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Monthly Archives: November 2007
And there was light
November 29, 2007 – 10:58 am
Today I could pick up my fixed laptop. It seems that the video card chip got loose from the motherboard. I got a new motherboard now, and part of the casing is replaced. But what’s funny, I removed on my previous laptop I removed the “intel inside” and the “designed for winxp” stickers. On the read more
One bug a week, 2
November 28, 2007 – 10:23 pm
Today I commited 2 “fixes” to mpd. 1. Stops mpd from hanging if you try to stop it when buffering a seekable stream. (for some reason ogg tries to skip through a large part of the file when opening it, when it has random access. and this caused problems when during this opening the stream read more
One bug a week
November 27, 2007 – 9:46 pm
Since mpd is currently low on developers, I decided to (try) to fix one bug in mpd a week. I hope I can keep it up. Last week I fixed the parsing of id3tags, there was an error that caused comment tags not to be parsed. #1615 This week I fixed replaygain for libflac version read more
And everything went black..
November 27, 2007 – 6:21 pm
Yesterday evening, when just doing a quick check, my laptop screen went black.. and came back, and went black again. I’ve been using the laptop all day and no problems, but it seems the connection between motherboard and display somehow to loose getting home. moving the laptop would turn the screen on/off/garbled. So I brought read more
Fedora 8, installation and dependency madness
November 13, 2007 – 8:55 pm
First I had terrible time installing it (cdrom not being detected, because of some weird error) Then after installing it via a the net, the gui got stuck. Then after installing it from the text-base installer it worked, but with a complete mad Xorg.conf. (dualhead completely screwed up) After some old style XF86 eeeuh org.conf read more
New gmpc test machine
November 12, 2007 – 9:52 pm
I used to have an old imac for this, but it died. But I got my hand on some new “old” hardware, namely a macintosh powerbook G3 (lombard). cpu: 740/750 clock: 400Mhz Cache: 1mb memory: 190mb Hardisk: 8gb Optical: 24x cdrom – dvd reader Screen: 14.1 inch 1024×768 Os: linux 2.6 Debian lenny One thing read more
MdCover2, what does it do?
November 5, 2007 – 8:02 pm
Some of you might have noticed I have added a mdcover2 plugin on my repository. Well mdcover2 is what I original intended for mdcover: I have my music organized following a very strict of rules. It looks like this: Metadata is inserted in this structure as well. The rules define that the tag contents and read more
Deskbar constant cpu usage
November 5, 2007 – 4:32 pm
I have no idea why, but for some reason, deskbar seems to use around 6-12% of cpu constantly, even when not “used”. (core 2 duo 2Ghz.) I hate it when programs do that.