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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently I was pondering on the Diaspora project’s one month report, wondering how exactly comments on status updates were being routed. Does the person who owns the status update receive the comment on their seed and potentially have the opportunity to review it before it is broadcast? That seems reasonable. Really, though, the comment belongs [...]