With my Workstation non-functioning, I hooked up my laptop to my KVM.  Because I need a resonably fast pc (my mac mini doesn’t realy qualify as that) to work on (with matlab installed). Plugged the kvm in, started laptop… but X was still only on my laptop monitor. So I took the easy way, fired read more »

Yesterday my workstation worked fine. Today, it wouldn’t do a thing. Now I have to find a way to backup data from the disk (I have most of it, but just to be sure, but this is the only pc I had with sata ) and then return it to acer to fix it. Just read more »

Keep It Simple, Consistent.

This has been working for a while, but always caused some skipping at the start of the song… Today after fiddling with the config settings (reducing preload of songs and some other small things) I was able to remove the skip. The only thing left todo is making it run native under windows. Then we read more »

After Jat and me fiddled a bit, we finally managed to cross-compile a plugin for gmpc. So we can now release plugins for the win32 version of gmpc. Qball

The problem haunting me for months now, and the way to make your program run again is very very easy: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox && [program]

I used to have a Creative Soundblaster Live! 24bit external soundcard. It was terrible, beside being able to hear your body’s position by the noise, I could not use 1/2 the features of the device. Having this card attached (the sound itself (beside noise) was ok) to a good amplifier (nad) and kef speakers is read more »

Vandaag heb ik mijn 20 Hi-Efficientie leds (1cm diameter) ontvangen, en ze geven heel veel licht. 150.000 mcd,  om aan te geven hoeveel dit ongeveer is, een gewoon “rood” ledje is rond the 500 mcd, en de witje ledjes die in zaklampen worden gebruikt zijn vaak bij de goede ongeveer 15-18.000 mcd. Ik ga kijken read more »