Comments for pgl: bits

Comment on Warhammer Online "Authentication Failed" solution by Britzy

Britzy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:02:20 +0000

Thanks man. I had the authentication error. All I needed to do was run warpatch.exe but I added the ports anyway.

I hate that sick feeling you get when an error pops us. I think its anxiety haha.

Comment on bash: variable variables by xOneca

xOneca — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:09:36 +0000

When scripting for dash you don't have the ${!var} option, so you must use the "eval echo" trick.

I have come with a simplified version of yours, omitting an "echo":

eval echo \$$tits

or, to set a variable:

value=`eval echo \$$tits`

Comment on Old man by pgl

pgl — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:39:28 +0000

Don't worry - you didn't hurt my feelings! Thanks for the link. :)

Comment on Old man by Evelina

Evelina — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:37:30 +0000

OK. I think I owe you this after hurting your feelings when trying to explain the subtle ways of drawing the ears (http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/drawing_techniques/proportions_of_a_head_1.htm)
Anyways, I just wanted to say I liked your strokes and I think its a great cute little sketch. YOu should make more of those!

Comment on bash: variable variables by pgl

pgl — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:07:34 +0000

That's right Rob - that's the first example I put at the top of the post. The others are just for completeness really.

Comment on bash: variable variables by Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:57:51 +0000

Actually, this is a bit out of date, and version of bash since version 3 (eg, after about Fedora 8 I think) can do this:

#!/bin/bash

foo=wibble
wibble=works

echo $foo
echo ${!foo}

Curly braces and an exclamation mark is a lot more intuitive than the old eval $$ stuff.

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by pgl

pgl — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:28:44 +0000

Codeur: that's brilliant! Thanks for the tip.

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Codeur

Codeur — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:13:04 +0000

Dave Crossland just uploaded a hinted Inconsolata to the Google Font Repository:

http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/inconsolata/?r=fffda675769720a297f4d239e7065f751bbe655f

This new hinted version looks excellent to me in Windows with Cleartype at all sizes. The hinting problems with bold and odd sizes of xiy's version are gone. I am VERY happy!

Comment on bash: variable variables by Jni

Jni — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:13:54 +0000

Wow... you're among top google results and you just saved me hours of work... thanks, great post!

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Vorlath

Vorlath — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:38:30 +0000

Is there something wrong with bold?

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Sumeet Agarwal

Sumeet Agarwal — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:26:18 +0000

xiy’s version looks way better on Mac, too.

Comment on bash: variable variables by manky.turd

manky.turd — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:28:46 +0000

nice work balls, this is bangin!

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by Santana Rusko

Santana Rusko — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:35:54 +0000

Great stuff as usual...

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by gyh

gyh — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:42:21 +0000

Many thanks to xiy and pgl.

Comment on screen: split windows + how to use them by Will

Will — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:54:22 +0000

I love screen! It's great because you can kill your terminal at any time, then later log back in and do: screen -D -R to re-attach.

Also, Ctrl-A, W switches between the split screen

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by xiy

xiy — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:33:47 +0000

Hey, I just came across this while I was looking to see if anyone had saved a copy actually. The site I was hosting it on unfortunately got blitzed and I lost my copies after my PC went kaput, so I'm a little bit overjoyed you managed to save it, thanks!

As for copyright, I'm completely fine with you sharing it, and Raph's license is the Open Font License, which is essentially a GPL license for fonts. So as long as he continues to be credited for his work (it should be in the credits header in the font previewer), then it's fine.

Again, thanks for rescuing it. It turned out better than I thought but it definitely needs more work!

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Peter Evans

Peter Evans — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:35:16 +0000

Hey, nice. Running on W7 with cleartype turned on etc (and with the wizard run a few times). Inconsolat-modified looks great, but only on odd-number font sized. Go figure.

Comment on Dear Linux.com, you suck. Love, pgl by pgl

pgl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:13:49 +0000

I have no idea. I guess they just did a mass import of all Linux.com users and added them to a mailman list. Idiots.

Comment on Dear Linux.com, you suck. Love, pgl by Jason Spiro

Jason Spiro — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:54:47 +0000

I've been getting emails from the Linux Foundation too. I don't know how I got subscribed. (I might have subscribed myself, but I don't remember doing so.) And I too have been having trouble unsubscribing. Ugh.

How did you get subscribed?

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by Jack

Jack — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:44:03 +0000

Turnipseed, I hope you've already worked this out - just configure OS X's RSS screen saver to read the file you generated locally with curl (eg "~/rss.xml").

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:11:56 +0000

Just wanted to say that I've found my mistake: I was previewing the modified font (by double-clicking on the file) while having the original version still installed.

Thanks anyway for your response! :)

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by pgl

pgl — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:54:10 +0000

Pretty sure!

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Pedro

Pedro — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:16:28 +0000

Hello!
Are you sure you uploaded the right font file? I can't see any difference in hinting when comparing with the original font...

Thanks,
Pedro

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by pgl

pgl — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:33:35 +0000

Eric: I've uploaded a copy of the modified version. Enjoy!

Comment on Inconsolata Cleartype: Raph Levien's Inconsolota font, hinted for Windows by Eric

Eric — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:25:34 +0000

Arg! That link is broken. That is exactly what I need. Do you by any chance still have a copy you might send me?

Thanks,

Eric

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by pgl

pgl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:17:30 +0000

I look forward to any new developments from you!

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by Thorsten Zoerner

Thorsten Zoerner — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:40:22 +0000

Hi Pgl,

by the time I wrote that comment I haven't everything ready that is now ready (like the twitter api rate limit :) ).

However - as you were the person having the idea before - feel free to share ideas in the future.

One of the things that I want to come up with is an RSS Feed for conversations similar to the search.twitter.com conversations. What it should contain are not just your tweets but in addition replies you got etc...

Regards,
Thorsten

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by pgl

pgl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:16:13 +0000

Hi Thorsten,

Nice! I wish I'd found your solution earlier.

I've actually been working with the API myself recently for work - which is how I'd do it myself now if I were to reimplement what I did in the post.

I'm not sure that I understand your question though. Could you explain what you mean about including my solution, please?

cheers,

- pgl

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by Thorsten Zoerner

Thorsten Zoerner — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:16:02 +0000

Sorry I've seen your script after doing my little development :) What I did is creating a RSS Feed for your new followers/friends - helps me to keep an overview of who is communicating with me. You find it on http://rssfriends.com/

Now the question: Do you like me to include your solution into the offered RSSes (would implement it via the search API - so a bit different approach).

Just let me know,
Thorsten (@zoernert)

Comment on RSS feed for friends' Twitter updates - in Google Reader by pgl

pgl — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:09:01 +0000

Hi Turnipseed,

Unfortunately I don't know much about the OS X RSS feed screen saver, so I can't really help. Sorry.

cheers,

- pgl