Daily Archive for May 5th, 2008

Trillian Astra Build 78 and Wine 0.9.61

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kyleabaker
on May 5, 2008
in Applications, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Ubuntu and Windows
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I installed Trillian Astra Build 78 (I’m an alpha tester as well) via Wine 0.9.61 today and got a couple of errors. I’m using the very latest version of Wine and the very latest release of Trillian in this test. My operating system is Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64.

  1. ALSA seemed to be encountering some problems when I started Trillian since I had Rhythmbox playing in the background. I closed that and then restarted Trillian and got the following:
  2. dwmapi.dll error. I downloaded a copy from dll-files.com and configured Trillian Astra to use Windows XP settings and linked the dwmapi.dll library after placing it in the trillian install folder. The results were, Trillian Astra started and allowed me to sign-in to the astra service and launched the buddy list, but the rendering was terrible. It was un-useable. Then I started getting error pop-ups about explorer.exe that seemed to be related to:fixme:xrender:X11DRV_AlphaBlend not a dibsectionThey would only popup when I would move the mouse over Trillian Astra or the Trillian tray icon.

I’m looking further into this. Maybe there is another library that can be replaced. I’ll be back with some updates and hopefully screenshots of Trillian Astra working under Wine!

UPDATE:
I can’t seem to find anything useful searching google about most of these errors that Wine is returning in the console.

I’m still working on getting this running, however, the MSVCP90.dll library that is mentioned in the errors is not easy to understand. The dll is already available, as well as the events.dll library. If anyone has any suggestions feel free to let me know! Here is all I’ve got so far:


The rendering is still off, but at least it is legible. The buddy list window is a mesh of horrible rendering lines. It’s not clear enough to use. That’s the main thing that I’m working towards now. As long as the errors aren’t crashing Trillian, I can work towards getting it to render properly and then focus on catering to the warning errors.

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Happy Cinco de Mayo 2008!

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kyleabaker
on May 5, 2008
in News
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Cinco de MayoToday, the 5th of May, celebrates the Mexican victory over the French army at the “Batalla da Puebla.” The celebration of Cinco de Mayo first started in 1862.

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day, but is often misunderstood to be their Independence Day. Mexico’s Independence Day is actually on September 16th.

According to Wikipedia:

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a significance beyond that in Mexico. The date is perhaps best recognized in the United States as a date to celebrate the culture and experiences of Americans of Mexican ancestry, much as St. Patrick’s Day, Oktoberfest, and the Chinese New Year are used to celebrate those of Irish, German, and Chinese ancestry, respectively. Similar to those holidays, Cinco de Mayo is observed by many Americans regardless of ethnic origin. …Commercial interests in the United States have capitalized on the celebration, advertising Mexican products and services, with an emphasis on beverages, foods, and music.

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Opera Dragonfly - A day away!

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kyleabaker
on May 5, 2008
in Opera and Web Browsers
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Opera DragonflyFor those of you who have not heard, Opera is releasing the “Opera Developer Tools” named Dragonfly to the public tomorrow, May 6th, 2008! The release will be made Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 12:00 PM EST.

The new Dragonfly developer tools are aimed at competing with the developer tools that are already and have been offered by Firefox for a long time now via extensions (Firebug).

Dragonfly should (in theory) increase the popularity and use of the Opera browser by providing debugging tools to web developers. In the past, it was always some what difficult to develop web sites to support all of the main browsers and then fix problems that occurred in Opera. The old tools just didn’t cut it.

The new developer tools will provide a much more efficient and easier method of pin-pointing problems and correcting them in Opera with much less work and effort than was once required.

With more web sites working flawlessly in Opera (due to the developer tools), there will be less reason for end users to not give Opera a try. These tools will help level the playing field among the major browsers.

I know what I’ll be doing all day tomorrow. :D Make sure you check out Dragonfly tomorrow at 12:00 PM!

UPDATE:
Opera Dragonfly has been released and it is fantastic! Even as an alpha version it’s truly a handy tool. If you want to use this tool then you’ll have to get the latest version of Opera to test it with. To go that go to:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/05/06/getting-ready-for-dragonfly

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Interesting Feeds - Edition 2

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kyleabaker
on May 5, 2008
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This edition contains about a week in review of some interesting feeds. It’s gonna be long, but I did cut out a large portion of them. These are the ones that made the cut, haha. Checkout anything that tempts you!

That’s the list for this week. Enjoy!

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