly stated on the FAQ that the upload limit is 8MB, and I am completely sure that my files are a lot smaller than that, so I was really confused.

I've now finished the banner and primary links bar. It's completely fluid, so whatever screen size you have it should work.

Shaman

The Shaman devs have got a website up and running now, but it's a bit empty. At the moment, I am helping to create a layout for it. Here's the mockup of it

What the Shaman website will look like (hopefully)

and here's what it looks like so far

The current state of development

EDIT: Ah I am being a bit stupid here...what is Shaman? Shaman is a GUI frontend to Pacman coded in Qt4. It's only been released for a few months, but it is coming on very well! For more information see the following link:

http://shaman.iskrembilen.com

I got on to printing the back of the CD case and the front insert. The printer seemed to work ok...but then I found out that it was printed out in horrible desaturated colours! I then thought I could use my flash drive to transfer the files over to my family computer and use that to print. I opened up MS Word, insert picture, then made sure it was 100% size, then printed it. I went to cut it up, then when I put it into the CD case, it was the wrong size! But the colours were ok. I was really confused!

I've was confronted with an annoying problem. I needed to open either a Illustrator, Photoshop or MS Word file and get it into Inkscape somehow. The first one I tried was the Illustrator file, because it's scalable like SVGs, so it should work right? Nope. Inkscape refused to open it. The I searched around and found out that someone renamed the file to a PDF and then converted it on a PDF to SVG converter. For some reason, it also refused to accept the PDF file.

The poll has now reached over 100 votes, and the winner is Amarok with 44 votes! I'll now be adding it to the "Music Player" page of the application recommendations...

The next type of program you will be voting for now is your favourite video player. Any major programs missed? Add a comment!