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Writing a LIRC configuration file is the major part of any remote control work with Linux. Unfortunately, the low degree of scripting available in LIRC makes this a lot harder – there is no abstraction from the buttons on the remote control to a general concept of the task one wants to achieve with the remote, which could then be interpreted by clients in their respective ways.
To address that issue, I wrote mklircrc. By annotating your
lircd.conf with a few words, you can tell mklircrc
which high-level task like "pause" or "raise volume" you want
to get done, and the script will write the LIRC control file
for you, including all applications it knows about –
currently mythtv, xine and mplayer, but more are easy to add.
I proudly present you DebateTimer, a MIDP application for your Java-capable mobile phone that supports you in timing a formal debate. After entering a speech time, a timer is started which will give a number of signals:
For timing competitive debates in British Parliament Style or Open Parliament Debate, the usage is extremely simple: Enter the length of speech and hit the Start button. Every time your mobile beeps, hammer. Divert concentration to the real tasks at hand.
I proudly present you the version 1.1 of libhyphenate. UTF-8 characters are now handled correctly and some bugs were purged. Unfortunately, I had to add glib-2.0 dependence to enable the UTF-8 handling.
On the functionality side, a lot happened: The libhyphenate not only correctly hyphenates whole texts instead of single words, but can also determine the best hyphenation point to fit the text into a given width - just what you need to implement fixed-width columns.
Thanks to Adiel Mittmann for patching bugs in the XHTML Hyphenator, which will not choke on documents containing DTDs anymore and won't leak memory now.
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