Ok, what do the Pope, Magere Hein, PWM and K8055 have in common? It are the things I should not have been doing today. Pope vs. Magere Hein. I gave my desktop a small update. I must be one off the rare people that has a pope on his background. screenshot PWM & K8055 I read more
Monthly Archives: October 2010
PandaBoard: Fancy new hardware
October 25, 2010 – 7:46 pm
A week ago the PandaBoard/ was announced and I WANT ONE. (but no money..) But one thing has been bugging the hell out of me every since I read the page, that is the following info: Low power audio (upto 140+ hr CD-quality audio playback) Owh cool 140+ Hourse of CD-quality audio playback.. eeuh wait read more
GMPC Manual
October 23, 2010 – 9:25 pm
I put some effort (again) in getting some sort off GMPC Manual off the ground, the first small steps can be found: http://gmpclient.org/Manual/Manual.html I hope that someday I can find a good alternative for wikia, the new theme is even worse then the previous one. (How they managed that amazes me).
Real music and gmpc update
October 21, 2010 – 10:31 pm
I probably posted this one before, but I just saw it again. This is what music on stage must be like. You might not like the music, you might prefer moore, but there is chemistry on stage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gDeGdQ3rM Owh and gmpc users might want to checkout this small movie here. It is in git now. read more
All hail the great banshee
October 17, 2010 – 4:20 pm
I from time to time use banshee to put music on my ipod. It is not perfect, it is slow and uses a lot of memory, but worked. So when going on a ride today, I wanted some fresh music for driving on the long straight road.. So I fired up banshee, this used to read more
GMPC, re-instroducing a golden oldy
October 16, 2010 – 3:56 pm
After having a discussion a while back with Greg, I decided to try to re-implement a golden oldy. Namely the ‘breadcrumb’ bar and artist search in the metdata browser. The current metadata browser forces you to use the 3 panes on the left to browse through your collection, this is not always the best/easiest way. read more
Updated my netbook
October 14, 2010 – 10:10 pm
Took some effort to get everything installed the way I want, but it is operational again: I also my ConfigFile script again. What this does link config files from I keep in a directory (that is a git repository) to the right location. It will created the needed directories and link the files into the read more
Improving drawing performance
October 6, 2010 – 1:08 pm
Drawing a nice scrolling text on my squeezebox touch caused a 19% cpu usage. This is very doable, but I wondered how to improve this. So perf to the rescue. Trying to see what was actually hitting the cpu. Turned out that a lot of time was spend in the drawing routines. (the whole screen read more
Getting MPD to run smooth(er) on squishybox
October 3, 2010 – 9:43 pm
I have spend some time today trying to get MPD to run smoother on the squeezebox touch. I had two issues, I solved one! A pop is audible when skipping songs. I made a recording here. (open it in audacity and put the wave-form in DB to clearly see it). Alsa underruns. I managed to read more
Looking for a cheap bar-code/label printer
October 1, 2010 – 6:52 pm
I am looking for a small cheap! label/barcode printer. I got a better webcam for my barcode scanner plugin for stuffkeeper. (see this post). Any advice? or maybe has something lying around? thx Q