Monthly Archives: February 2007
multimedia codecs
One of the main reasons I originally got hooked on Gentoo was because of its awesome support for multimedia applications. I think that support is still evident and strong. When I first started trying out Linux distributions in 2001, my … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
cleaning up realplayer support, part three
I submitted another revision bump to RealPlayer in the portage tree, and this one again just has minor changes which hopefully will help out. All I did was make symlinks of some of the codecs to the older versions, so … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
superman ii: the richard donner cut
I rented and watched Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut last night from Netflix. It was really cool to watch how the film was originally intended, though I have a lot of mixed feelings about the things that have changed. … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
scale, bugs, blah
I’m extremely tired, but I just feel the need to write, and so I will. In fact, I have a lot of stuff I want to write about, but just have not either found the time or made it yet. … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
work, work, work
I don’t think I ever wrote about this, but I started a new job about four weeks ago. Actually, I rarely, if ever, write about work. I’ve found it’s best to separate my two lives and not get them too … Continue reading
sqlite auto incrementing index
I’m still working on organizing my music, and one thing I decided to do was to put everything in a tiny sqlite database instead of storing it all in XML and shifting arrays around (yuck). I went to create an … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
alan one: the adventure begins
The other week in our local PHP group IRC channel, the topic came up of hosting, and someone threw out a mention of these guys: Server Pronto. I checked it out, and they have an amazing deal — for $30/month … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
individualizing the album
This morning on my way to work, I was listening to an Enya album of mine, and three songs in a row played that I really liked (and remembered well), and I asked myself, “wow, which CD is this?” It … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
gentoo bug funness
Gentoo’s bugday was this weekend, and I think it went off rather well. I got to scractch a lot of itches of mine, mostly cleaning up amd64 bugs, and beating them down from an incredibly insane level to an embarrassingly … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
