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Dyn.com has been for years a great DynDns service, offering for free this useful service. But this has changed some years ago, when dyn.com started to push its commercial offer. Now, dyn.com forces free users to log in once in a month, otherwise the account and its services is simply deleted. It seems to me absolutely inacceptable and as their paid service is much more expansive that fixed domains or other dyndns services, I decided to change. But to facilitate transition, I want to keep my dyn.com account alive. I found a great script on http://technologicalresolution.blogspot.fr/2013/05/dyndns-auto-logon.html. It was originally designed for Google App Engine, below is a standalone version. (suite…)

Compile library with Visual Studio is not always easy if those have not been designed for Windows. This is the case for libexif. (suite…)

GtkDateTime is a very simple widget to edit timestamps in GTK. See source files below. Source gtk_datetime.h [crayon-5cba34bf19efb772422771/] gtk_datetime.c [crayon-5cba34bf19f00375828771/] test_datetime.c [crayon-5cba34bf19f03482867903/]

Sharing a profile between several Linux hosts is not an easy task for the moment. You will be tempted to share exactly the same profile folder, but this will cause some problems with local settings. The easiest solution is to create a .roaming folder in which you will put all the files you want to share, and share it between all hosts. Then you will create symbolic links to this .roaming folder.

Here is a script to create all the links for you. (suite…)

Proxmox Tips

Accessing local hard drive
Have a better VGA driver
Accessing your VM (suite…)

This is a very simple a straight forward UPNP play function. It searches a file on a mediaserver and plays it on the mediaplayer. It does not include search of mediaplayer/server URLs as the UPNP discovery take some time. Use the script below to find the correct urls. (suite…)

Nothing is worse than a MP3 library with different artist spellings : a same artist will be present two or three times in the list. Thanks to Musicbrainz it is possible to normalize the spelling. This script search on musicbrainz all your files and tries to get the correct spelling of the artist. It outputs a batch file that you can check before running. (suite…)

WaveTab is a very simple Thunderbird extension to open Google Wave in a tab. The javascript has been given on some news, but is not very handy to use. This…

Here is a patch to be able to enter the password with a file. It would
allow to do some scripting without passing it on the command line, while keeping a good security level. (suite…)

This patch adds a hotkey to delete the current file from the filesystem. When typing “Delete”, the next track will be played and the current file erased. On Windows, it…