Monthly Archives: February 2009

Roll Up The Rim 2009

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Arthur

Oh yeah: I happened to walk downtown and found a couple of Roll Up The Rim cups laying around, which effectively means that that specific time of the year has arrived. So, yeah, the contest rules are right above (or … Continue reading →

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Some KDE

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Arthur

I run a mix of Gnome and KDE on one of my computers: for a couple of Mono related things, I ended up frequently running the Gnome desktop. Just today, I decided to follow-up on the notifications telling me that … Continue reading →

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The reds, whites and blues

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Arthur

I slightly follow US politics now: even after a historic change of presidency, my general impression is that it’s just politics as usual and that is not really of interest. The other day, I noticed that Fox News is spearheading … Continue reading →

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Ice, Ice, Maybe

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Arthur

Everytime a Wix script (Windows Installer XML) fails to compile, it logs ICE errors. For some kind of reason, whenever these errors or warnings pop up, I keep humming the tune of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” (Youtube, if you’re … Continue reading →

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Sardines, cans, computers

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, I was watching Planet Earth (BBC’s award winning documentary) and I noticed one of the documentary’s crew member trying to though out a can of sardines (see photo). We used to eat that stuff too, … Continue reading →

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Debian 5 (“Lenny”)

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Arthur

Via Slashdot, I found out that Debian “Lenny” (or 5.0, so you will) has been released. On February 14th. I can feel the Debian love at Slashdot. Seriously, this looks like a major release (or setback if you’re in the … Continue reading →

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Against The 70’s

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Arthur

The only reason to get Mike Watt’s very first solo album, “Ball-Hog or Tugboat” was because his name had popped up on Sonic Youth’s ‘Whitey Album’ (and others). If I remember correctly, I wasn’t overly impressed with Watt’s album: It … Continue reading →

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FFMPeg III

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Arthur

Note to self: the source version of ffmpeg comes with h264 presets. Earlier, I mentioned where to get the ffmpeg binary from (note, as far as I can see, the last build was done in 2008), so there may (indeed) … Continue reading →

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Links go here

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Arthur

I was playing with Mono last night, only after I found out that it supports static compilation which makes Mono a lot more compelling for going cross-platform. Much to my surprise, I found out that some of my (personal) applications … Continue reading →

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