Monthly Archives: January 2006
forget security patches, give me bugfixes!
One reason I absolutely adore open source projects and programs is that all the nitty little bugs that annoy me usually go away pretty quickly within the release cycle. Especially so if the program has a GUI. Microsoft, on the … Continue reading
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rhapsody thinks i'm a country fan
I signed up for Rhapsody today, because I remember hearing that they had support for a Linux player. I’m always pretty skeptical when I hear stuff like this, but I decided to check it out anyway. Sure enough, they have … Continue reading
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dvd2mkv magic
My little dvd2mkv script is coming along. You can actually pop in a DVD, run the script and come back a few hours later and you’ll have a nice shiny Matroska file complete with chapters and all. I’m actually pretty … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers, Multimedia, Transcode
here's a good feed
if you like pretty nature backgrounds, thats mostly what I grep from it. Gnome Art
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TV overscans and CD soundtracks
What do overscans and soundtracks have to do with each other? Not a thing, really. But, they are two good things that happened to me on Sunday. The first one was a bug that I’ve been having with my PVR … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Multimedia, MythTV
gotta love gentoo
I was listening to some music I was streaming from my box at home to here at work as I setup some stuff, and while I was compiling an upgrade in the background, my Beep Media Player stops randomly. At … Continue reading
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ghosts in the machine
I was talking to my friend tonight about my random problems with the database at work. There are just random things that happen to it, that we cannot figure out for the life of us. We’re planning on switching to … Continue reading
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death to sql server (part 2)
This one isn’t a rant, just another head-scratching-that’s-an-odd-thing-to-do kind of post. One of the main scripts was running slow tonight that gets hit on a regular basis, and we couldn’t figure out why. So, we do what we do when … Continue reading
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bend and dvd2mkv
I’ve been working on bend a lot lately (my PHP script to rip DVDs), and am taking a break to work on a different script — dvd2mkv. dvd2mkv will basically be a somewhat interactive PHP script to rip a DVD, … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers
death to sql server (part 1)
Just for a background .. anyone who has talked to me for more than 30 seconds about databases knows that I hate Microsoft SQL Server with a passion. The real bonus is that it’s not just an unfounded passion! I … Continue reading
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