If internet memes such as the following are displaying as squares rather than the faces they should be, it’s because Ubuntu/Linux Mint doesn’t come with the correct font packages. ಠ_ಠ To install these packages, simply install “unifont”: sudo apt-get install unifont If you’re having trouble in other distros, just search for the unifont package...
Read more →It’s been a while since I bothered, the reason being it’s always seemed like an un-worthwhile struggle to get it working but either things changed or I was doing something to overcomplicate the process but it’s actually pretty simple to get surround sound up and running on your Linux machine. Now, I’m not going...
Read more →During installing the OpenNi kinect drivers, found here: https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI, I came across this error: make: Entering directory `/home/alex/kinect/OpenNI/Platform/Linux-x86/Build/Samples/SimpleViewer.net’ gmcs -out:../../../Bin/Release/SimpleViewer.net.exe -target:winexe -unsafe -o+ -r:OpenNI.net.dll -r:System.Windows.Forms.dll -r:System.Drawing.dll -lib:../../../Bin/Release ../../../../../Samples/SimpleViewer.net/*.cs ../../Res/AssemblyInfo-OpenNI.cs error CS0006: cannot find metadata file `System.Windows.Forms.dll’ Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings make: *** Error 1 make: Leaving directory `/home/alex/kinect/OpenNI/Platform/Linux-x86/Build/Samples/SimpleViewer.net’ make: *** ...
Read more →If you’re getting a similar error to this while trying to compile java files (.jar) then you’re probably missing the jdk, in ubuntu it’s called “sun-java6-jdk” so just go ahead and install that and all should be good! make: Entering directory `/home/alex/kinect/OpenNI/Platform/Linux-x86/Build/Wrappers/OpenNI.java’ javac -d Release ../../../../../Wrappers/OpenNI.java/src/org/OpenNI/*.java /bin/sh: javac: not found make: *** Error...
Read more →It’s only been a couple of weeks since the first batch of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) loaded phones were released, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but already custom ROMs are being updated to allow users of other phones to use ICS. Luckily for me, a Samsung Galaxy S (I9000) owner, development for this widely popular...
Read more →rosrun rviz rviz [ INFO] [1322561467.803234807]: rviz revision number 1.6.7 [ INFO] [1322561467.803351442]: ogre_tools revision number 1.6.2 [ INFO] [1322561467.803374070]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.3 (Cthugha) [ INFO] [1322561467.946771146]: Loading general config from [/home/alex/.rviz/config] [ INFO] [1322561467.946953292]: Loading display config from [/home/alex/.rviz/display_config] [ INFO] [1322561467.972674791]: RTT Preferred Mode is PBuffer. The program ‘rviz’ received...
Read more →Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) finally brings screenshots natively to the mobile platform, to a lot of users of custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod or Darkys ROM it may seem like this has been a feature for a while but that isn’t the case. To take a screenshot: Simply hold down the...
Read more →After installing Ubuntu on a USB stick with the Ubuntu USB Startup Disk Creator (usb-creator-gtk) you might encounter an error such as the following: stdin: I/O error stdin: error 0 /init: line 1: can‘t open /dev/sr0: No medium found This is actually a bug with the software and isn’t anything you’ve done wrong. It...
Read more →Text to speech (tts) is a difficult task to get right and there are quite a few packages that show just how hard with their terrible tinny voices, these are also usually only limited to English, which for the larger part than most people would like to believe don’t find it very useful. Nevermind,...
Read more →If you want a clock that’s a little more human, there’s no better way than a ‘Fuzzy’ clock, essentially this converts the time in to a more brain friendly format such as “Twenty past Twelve” rather than 12:22. Writing a simple fuzzy clock Source Code: Output: $ python fuzzytime.py It’s 25 to 2 Writing...
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