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Besides that, I figured, that there are also other cases, when the sound didn’t work anymore:

• After the restarting the computer
• After sending the computer into the suspend mode and waking it up again

But actually, if you are running the alsa sound driver, I implemented a neat solution to restart your sound driver.

Yes, I also read that you can restart your sound somewhere – and actually I used this command since then until now.

The command to restart your alsa sound driver was:

alsa force-reload

After executing this command, yes, you’ll might have your sound driver back and you would be able to hear something…. but always you need to adjust your PCM volume level again.

So, therefore I wrote a small init.d script which is doing the following:

1. It saves your current PCM volume level
2. It restarts your alsa sound drivers and waits! until it is fully loaded!
3. Then after that, it restores your PCM volume level

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             sound
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description:    Restart the sound
### END INIT INFO

set -e
amixer=/usr/bin/amixer
alsa=/usr/sbin/alsa

# /etc/init.d/sound: restarts the "alsa" daemon

case "$1" in
restart)
rawlevel=$($amixer -c 0 get PCM | tail -2 | awk -F'[' '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/\n//' | sed -e 's/]/,/' | sed -e 's/, //g')
level=$(echo $rawlevel | sed -e 's/ /,/g')
echo Getting current pcm volume level
echo $level
echo Restarting the sound driver
nohup $alsa force-reload > /dev/null ||  wait $!
sleep 3
echo Restoring the volume level
cmd=$(echo $amixer -c 0 sset PCM,0 $level)
echo    $cmd
$cmd
;;

*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/sound {restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

Init.d script to restart the linux alsa sound driver – filename: sound.sh

You can place this script in your /etc/init.d/ folder – (and don’t forget to make it executable). Then you can always call it like the following:

/etc/init.d/sound.sh restart

Additionally you can add the sound.sh init.d script to your sudo commands with:

visudo

And just add this line somewhere

$USER$ ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/sound.sh

(Replace $USER$ with your username)

Well this script is not build like rocket science – and I’m sure there is a way to optimize it. I just wanted to get it work.

So be happy to use it! But also, I’m happy, if some else out there has a better proposal. I’m listening!

So happy surfing and watch Videos!

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Portfolio of Martin Wörz

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In fact, on the site for reserved variables on php.net we can figure out, that the variable HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is parsed from the content of the – by the HTTP protocol delivered – “Accept-Language:” header.

Let’s say you wrote an application and you echo the variable $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']. As a result you could find different results from different browsers. Some browsers will deliver such string as a request:

de,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3

Other browsers will deliver other results such as:

de-DE,de;q=0.9,en;q=0.8

Or even:

es-us

But what does it all mean?

Let’s take a deeper look. Sure the 2 digit country code ‘de‘ stands for German, ‘en‘ for English and ‘es‘ for Spanish. Nevertheless we still don’t know what the combo ‘de-DE‘, ‘es-us‘ and the weird number q=0.9 means, or even why sometime we have appearantly one language given in a non redundant manner by once e.g. the ‘de‘ and second by a ‘de-DE‘ code. Moreover why there are commas and semi colons and what do they mean?

I did a little research and of course, hidden through the jungle of RFCs you might find an answer.

Of course as you might expect, we can find the answer in the RFC2616, titled: “Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1″ sec14.4:

“The Accept-Language request-header field is similar to Accept, but restricts the set of natural languages that are preferred as a response to the request.” Hereby we can find the following definition:

     Accept-Language = "Accept-Language" ":"
                         1#( language-range [ ";" "q" "=" qvalue ] )
       language-range  = ( ( 1*8ALPHA *( "-" 1*8ALPHA ) ) | "*" )

By the given explanation that,

da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7

would mean: “I prefer Danish, but will accept British English and other types of English.” we can figure out, that we have the language once in a general and the other time in a regional definition. Thus the comma “,” is then actually separating the different language ranges.

In fact, by using:

explode(',' $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']

We could get each language range and then parse each one.

But still then, what about the q? In the definition above, we find ‘q’ defined as ‘qvalue’, separated to the language-range with an ‘;’. The answer lies in the following:

“Each language-range MAY be given an associated quality value which represents an estimate of the user’s preference for the languages specified by that range. The quality value defaults to “q=1″.

In fact, we could say, that the quality value aka qvalue the with q=1 is the strongest and most imporant value. It’s the default. And as we have seen, that all other numbers smaller then 1 are less important, but also accepted by the browser. That means we “could” say, that in the example above the British English is to 80% considered as being the right language for the user and General English by 70%. Of course, since the browser settings are delivering those values and the user might never have seen or touched – those settings, might be a good start to use this value for your application. Moreover the fluent French and Spanish speaking user could have also lend the computer from his Portuguese friend or have been in an internet café  in Turkey – then those values wouldn’t give us any valuable information at all. So better give the user the chance to select another language on your website.

I hope this is valuable content. Since I just did not find a good explaination directly regarding to php about the exact information on the internet, what the ‘q’ value means and people just estimated what this value meant.

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Scientists have calculated, that the sea level in 5-6 years in the Netherlands will be so high, that the Dutch water defense system around the region of Amsterdam will not be able anymore to handle the water level down. Even if they would upgrade their water system and dikes, the costs with reaching almost 20% of the GDP of Netherlands are be beyond all prices.

This leads unavoidable to the effect, that the water level will be increased to a level, where most buildings of Amsterdam will be flooded and the whole region will be uninhabitable.

These fact gave alarm to the European Union and they thought about different measures they could perform.

