general conference cddb project
As part of the Mormon Documentation Project, I just uploaded the first release of a new project of mine, CDDB files for the General Conference session discs. Available here: http://mdp.nephi.org/cddb/… Read more »
in praise of good dvd authoring
Warner Brothers has always, in my book, put out the best DVDs of the major studios. I’m not talking about movies, but the technology. They backed the format when it… Read more »
mplayerplug-in mp3 config tweak
The version 3 branch of mplayerplug-in went stable recently in portage, and one of the things it does is handle a lot more MIME types, it seems. I have my… Read more »
all this and a dongle, too!
I finally got my usb wireless nic working in Gentoo. The solution? Emerge the stable packages with a good kernel. It’s always the situation you try last that works. Even… Read more »
a week of wireless
I’ve been playing a lot with wireless this week. I remembered we had a D-Link USB wireless thing at work, so I plugged it in my desktop and played around… Read more »
another ipod convert
That’s right, I’ve joined the masses. I bought an ipod nano (4gb) the other day, and I gotta say, I’m hooked. The thing that I actually like the most about… Read more »
my new discount amd64 box
I just placed the order on newegg.com. Not a bad deal, methinks. For $250 I got a decent amd64 chip, a slightly older asus mobo, and a gig of ram…. Read more »
another game, another lost weekend
I spent most of last weekend playing one of my favorite computer games: Knights of the Old Republic II. Turning to the dark side is a hobby of mine. It’s… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »