Open Source Ripping

Posted on Thu 01 September 2005 in geek • Tagged with freedb, java, ripping

So it came to pass I was chatting to Andy last night and I noticed he was typing the CD sleeve details for the CD being ripped. I was surprised as thanks to the magic of FreeDB every CD I've ripped in the last few years has automagically had its …


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Gratuitous Code Post

Posted on Tue 24 May 2005 in geek • Tagged with gentoo

I got home today and had a sudden urge to run. I think this is because I've been cooped up in an office all day and needed some physical exertion. I didn't run far, but I did run hard (so to speak).

I think it cleared my mind enough that …

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Spy vs Spy

Posted on Tue 07 December 2004 in geek • Tagged with spyware

From Wired:

"But you have to support spyware if you're going to have free file-sharing applications. Fair's fair."

Reading the article it mentions Marketscore which routes all web traffic through their servers. And people willingly install this stuff on their machines. It just makes me want to cry :-(


Its a kind of Magic

Posted on Wed 29 September 2004 in geek • Tagged with linux, photos, rescue, tools

I went to New Orleans last year and took a load of photos. unfortunately when I got back I found I could not read my cameras flash card because the crappy FAT filesystem it uses had gotten corrupted. I was very annoyed with this because visiting New Orleans was one …


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Deeply Geeky

Posted on Mon 01 December 2003 in geek • Tagged with uptime

Damn, had to reboot the webserver. Be a while before I get close to my record again ;-)