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git.kde.org

There isn’t much screenshots to show off, given it is effectively just converting a string with an email into a URL for a image.

And thanks to Martin Sandsmark for coming up with such a great name. Now I expect him to show off what it can be used for. Another thanks goes to Andreas Hartmetz for going thru the code & api.

So I did it.

_avatars._tcp.pusling.com. 43200 IN SRV 10 10 80 static.pusling.com.

and in my root dir for that one I have source/ and avatar/

$ ls
avatar source

In source, I have default.png which I’m serving and a series of avatars for various email addresses

$ ls source/
debian@pusling.com default.png

and then I have a simple script to generate the right file names:

#! /bin/sh

(cd avatar;
ls | while read file ; do [ -L $file ] && rm $file ; done
)
for i in source/*@* ; do ln -s ../$i avatar/$(echo -n $(basename $i) | sha256sum | sed ‘s/-//’) ; done
for i in source/*@* ; do ln -s ../$i avatar/$(echo -n $(basename $i) | md5sum | sed ‘s/-//’) ; done

and the last piece of magic to get everything to work:

$ cat avatar/.htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 “/source/default.png”
ForceType image/png

<Files “index.html”>
ForceType text/html
</Files>

and a set of index.html files created with ‘touch’.

So there you go. A simple libravatar service, ignoring some pieces of the spec, but it should be good enough for most people. I might save my rants about the libravatar spec for another day. But it involves implementing a complete redirecting service and scaling of images.

When will debian.org and kde.org start providing avatar services?

Tilgengæld har jeg noget i .xsession-errors der sikkert vil glæde jer.

java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:131)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:150)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:101)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.tools.JarSigner.verifyJar(JarSigner.java:287)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.tools.JarSigner.verifyJars(JarSigner.java:247)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.verifyJars(JNLPClassLoader.java:902)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:390)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.(JNLPClassLoader.java:168)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:249)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:575)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:548)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:729)
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:131)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:150)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:101)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.tools.JarSigner.verifyJar(JarSigner.java:287)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.tools.JarSigner.verifyJars(JarSigner.java:247)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.verifyJars(JNLPClassLoader.java:902)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:390)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.(JNLPClassLoader.java:168)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:249)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:575)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:548)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:729)
net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: Could not initialize applet.
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:604)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:548)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:729)
Caused by: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: A fatal error occurred while trying to verify jars.
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:396)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.(JNLPClassLoader.java:168)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:249)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:575)
... 2 more
Caused by:
net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: A fatal error occurred while trying to verify jars.
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:396)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.(JNLPClassLoader.java:168)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:249)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:575)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:548)
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:729)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.sourceforge.jnlp.NetxPanel.runLoader(NetxPanel.java:99)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:380)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:430)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
java.lang.Exception: Applet initialization timeout
at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:637)
at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.handleMessage(PluginStreamHandler.java:270)
at sun.applet.PluginMessageHandlerWorker.run(PluginMessageHandlerWorker.java:82)
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to handle message: handle 71305979 for instance 1
at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:660)
at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.handleMessage(PluginStreamHandler.java:270)
at sun.applet.PluginMessageHandlerWorker.run(PluginMessageHandlerWorker.java:82)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Applet initialization timeout
at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:637)
... 2 more


Gad vide hvad der foregår?

ps.: NemId virker fint når jeg skal i banken.

Luckily there is a couple of easy workarounds. Like modifying the Javascript to check things at runtime using some browser specific addons. Or just do it like I did and write a actual browserplugin. I cheated and used QtBrowserPlugin. Then my actual code was a couple of lines. Want to check it out? Look here: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fsune%2Ffakeacrobat.git. It just does enough to ensure the test succeeds. Work in: iceweasel and arora. For some reason, it doesn’t work in konqueror/webkit nor in konqueror/khtml.

At each meal, we attended 12 people, but it wasn’t the same people every time. And a couple of people participated remotely.

Several people, including me, got their feet wet in kdepim & akonadi code. Talks about the future with Qt 6 and Qt 7 and Akonadi 3 were also held in the corners.

Hopefully, others will tell more closely about what they did, including fixing kmail memory usage to not grow until all headers of all emails was in memory and improving the address completion job to help filling in to/cc/bcc fields.

Personally, I started off several times with the same issue. Not doing several synchronous calls from KMail to Akonadi during message writing and sending. On my way, I cleaned up some code and started over a couple of times. And the code is still a work in progress on my laptop. But the most important synchronous call is in that WIP patch now actually asynchronous \o/. There is still work to do on that area though and I hope to get around polishing it and finishing it this month somehow. I currently have function names like ‘second_half_of_generateCryptoMessages‘ and ‘this_function_should_be_renamed‘.

And next up will Andras Mantia hopefully blog about his accomplishments. And poke some other person for a blog post.

Oh. and if you like developers taking a weekend or so out of their busy schedule to meet up for hacking, please consider supporting KDE by Joining the game

I have been toying around as a web dude and created two nice pieces of oldschool webby software.

So. Time to introductions:

Dodoma is a simple online note taking application. I have created a boring homepage for it on http://sune.vuorela.dk/dodoma and I have a screenshot here:

Kadaka is a simple rss reader showing the five newest items from various rss feeds. Has special support for youtube channels.
I have created a boring homepage for it on http://sune.vuorela.dk/kadaka and I have a screenshot here:

Have fun with those two apps. Patches always welcome.

Some of you might wonder “where does he get those crazy names from”. Well. One of them I found on a map. Thats actually a way I name quite many of my projects. Even those that don’t even leave my harddrive. And the other one actually also is on a map, but I saw it on a frequently used bus in Tallin, Estonia.

And. I am considering naming my next fancy projects after some of the cool words found on the join the game member page. If you want to be part of that, feel free to Join the game!

Last time (Akademy 2010 in Tampere), Inge, Ryan, Chani, Martin and me were on such a boat and it was a nice experience.

Anyone up for such a experience this year ?

You hopefully know how to reach me

• Take username
• Your own secret
• The vote token

and sha256 it in the right order with the right separator chars and so on.

All sha256 sums are published together with where the vote was, so voters can verify that they are counted correctly.

After failing to construct a couple of times on the command line, I decided to write a small GUI app to help me instead.

There it is. Nice. Simple. Effective.

Sources available. http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fsune%2Fkrapyl.git&a=summary – have fun, and remember to verify your votes.

So. In line with another blog post of mine about getting the small utilities we all write and just let stay in a drawer (or somewhere in ~ on a local computer), I’m announcing it’s existance. That application became famous and even mentioned in Linux Weekly News, but I don’t expect that here. But anyways, here it is: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch/sune/networkstatus.git.

And a picture of it, it is not pretty but well, it’s a tool mostly for developers, not for end users.

Have fun, and I hope to see more of these small projects from various people.

I have a small job doing a wordpress site for some people, and I needed a image with the site title in a font matching some specific criteria (like a double story lowercase A and a small serif on lowercase L, while in general being a Sans Serif type).

So what I needed was a application that let me write a word or a phrase, and see it written with all available fonts on the system.

So, it took a little more than a effective hour and 120 lines of code to come up with this:

Click to see image

And if anyone cares, I have pushed the sources to git.kde.org.

I’m sure many of you also have various such small apps. Let’s see them. That’s also you Eike and your svgtoy app :)

Another thing I learned from this app is that the ukij fonts targetted the Uyghyr language actually is very interesting also for western europeans.