Spotify acknowledges this:

Spotify uses the system-supplied MP3 decoder on all platforms, and during our limited testing we found the Wine decoder to be excessively unstable on quite a few MP3 files, including some from our purchase partners. We are therefore blocking codecs with the identifier “WINE-MPEG3″ until the Wine system works satisfactorily.

One workaround I found involved recompiling or binary-patching WINE. Not so fun.

The official support forum contained a solution based around installing Windows Media Player 10. I have downloaded and installed it now according to the instructions, but already the playback froze once. Well, Spotify isn’t perfectly reliable in WINE anyway, so this is probably Good Enough.

The Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [PCI 8086:3582] needed Workaround A: Re-enable KMS found on Lucidi8xxFreezes to start X.

My Huawei E620 USB Modem [USB 12d1:1446/12d1:1001] for mobile broadband worked after removing the /etc/udev/rules.d/15-huawei-e1551.rules file I used to get the same device working in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).

After that I added AAAA records for the .se domains I buy through Loopia, including this one. Some of my domains are on easyDNS and they do not appear to support AAAA records until the new member interface launches. According to 1,5 years old information it should add AAAA support.

For testing I added an IPv6-only record for this server: ipv6.divideandconquer.se

It’s actually just a page showing a screen shot and the name of the file that is currently playing, together with some commands to remote control XBMC.

Available commands are pause/resume, stop, play another file, and shutdown.

I also implemented support for showing notifications on the XBMC screen, which gave me an idea:

The Google Calendar can e-mail reminders for appointments. If XBMC is running, the reminder could be shown as a notification on the XBMC monitor.

I was just about to start implementing this calendar-reminder-in-XBMC when I reminded myself that there are many other small and big projects that would be more valuable for me. But instead of throwing this idea right down the trashcan I decided to blog about it first. Done!

Now I’ll spend some valuable time with my son!

#!/bin/sh

if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]; then
  exec sudo $0 $@
fi

find ~david/Maildir -name dovecot-keywords | (
while read keywords; do

  DIR=`dirname $keywords`
  #echo $DIR >&2
  # XXX only supports 10 keywords
  CHAR=`awk '$2 == "Junk" { print $1; quit;  }' $keywords |
    tr '0-9' 'a-j'`

  if [ "$CHAR" ]; then
    find $DIR/cur $DIR/new -regex "[^,]*,[^,]*$CHAR.*" |
      xargs sa-learn --dbpath /var/lib/amavis/.spamassassin/ --spam
  fi

done
)
/etc/init.d/spamassassin reload

Helpful pages: Maildir format used by Dovecot, Spamassassin with amavis: Tips and tricks.

Due to the Big Corporate Firewall all Internet access must go through the the Enterprisey Proxy so I immediately suspected a firewall/proxy issue. However, Update Manager, apt, etc have worked fine for a long time, so it must be something upgrade-specific.

Some debugging and googling led me to the url_downloadable ignores proxy settings bug report. Maybe I should have enabled jaunty-proposed but to get going I simply applied the attached patch and was able to get started with the upgrade.

Is it libjavaplugin_oji.so? If so, you should update to the new Java plugin. Run:

sudo update-alternatives --config xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so

Now select libnpjp2.so instead and restart Firefox.

Source: Out of date java 6 plugin installed.

Most date formatting comes from the DATE FORMATS section in include/config.php but even after changing these date formats I still don’t get all dates displayed as I would like.

For example, the text box for the date when editing an item is using the TZN_DATE_FRM constant defined in include/classes/tzn_generic.php. There’s a pretty naïve comment in the source code, saying that there is a “US format” for dates and a “rest of the world” format. Fortunately (for the US), the rest of the world is not united in opposition.

To get the date format I wanted I changed the constant definition like this:

define("TZN_DATE_FRM","%Y-%m-%d");

• outmail002.ash1.tfbnw.net – 69.63.184.102
• outmail004.ash1.tfbnw.net – 69.63.184.104
• outmail007.ash1.tfbnw.net – 69.63.184.107
• outmail009.ash1.tfbnw.net – 69.63.184.109
• outmail110.ash1.tfbnw.net – 69.63.184.110

CBL is not very informative, but writes:

ATTENTION: If you are running IPSwitch Imail, or similar shared hosting software, please contact the CBL by email. If you are running Ensim, please read this for a workaround. Otherwise, this IP is infected with/emitting spamware/spamtrojan traffic and needs to be fixed.

This will prevent me and others using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org from receiving some Facebook e-mails. Good thing they are not so important! :-)

Update This was corrected around midnight (UTC) between Saturday and Sunday.