Archive for the 'Linux' Category

last.fm subscription

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

So last.fm have announced they will be offering a streaming service in the near future which will allow users to play any given track whenever they want. As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. I hope that this ends up being a real step forward [...]

a new toy

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

So last Friday I got a nice new toy. The Nokia n800 is a linux based internet communicator. So far I really like it. Here is Paul’s weather page. Full screen Regular mode

06.06.06

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

What a nice day. Though one of the disks in my raid array is acting up. I hate moving my computer. cheating by back dating

gam_server on ubuntu

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

So today my gam_server went memory crazy. It is a daemon that notfies applications about file changes. At one point it was using 40% of my gig of memory. I killed it and it came right back and was using 22% a short while later. Luckily the newest version(0.17) is in dapper drake and is [...]

oh my…

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

I don’t know if I can wait or not. The newest cd from Iris entitled “Wrath” is now on its way to me. I have listened to two of the tracks that are on myspace and they totally have me salivating. Sounds like Iris has put out another cd full of innovative songs. The few [...]

Why amaroK?

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

In the past two months I have been using amaroK as my main music player. Why have I chosen amaroK? It has a beavy of features. Many of which are not available on any platform or not in any other single player. Check out some of its coolest features. Update: I just found the coolest [...]

make is quirky

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

So tonight I was working on my compilers project. Josh had made a Makefile for the project but it wasn’t working. Eventually we traced the error back to a ~/ in the file. Make doesn’t like that relative path, once it was changed to the absolute path everything was peachy. I then remember back to [...]

Intuit TurboTax and Linux

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

This years version of Intuit TurboTax for the Web doesn’t like Linux at all. They won’t allow any browser in by default. Last year it worked just fine with Galeon on my Debian x86 box. I went and added the user-agent plugin to my installation of Firefox and tried the IE setting. Unfortunately Intuit TurboTax [...]

Did the quadratic formula explode?

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

If you haven’t seen Strong Bad’s newest email Virus go check it out. It is the best email in a while. “Did the quadratic formula explode? I see a ‘Strong Ba’ in there, but it’s getting eaten… by some Linux or something” All of the goodness of StrongBad in one email.

New backend

Saturday, June 12th, 2004

So I went and changed to WordPress as a backend for my journal because Blosxom was to annoying. It made it impossibily hard to edit posts since everything was based on the timestamp of the file. I learned I don’t care about having plain text files as much as I thought I would. Either way [...]