Monthly Archives: August 2009
disney + marvel
Oh, man. Sucktitude. From the PR, “This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters … with Disney’s creative skills …” That’s what worries me. Makes sense, though. I was actually surprised that Marvel wasn’t bought out … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
common alsa issues
I started a thread on the Gentoo Forums the other week, trying to get users to post what are common issues that they run into collectively. I’m hoping to see if I can find some patterns and either update the … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
tromping around mythvideo code again
I’m still trying to decide where I wanna go with my media browser/frontend solution — if I’m going to write my own or keep hacking on MythVideo. I only have one really nagging issue left now, and that is that … Continue reading
swearing off radio
I’m not sure if I’m getting older and more cranky, or am just starting to wake up to the fact that so much of media that is presented is not really what I asked for or what, but this time … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
traffic court
So, I have to go to traffic court next week, and I’m a bit freaked out about the whole thing. I got pulled over the other night for speeding (which doesn’t really bother me, I got ticketed for 10 over), … Continue reading
Filed under General
helping out planet gentoo
I’m looking for a someone to help out with Planet Gentoo if they are interested. Specifically, we host a deployment of b2evolution and use it for the developer blogs. As a maintainer of planet services for Gentoo, that’s part of … Continue reading
alsa cleanup: non-optional midi support, cleaner confd
Some more stuff that has happened recently with cleaning up ALSA ebuilds. We (as in me, mostly) decided to drop support for the optional MIDI support in the alsa-lib and alsa-utils packages. It originally was implemented as a hack on … Continue reading
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