Ubuntu
Posted on Sat 13 May 2006 in geek
Its nice to see the communal computer at the B&B is running Free Software. That is all :-)
Meme Speed
Posted on Fri 14 April 2006 in geek
My casual copying of a meme seems to of spread. I don't know if everyone on my friends list saw it on mine first or its just one of those things that goes in cycles. As far as I can tell the meme originated on the 27th September 2005. If …
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Will someone rid me of this troublesome music player?
Posted on Fri 07 April 2006 in geek
At work I'm a little limited on which music players I can use (basically it has to be one that compiles with the system libs of SuSE 10.0). I also want a player that has Audioscrobbler support. This has meant running beep-media-player which was quite stable although know is …
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Dear Beeb (reprise)
Posted on Thu 06 April 2006 in geek
Continuing my on and off dialog with the nations favourite institution.
"Will the BBC support other formats for their podcasting trial? At the moment only having mp3 podcasts available make it very difficult to listen to on my GNU/Linux system.
The legal status of playing mp3's on my system …
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(or weak geek) = t
Posted on Wed 05 April 2006 in geek
Last nights good intentions evaporated by 19.48 when the suggestion of visiting Sinclair's was suggested by my other late working college. I'd had my head buried in floating point stuff (like how do you make an add underflow?). Still the following pub conversation was suitably geeky and I expounded …
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