this post was going to be titled “hello square one” because after getting the soundblaster live! card to work in linux for all of about 5 minutes, i rebooted to play some Guild Wars and when it came back, it didn’t work anymore. that has changed, however, since i am not even reaching square one.… Continue reading insert explitives, bitterness, and tremendous over-exaggeration
Category: geek of technology
boo-frakking-yah
after several desktop crashes, partial loads, reboots, frustration, an ingenious apt-get install that i didn’t expect to work and then finally finding the driver on sourceforge but not actually installing and going to the creative labs website looking for a linux driver that, of course, doesn’t exist, i somehow, mysteriously got my transplanted soundblaster live!… Continue reading boo-frakking-yah
amarok rocks my world. cedega, not so much.
i like amaroK. i think cedega is overrated. [more=there’s a lot more posted behind this link, but it’s kinda geeky, so be forewarned…there’s pretty screenshots tho.] the good: amaroK amaroK is a multimedia player (altho, thus far i’ve only used it for music). it works much the same way my ampache-powered page does. you create… Continue reading amarok rocks my world. cedega, not so much.
g33king ahead
so i’ve had the jazzsequence rss feed in my live bookmarks folder in firefox on my work laptop for a long time, and for most of that time, it hasn’t worked (you can sort of read about it here). it’s sort of stayed there as a reminder that something needed to be fixed. well, i… Continue reading g33king ahead
interesting spam
X-Gmail-Received: 84ca3ba67c87951677830eb6e82330702704a873Delivered-To: [email protected]: by 10.36.119.18 with SMTP id r18cs16781nzc; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:46:22 -0700 (PDT)Received: by 10.36.24.20 with SMTP id 20mr2670266nzx; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:46:22 -0700 (PDT)Return-Path: Received: from p54A24438.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (p54A24438.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.162.68.56]) by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id 15si18326570nzp.2006.07.07.09.46.22; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:46:22 -0700 (PDT)Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 84.162.68.56 is neither permitted nor denied… Continue reading interesting spam
fantastically brilliant business idea #29
so i had another business idea epiphany last night. many of my amazingly good business ideas have to do with running a music store and how i would do it. i guess it’s sort of a dream i have to be able to share music i like with people and make money off it. if… Continue reading fantastically brilliant business idea #29
ampache — reason number 512 why php rocks my world
i found a web-based server application by accident when i googled to try to figure out if it was possible to broadcast on LAUNCHcast, which is the SHOUTcast-like protocol that Yahoo uses. i don’t think it is, but in the search results i found a blog in which ampache was mentioned as being the next… Continue reading ampache — reason number 512 why php rocks my world