tech troubles
[tech]
posted by tom / August 01, 2005 / 
I got problems:
- Due to a major security hole in GM 0.3.3, my GreaseMonkey project has been delayed. Nuts. Competition from others within the project proper may derail it -- they're not doing quite the same thing as I am, but they are creating a situation where there are three or four sites that want to be the central repository for all GreaseMonkey scripts, anywhere, ever. Which would be difficult to maintain. I'm hoping when the rubble clears I can just make my database a periodically downloaded version of theirs.
- I've got VNC for the Pocket PC working; I've got SSH for the Pocket PC working; but I can't get VNC working over SSH on the Pocket PC. It craps out about a fifth of the way down the first screen refresh. What's going on? This is kind of a central function of this software.
- On the other hand, Skype has a Pocket PC version available for download. The only catch is that I can't think of any scenario under which Skype would actually be useful for me. Not that that's stopping me from gazing lustfully at bluetooth headsets for no particular reason.
- Our music server resets the sound card's permissions every time it reboots, making it impossible for the jukebox software to work without me logging in and fixing things. Unfortunately I'm too clueless at fixing FC4 to be able to fix this without wading through endless support forums. Sigh.
- And, perhaps most troublingly, I have no fucking idea how this flash game is supposed to be played. I strongly encourage you to try to figure it out. But be forewarned, it has sound (although it doesn't require it).
Comments
That flash game is awesome. Everything else you said is complete gibberish.
That flash game rules. It's kindof like a reverse RPG. You have to put buildings down in order, so that by the time they are all placed, the right buildings provide the right services to let our hero defeat the purple dragon. It's really cool. Whoever thought of that is brilliant.
As far as I can tell so far, you have to put the tower and the castle down pretty early on. The castle allows the king to give you some coin and the tower gives you some armour. Besides that, I can't seem to beat it.
Oh yeah, you could fix your sound device problem in true hack form by making an init.d script that changes the permissions after everything else has loaded.
And I finally beat the game without going through all 8 factorial combinations.
does init.d run as superuser? or do I have to configure sudo to make that work? nobody else has permission to /dev/dsp, and its ownership will no doubt get switched back on reboot, too, if I change it.
I am not above ugly, ugly hacks.
init.d runs as the superuser. (Wouldn't it have to, to do all the crazy shit it does? Starting daemons and whatnot?).
The flash game is just a puzzle with an rpg-like movie at the end telling you how you did.
well, that makes sense, about init.d. Honestly, Linux system configuration terrifies me. I'm cool with ./configure-make-make install, and I got a MythTV box together, but every time I get into debugging a startup problem, entire new vistas of heretofore unknown systems spring up beneath me. For instance, I thought I had a handle on fstab, and suddenly I find that no! fstab is now rewritten automatically by some other system, and you have to figure out how to alter it. Same thing with the permissions.
Anyway, I'll wade into the slimp3 forums sometime soon and get a definitive answer. I need to know how to start up mplayer correctly anyway (slimp3 provides an mp3 stream available on localhost:9000 as a way of playing your music (queued up through a slick web interface), but it tends to close the stream when your playlist finishes, making xmms and mplayer stop playing -- this is the other aspect of the jukebox problem I'm having).
Why would some process overwrite fstab? That's just nuts.
Though gentoo rewrites modules.conf, and I've adapted to that pretty well.
I believe it's to provide support for hotswappable drives (e.g. USB volumes). I didn't investigate too far, though, since ehci doesn't work properly on my mobo's usb controller, keeping my external hard drive at usb1.1 speeds (ugh).
There's a module you can use for that, supposedly, called subfs (there's another one with a confusingly similar name). Basically, you put a line in your fstab indicating the given mount point to be of subfs type and make one of the arguments to mount be the real fs type. Like this:
#/dev/sdc1 /mnt/iaudio subfs fs=vfat,noauto,user,exec,rw 0 0
But it fucked something up, so now I just mount it manually.
yup, this FC4 thing is similar to that (but not subfs specifically).
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