HOWTO: Install VLC 2.0 in Fedora 16
It was quite a pain to get my system up to speed for the new VLC 2.0. Running under Fedora 16, VLC has a bunch of dependencies that are, as of now, only found in the Fedora 17 (Rawhide) repo. Since I didn't want to clusterfuck my fc16, I decided to manually install the packages VLC's configure script told me were missing.
Here's the command to get the packages VLC 2.0 needs to compile. Run them through zif or yum:
PyQt4-4.8.6-1.fc16.x86_64 PyQt4-devel SDL_image SDL_image-devel alsa-lib \ alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel avahi-devel dirac-devel flac-devel fluidsynth-devel gcc-c++ \ gnome-vfs2-devel jack-audio-connection-kit-devel libass-devel libavc1394-devel libbluray \ libbluray-devel libcaca-devel libcdaudio-devel libcddb-devel libdca-devel libdvdread \ libdvdread-devel libiec61883-devel libmodplug-devel libmpeg2-devel libmtp-devel libogg \ libogg-devel libprojectM-devel libraw1394 libraw1394-devel librsvg2-devel \ libsamplerate-devel libshout libshout-devel libudev-devel libupnp-devel libv4l libv4l-devel \ libva-devel mesa-libGL-devel portaudio portaudio-devel schroedinger schroedinger-devel \ taglib-devel twolame-devel zvbi-devel
As you might've guessed, some of them are extras. Should they not be present, VLC will simply disallow whatever feature it was using, such as Bonjour with avahi.
Kurt Astley – Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up
Today is another great day in the history of the Internet. Unless you've been living under a rock in a deep, dark corner of the web, you know who Rick Astley is, what he does and how it can be used to generate endless laughter possibilities. Keep that part in mind when I go over the next piece of information.
Someone named DJ Morgoth did an amazing mashup of Rick's (in)famous hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" to the music of Nirvana's Smell Like Teen Spirit. Let me say that again. Someone used Nirvana's instrumental from "Smell Like Teen Spirit" and added the voice of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up". If this doesn't sound awesome by now, please, by all means, do yourself a favor and check the video. Both pieces fit together in a very, very creepy way:
KazooKeylele: Greatest justification of Internet ever!
This is so fucking great. Search no more. This is what the internet was invented for.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "Does this guy also offer advice on how to pick up women?"
Well yes, fortunately he does. Videos after the jump.
Typography is so cool
I didn't know the first thing about typography two years ago, but since seeing two videos (after the jump), I really started liking it. According to Wikipedia (and Wikipedia is always right),
Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), letter-spacing (tracking) and kerning.
