Flash player v9.0 for Linux (oh yeah, beta)
I today incidentally discovered the Penguin.SWF blog, which details the development of version 9 of the Flash Player for Linux. Lucky, because I was just beginning to feel like a handicapped person not...
View ArticleYay I got a new Mac!
First post from my new Mac! Stranger things have happened: a proprietary operating system has entered my household once again. I didn’t pay for it, mind you, my boss did. *sniff* It may be some weird...
View ArticleI hate cripple-ware!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have now got an Apple MacBook Pro to work on, which obviously has its pros and cons. Sure, the machine supports X11 to a certain extent but I don’t want to...
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My first Apple Dashboard Widget
This weekend I wrote my first Apple Dashboard Widget because of a number of reasons; - I wanted to get acquainted with the OS X Dashboard Widget stuff, - I needed something to control my MythTV...
View ArticleI just bought a Playstation 3…
The thing I least expected happened: buying the Playstation 3 the same month when it got available here in the Netherlands. Yeh, well, what can I say — it can run Linux, dude.
View ArticleThings that make you go ngggggggggg
So last week, the hard-drive in my MythTV box started acting up — it was happily transcoding when all of a sudden, it showed an empty Recordings-list. I’ve had that before, so knew that MySQL was...
View ArticleQuote Of The Week #48
Marcus Brigstocke once said (and this is a pretty well-known quote I believe), “If Pacman had affected us as kids we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive...
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So I was trying to Google a telephone number…
…when suddenly Google suggested the following search term: 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 Now what the fuck is that?
View ArticleNice kit…
With the current iPhone hype it’s cool to see an open device like the Neo1973. There’s even an edition that includes a special screwdriver so you can really take that to the literal level.
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PS3 + big-ass HDTV = OMFG
So a buddy of mine bought himself a big-ass, 46″(full-) HDTV earlier this week. He asked me if I wanted to take my PS3 with so we could check it out it’s full capabilities. And in awe we were! Damn,...
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….wanted….game….so….&^%$#…bad….
…so I ordered the Japanese title, Minna No Golf for the PlayStation 3 from Hong Kong today (as have so many others). Me and my girlfriend enjoyed the PS2 version a lot and, as I’m reading lots of good...
View ArticleWhy is Skype hogging my CPU?
I noticed Skype is utilising the CPU varying between 7 and 15 %. That’s insane, for a chat app ffs!
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OMG OMG OMG my theme was hacked!
For fun I was checking out my statistics and discovered that my theme got hacked: the footer and header were replaced, inserting spammy URLs into the outputted page, together with some Google Adsense...
View ArticleAcer Aspire 7530 not booting :(
So I bought myself a new laptop last November — it seemed a bargain at the time. And I was really happy with it until the first time it did not want to boot after shutting down. The first time I push...
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NG-BASIC is moving!
Hi there people! Interesting times ahead for my pet project NG-BASIC! After long deliberation I have decided to transfer the ownership; transfer the ownership to a new owner that is going to breathe...
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NVIDIA nvagp/agpgart module woes…
So I was trying to optimise a laptop for audio playback and wanted the NVIDIA driver to use the its own NvAGP rather than the linux supplied ‘agpgart’ module. The reason being that the performance may...
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Native Instruments AUDIO4DJ & jackd & mixxx
I’ve been trying to optimise my laptop so I could get Mixxx, an open source DJ-ing application, to run on it smoothly. The only thing I hadn’t tried yet was using the JACK Audio Connection Kit, i.e....
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knobs-20091116 (Mixxx)
I once decided to create new skin for Mixxx a long time ago. But never gotten further than the actual script that generates all the different states of a “volume knob”: As I never shall get around to...
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