Wine 1.1.5 is out. So are new compiling errors:

The thing is, wine/debug.h must be included before any other win*.h headers in dlls/cryptnet/cryptnet_main.c

• Squish DNS (A, SOA, CNAME, NS, PTR, AAAA. ANY) tester
• DNS-OARC Web-based DNS randomness test
• Robtex RBL Realtime Block List, Domain Name Server records, IP Reverse DNS, C-Network, Domain
• Whois, Route, AS Analysis, DNS graphs
• DNSstuff IP, whois, country IP, traceroute, VectorTrace, DNS traversal, Speed tests, HTML validator
• What's my IP IP, DNS, whois, traceroute testers, port scanner
• w3dt DNS lookup, DNS traversal, PortScan, trace route, RBL check, MTU route, NTP test, remote process list
• Into DNS

"Easy for bots, difficult for humans". Not that it was the idea behind Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The proper test should:

1. work properly out of the box
2. work regardless of language settings
3. be solvable for almost all humans
4. and few Bots

But what about the implementations? Read about CAPTCHA's here.

SqueezeCenter 7.2 is officially out and not interesting anymore ;-) Let's have a look at version 7.3 which has a new streaming service. In this test I downloaded SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975.ZIP from here.

The first attempt to start the server (after unpacking and "chmod"-ding) gave me this error:

The "built-in" build-perl-modules.pl failed to install the CPAN module:

So, I decided to go the old way and get rid of the supplied with SqueezeCenter CPAN directory.

… update YAML::Syck just in case…

… and start the server again …

This error looks familiar. And after commenting line 40 in SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm (#use Encode::Detect::Detector; ) the server came alive and immediately updated the firmware of the Transporter to version 62.

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cjk32/hdcd/

According to the discussion  (here) the following command should work:

Wine 1.1.3 is out! Let's see hot it compiles on Solaris snv_95 (Solaris 11 build 95).
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WordPress has been successfully upgraded to the latest version – 2.6

After upgrading to snv_93 SqueezeCenter (quite predictably) refused to start again. The error was:

The issue is related to the same Scalar::Util module. Just force install it like explained here.

MAC (Monkey's Audio Converter) for Windows can be downloaded from http://www.monkeysaudio.com. But what about a UNIX version? Two years ago v3.99 Update 4 Build 5 was released but then the development stopped because of some contradictory licensing reasons. That means that MAC for UNIX is not maintained anymore. Fortunately, the old version still works. I compiled it under Solaris 11 x86 and use it for SqueezeCenter.

The source tar file is attached to the post: mac-399-u4-b5.tgz (MD5)

Some notes.

• To check the MD5 digest:
  % md5sum -c mac-3.99-u4-b5.tgz.md5
  mac-3.99-u4-b5.tgz: OK
• Always use –prefix=/usr/local (or any other directory in which you keep non-standard files) configuration parameter, because by default the prefix is set to /usr. You might overwrite Solaris file /usr/bin/mac (message authentication code):
  % ./configure –prefix=/usr/local
• If you are going to use –enable-assembly=yes option (you need yasm to compile assembler code) under Solaris change "sh" to "bash" in src/MACLib/Assembly/Makefile in the following line (line 214 in my case):
  STRIP_FPIC = sh $(top_srcdir)/strip_fPIC.sh

  This is what the line should look like:

  STRIP_FPIC = bash $(top_srcdir)/strip_fPIC.sh
• There is already a program /bin/mac (see above). If you don't want to use the full path to the MAC, simply rename the latter:
  # mv /usr/local/bin/mac /usr/local/bin/MAC

In order to upsample 16/44.1 stream to, for example, 24/96 and play it on the Transporter you need:
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