Considering all costs the cheapest variant to solve this problem, is, to actually buy the 219 square kilometers of land, which is the size of Amsterdam in Germany close to the city Nordhorn. This region is close to the Dutch border and belongs to the country of Bentheim. Their Count ‘von Eugen’ decided to support this project, since the great-great-aunt was Dutch. He offered his land cheaper than usual, since he call sell almost 87% of his land by moving the whole city.

City planners hired by the EU also had given notice, that in that landscape of the region around Nordhorn is almost perfect to actually build up the city almost in the same shape as before. Currently Dutch workers and water engineers are sent out starting to dig the new channels circular as we all know it from the city center of Amsterdam.

They expect to build up Amsterdam in about 10 years, but already 40% of the population of Amsterdam will be able to live in their new homes in about 3-4 years.

To cover, that all people of Amsterdam will be able to leave the region other measurement are taken to give people shelter.

Part of the measurements are all the other countries in the European Union, which have to receive people from the Netherlands and offer them their shelter.

The result is a new law, which will be enacted by the EU in two weeks from today, at the 14. March 2012. Families outside the Netherlands with more then 20 square meter per person have to receive one person from Amsterdam in their homes up to the level, that they reach the level of 20 squre meter per person.
To execute this law families, which are refusing can be fined with 5000 € per person.

To avoid a massive stream of people to one family, there is the rule, that every family with one child has to adopt a new born Dutch. For families with an income of more then 35,000 € per year or owning two cars have follow the same instructions.

The project is called ‘Sloof Lir pa’, which is a mixture of Dutch and Latin and means ‘the moving city’.

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Just today Dropbox accepted my App for the production state – and I’m finally able to provide all Dropbox users to use this app!

Therefore you can access the pictures in your personal Dropbox folder an view them in a nicely looking Coverflow – and all that online!

For the live demo click here:

gowiththeflow :: demo :: Dropbox featuring jQuery UI CoverFlow 2.2

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Today I thought about the relationship models and the differences between facebook and twitter.

Personally I find twitter a better tool for building up relations and communication than facebook because of 5 reasons:

1. Twitter is about following and not about requesting friendships. I may talk here specifically about the word “friend”.

Real good friends (where you talk about your feelings and your private stuff) in life you have not more then finger on your hands – then probably 10-15 other in your daily routine (which you tell your daily stories or s.th.)  - and the others are more or less buddies or favor relations (favor in terms of – you think about they can do a favor for you – or you a favor for them) – the “rest” is not really relevant – since you probably have forgotten where you have met them … and since twitter uses “following” and “followers” I interpret this word as more fitting… – and really aren’t you happy, that you don’t have to follow everybody? And even then if you cross an interesting person and follow them – you always give them the chance – to let them decide weather they follow you back or not.

2. Twitter is about making the message as short as possible – the best idea ever – to have not more than 160 character. As I am German I have to admit – in our language it is even most difficult to drop a message inside a 160 words message – since – we 1. have much longer words – 2. we don’t have so many abbreviations for words e.g. thank you -> tnk u, think -> tnk, like -> lk, friendship -> frndshp. We would write thank you -> Danke Ihnen(formal)/Dir(non fomal), friendship -> Freundschaft… etc. but really – our tweets are longer – and we first would need to invent a short message language… therefor English is the perfect language for keeping it short (and international) – I am just remembering the KISS…

3. Twitter has no barrier – in facebook you need start a study to understand the easy security model…

4. Twitter is secondly about films, music, other media – in facebook we find ourselves often distracted by checking pictures or ending up in YouTube watching not only the video our “friends” have posted.

5. TweetDeck is because of Twitter – not because of facebook

My conclution is:

I heard, saw and read about people complaining that if they follow somebody – that if they don’t follow back – then – they might have their reasons for it. And probably if you push them – they might not have even the chance to build up an own independent interest in you or let’s say your message.

1. So give people you follow their time – and if they might follow back – I believe it is more honest then accepting a steadily popping up friend request on facebook of the person you might want to avoid…

2. If people don’t follow you, you might have nothing interesting to present or it might be not very positive.

3. English is the perfect language for Twitter

4. Short text which is creating an “image” of a thought (in that case) more valuable then 1000 words

5. Use TweetDeck or HootSuite if you aren’t already doing it to schedule tweets

What do you think? Do you agree?

Somehow I find this quite fitting here:

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I am happy to get some comments or tweets back @Michelanglo

Have a nice day!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12710020

No, I don’t wanna blame anyone – but I don’t understand, why people are still laughing their asses of, while the media is showing pictures, while millions of families are ruined and thousands of people are dying…

I recommend: Please shut up, be quiet and stay at least one day without being fucking funny or ‘I’m VIP’. I excepted more tactfulness.

Just think about what people (maybe even in your contact list – which are DIRECTLY affected by this) might think about you…

Somehow, I see the world as a little bit “as media and film polluted” and we are not even more able to differ between action movies and the reality.

Humanity is indeed a virus – and PLEASE PROOF ME WRONG – it’s your turn

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After some investigation I figured out, that the permalink is written in the page_name in each posts wp_posts table.

Then figured out, that the WordPress function get_page_by_path($page_path, $output = OBJECT, $post_type = ‘page’) could solve my problem.

So, then I just called this method with the given permalink as path and it worked.

So for example, have permalink of our website http://www.mywebsite.com/about and we want to have that page object of the about – page:


// define the permalink path
$permalink = 'about';

// get the page object from the permalink
$page = get_page_by_path($permalink);


This was performed on a WordPress 3.0.1.

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Furthermore people might not get rid of a wall or a door just to place the speakers.

So finally, mankind had a better idea. Try to get much sound out of your already available 2 speakers. And really, it sounds amazingly good!

Are you ready to try it? Then open this youtube link and close your eyes…

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