September 8, 2010 – 15:15
There are two reasons why I want to have a sorted table in my software. Reason #1: Email client When I’m reading email I care most about new email, so I sort chronologically. I have a special interest in one end of the table, where the newer email is. Reason #2: Music Player When I’m [...]
September 1, 2010 – 19:33
My email lives on a virtual server and lately I’ve been accessing it with mutt on that machine via SSH. I really like mutt, but this makes things tricky when someone emails me a URL and it’s either awkward to copy & paste (e.g. PuTTY) or I’d like to look at the web page on [...]
Some good news: it looks like Amarok 1.4 can run in Debian squeeze with minimal fuss by using some of the packages from lenny. This is nice because Amarok 2 doesn’t seem to support CDDB lookups yet. First, most of the dependencies can be fulfilled using the squeeze repo: aptitude install libtagc0 libtunepimp5 libkarma0 libnjb5 [...]
“Thank you for you mail. It always gives me a warm feeling in my heart to see someone using my script” A lot of free software exists because of the work of volunteers — particularly the smaller projects for more obscure tasks, often with only one developer. They don’t do it for money. They do [...]
I was listening to some mp3s in cmus at the same time as compiling gnome with jhbuild when I was experiencing relatively frequent gaps in the music. It shouldn’t be my responsibility to juggle nice levels so I decided to try the Brain Fuck Scheduler which is rumoured to be more responsive with small numbers [...]
Just a few minutes ago I was laying in bed dozing off and dreaming about eating a taco when I had the most wonderful idea: Normally when you’re constructing a minced beef taco the meat falls out and goes everywhere and you make a mess. Why don’t we just cook up some beef sausages instead [...]
I’m really quite angry right now: half at Blizzard, and half at myself because I knew that I was going to get something like this and gave them my money anyway. Starcraft II doesn’t support LAN play. This is not just a case of needing to be online and authenticated with Battle.net to fire up [...]
When I first started playing photography properly I was content to use iPhoto to do my basic post-processing. Now I’m in a mac-less environment and I like to use GIMP to edit things. Unfortunately I wasn’t really sure what iPhoto was doing with my photo: I would just tweak the sliders until I was happy. [...]
On a friend’s advice, this week I found at the library and read The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll. Wow. What a read: a true story about an astronomer-programmer who as a beginning system administrator finds evidence of an intruder and ends up spending the better [...]