A small while back I bought a new laptop, one with a AMD II Neo K345 processor with HD4225 (I think). On the internet I read that the battery life was decent but not good. Like 4 hours tops on the stock (56Wh) battery. So I got it with the 90Wh battery hoping to get read more
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Cheating the poll
February 9, 2011 – 10:28 pm
It seems somebody is trying hard to have the treeview tooltip stay in GMPC. The current score is: 10 versus 9. However when looking at the votes, it seems the actual score is 10 vs 4. Somebody has been removing cookies to vote several times. I am kinda disappointed that the poll plugin for wordpress read more
Gnome, scare tactics
February 9, 2011 – 12:20 am
This morning in the train, I saw my battery indicator in the panel turn dark red. Owh battery is almost empty, slightly confused and dropping my work, I moved to gnomes power manager and check the remaining battery time. This told me that I had 2 hours and 35 minutes left. So if I have read more
GMPC advanced settings
February 6, 2011 – 10:10 pm
I recently, on request, added an advanced settings. This allows you to disable some extra parts of GMPC. You can disable: The disable album cover in the player part. Hide the favorite icon. Disable database, play-queue, search browser, tag based browser, playlist editor, metadata browser and now playing screen. You can find it under preferences->interface: read more
GMPC+MPD+SSH: Listen to your music from home at work
February 6, 2011 – 9:29 pm
What do you need to get a nice, easy way, to play listen to your music you have at home on your work. First we need: MPD running at home. GMPC running at your work. GMPC-shout plugin. mplayer or mpg123 to play back MPD’s stream Be able to setup an SSH connection to your home read more
GMPC Poll 2: Is the treeview tooltip used, and should we keep it.
February 6, 2011 – 8:29 pm
On my blog a nice poll will show, allowing you to vote for keeping the treeview tooltip. What is the treeview tooltip? it shows information about the song you are hoovering with your mouse pointer. I personally turn it off, because it can be annoying. But it is you call ™ Do you want to read more
Poll results
February 4, 2011 – 9:05 pm
Given the poll result, I removed the rating from GMPC today. I will put up a new poll later. 18 people did not want it. 3 where positive and 2 would even make a donation (but didn’t). So it is out.