olpa, OSS developer

Yes, one installs and configures Samba. All I need is to access a big folder in the read-only mode. The quick and dirty solution is:

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After a small system upgrade an application started to crash with the message:

*** glibc detected *** sylpheed: double free or corruption (out): 0x0839e818 ***

The right thing is to trace the application and submit a bug report to the author, but I found a fast workaround. Set an environment variable before running the program:

export MALLOC_CHECK_=0

ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. The system can forward ALSA sound to PulseAudio.

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PulseAudio is a sound server. Applications feed music to PulseAudio, and PulseAudio decides what to do with it. For example, it can send the sound over network.

When I tried to use this feature for the first time, I failed. Therefore, I experimented with a more user friendly software (see multimedia over network I, and the second attempt was successful.

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I want to:

* run a program on a work PC, and
* see and hear it in action on a leisure PC.

The first attempt is failed, therefore I started to search for a solution using the step-by-step approach. The first step is to make sure that multimedia over networks works at all.

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I always used vim (for example, “Ctrl-K” “:” “u” for “ü”), but now I found a way to input such characters into any application, using the core feature of X11/xorg. The explanation and the table are here: “ISO-8859-1 compose keystrokes in Linux” (thanks Andrew Daviel).

Reminder for myself: on my system, it’s enough to add “compose:ralt” to the option “XkbOptions” in “xorg.conf” and use “Alt Gr” key.

After upgrading my Linux, I’ve got sound lost. Everything looked ok — all the modules are loaded, all the special devices are created, no complaints in logs, — but no sound.

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In the most cases, people use mplayer and mencoder (under Linux). For my goals, ffmpeg is enough.

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