+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Microsoft stock versus Apple stock.

+ 5 - 2 | § ¶Adding streaming audio to MPD

http://glennji.com/content/streaming-audio-with-mpd-and-icecast

Haven't tried this yet.

+ 1 - 6 | § ¶Installing Relaxx on Ubuntu 9.10 using lighttpd

install lighttpd
install php5-cgi

unpack relaxx

Follow:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/lighttpd-webserver-setup-with-php5-and-mysql-support.html

Also this stuff

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Lighttpd-on-Fedora-and-Ubuntu-44557.shtml

+ 6 - 3 | § ¶Fixing festival can't open /dev/dsp error

This should work in more than Ubuntu; but I use Ubuntu:

 printf ";use ALSA\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command \"aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r \$SR \$FILE\")\n" > .festivalrc

 From the Ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=171182&page=2

+ 7 - 8 | § ¶Starting gps bluetooth client on Ubuntu Hardy

First, get the device paired:

hcitool scan

Then use the MAC address to pair it:

rfcomm connect 0 00:02:00:F1:1A:70

Then start gpsd:

gpsd -N /dev/rfcomm0

Then view the results with xgps.

+ 5 - 6 | § ¶"My 5km run" - or: "How I almost died."

So I've been wanting to get back into running.  Instead of being all talk; I actually got up at 6 am. I already plotted my course:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1945556

+ 5 - 9 | § ¶Will PCIe 1.1 cards work in PCIe 2.0 slots

Someone asked me if PCIe 1.x cards would work in a PCIe 2.0 board. Here's what I found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

This says:

That wiki entry has lots of neat stuff; worth a quick peruse.

So the short answer is yes; I think this is fine. You just don't get the advantage of the 2.0 spec if you put a 1.x speced card in a 2.0 slot. They did the same thing with AGP when you had 8x cards in 4x boards.

That's not to say that you won't get goofball cards that don't work in a select few motherboards; that usually turns out to be the case but that sort of thing seems to be improving as well in recent years. I'd trust it enough to try it.

+ 3 - 8 | § ¶VMWare and Welch's Juice

Great quote. Hey; if Welch can trust themso can I.

"I have so much faith in the VMware technology that we are rolling it out to our five production plants. In fact, our secret juice recipe database runs in a virtual machine and has been running there for four years."

—George Scangas, Sr. IT Infrastructure Analyst, Welch’s, Welch'

 

+ 10 - 3 | § ¶Thank you again spammers...

...... for posting pointless entries in my photo gallery.  No; I am not going to buy your sex toys.  Thank you for posting your ad 800 times on a picture of a frog.  Stupid turds.

+ 5 - 7 | § ¶3d Desktop on linux

Just a couple of cool examples of the new Compiz Fusion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fTh0x3xLE&mode=related&search= 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I&mode=related&search=

+ 6 - 6 | § ¶My life's a living joke

and here's the proof:

Life in 8 Steps

+ 7 - 5 | § ¶New puppy.

We now have a new puppy.  She's pretty hideous as you can see in this picture.