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Chromium YouTube crash by Vale

For quite a while Chromium has been randomly crashing when i tried playing YouTube videos. To be more exact, those tabs with YT videos open crash (not just the plugin, nor the whole browser). Sometimes it doesn't crash, sometimes it does. I managed to narrow it down to that it mostly happens if i have more than one YT tabs open. True, sometimes it crashes with only one open as well, but a reload usually solves that. Also it often crashes tabs when i try to play embedded videos.
So far the only solution i could find was having only one YT video loaded at a time (videos that haven't started buffering (most embedded ones) don't count), and always play them on a separate YT tab. Some videos keep crashing even then, and I can't think of any reason why one video would crash and others not.
I don't know what causes it, because it happens even if i enable HTML5 on YT and disable the Flash plugin, but it's sure annoying as fuck.
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On since May 5, 2012 10:50:49
Travail 55 minutes, 19 seconds
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Aegisub 3.0 on Ubuntu by Vale

After the Ubuntu distro update to Pangolin of course more stuff broke at first than were fixed, Aegisub being one of them. I had 2.1.9 before, but since the svn trunk is already the 3.0, i rather grabbed that than the older version (r6737). Installing, I was (of course) again faced by the annoying wxWidgets errors during configure. For 2.1.9 I just worked around it somehow, but this time something snapped and i just got wxGTK 2.9.3. If only it was that simple…
I had lots of problems with both wxGTK and Aegisub, but after a day or so I managed to get it working with help from an Aegisub dev. For wxGTK: ./configure —with-opengl —enable-debug —enable-debug_gdb —enable-debug_cntxt —enable-stc, then after the install also run ldconfig. Then for Aegisub: ./configure —enable-debug. I had to use the debug options, because we were debugging it, but i think it should work without them.
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On since May 5, 2012 7:27:27
Travail 9 minutes, 30 seconds
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HDMI underscan by Vale

The other day I was translating late night and I had to use my headphones to catch a few lines. However the output from the jack of my speakers was so crappy that I rather decided to rather fetch my HDMI cable and connect my screen using that, then use the screen's audio output.
Why didn't I use HDMI until now, even though it's supposed to be superior? That's quite simple. I tried connecting it once, then this quite big black frame showed up. I couldn't fix it instantly so I just gave up and rather connected using the analog cable. This time I didn't give up so easily and googled. It took me a while to figure out what this black frame thing was called at all, and then how to solve it. It's called underscan (related to overscan, in which case (I think) there are parts off the screen), and it's a pain in the ass to fix. On Windows it's in the ATi Catalyst control center, Graphics > Desktops & Displays, right click on the screen > Configure > Scaling.
On Ubuntu, i couldn't find any relevant options in the control panel GUI so i terminal'd. I tried two commands, aticonfig —set-pcs-val=MCIL,DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan,0 and aticonfig —tv-overscan=off. Then I rebooted and it was all right. Dunno which one did the trick.
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On since May 5, 2012 7:15:17
Travail 12 minutes, 51 seconds
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言語の変進 by Vale

もともと「変進」って言葉自体、今変化と進化を混ぜて考え出したものだし。何の話かというと、氷菓で折木が読んでた坂口安吾の堕落論を読み始めたがきっかけ。読み始めたが、苦労する。なぜなら、50年前の日本語って超読みにくいでございます。「大君のへにこそ死なめかへりみはせじ」とかでてきたりして読んでも読んでも分からない。日本語学校の頃一回脱亜論を読もうとした記憶があるが、まあそれは明治だしわかんなくてもびっくりはしないけど、堕落論は1946年だよ！わずか65年前なのに辞書ひかずに半分ぐらいしかわからないって何だよ。親父もう小学生だった頃なのに読むに苦労する。それに比べてシェークスピア(16世紀)とかカント(18世紀)を原書で読んでもわかる。
頑張らなきゃね。
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On since May 2, 2012 3:57:32
Travail 13 minutes, 16 seconds
Related to Literate, Estus Inter
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Klubos életem by Vale

Ha már nem blogolok szinte semennyit (nincs tőle lelkiismeret-furdalásom, csak néha), legalább ha teszem, írok is valamiről. Mostanában (mondom, mostanában, de igazából már egy éve ez megy) nincs nagy változatosság: vagy klubos banzáj van, vagy arra próbálunk, vagy valakikkel valamilyen ürügyből (vagy minden ürügy nélkül) végigsörözzük az éjszakát, vagy itthon ülök és fordítok meg úgy csinálok, mintha értenék a fordításhoz.
Március közepén volt a végzősök három napos bulija, ami előtt meg után további három napot kellett készülődnünk-takarítanunk, nagyon izgalmas volt valóban. (Főleg, hogy nem léptem fel, mert nem fért bele a többi tagnak.) Mondjuk cserébe a záró ivászat jó hangulatú lett, reggelig ment.
Aztán voltunk csütörtökön cseresznyevirágzást nézni is (meg azon kívül többször is, de most azokra nem térek ki), ami szintén elég kellemesen elgörbült. Eleve úgy indult az este, hogy üldögéltünk a cseresznyefák alatt sörözgetve, amikor egyszer csak az tűnt fel, hogy a srácok mellettem az egyik lánynak azt magyarázzák, mi az az éjszakai magömlés. Egyetemisták. Végzősök. Komolyan.
Ma egész délután a holnapi évnyitó fesztiválos fellépésre készültünk, színpad építés satöbbi. Alig várom már.
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On since April 20, 2012 18:35:53
Travail 10 minutes, 9 seconds
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