Monthly Archives: March 2011

GMPC – SoundMenu integration

I had an hour yesterday and another one today on the train and I wrote a small plugins to make gmpc integrate in the ubuntu SoundMenu. There is a small bug in SoundMenu not showing the complete name, I reported today and is fixed upstream (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/744142). You can get a trail version here:  http://download.sarine.nl/gmpc-appindicator-0.0.95.tar.gz. I read more »

Linux gone commercial?

A friend of mine got this error today:

The wonderfull world called Microsoft Office (2007)

This morning I lost one and half hours of work because powerpoint decided to hang on me. (not crash).  Then when I finally decide to kill it and start it again it decided it was a good choice to corrupt my presentation and not offering me any recovering option.  So I had to get the read more »

Music.

(near) Perfection happens rarely, but when it does it can be beyond belief. Yes I am talking about music. This song: In a sentimental mood – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (youtube) .  Normally I hate when people ‘cover’ it. But, I must admit, this one is pretty good (given who did it, it was read more »