I updated my desktop to the new Ubuntu release (Intrepid Ibix)
This is mostly good, but I discovered a problem as a side-effect of them improving their mouse support. Now that my mouse is auto-detected with all its buttons, the side-button no longer defaults to being a middle-click. I like having the side-button do [...]
1. sudo aptitude install mt-daapd
2. Edit /etc/mt-daapd.conf so that mp3_dir = [your music directory]. (Also any other configuration changes you might want to make; the file is well-commented.)
3. sudo /etc/init.d/mt-daapd restart
Really this would work on any Debian-derived distro… but I’ve only tried it on Ubuntu.
Update: It looks like mt-daapd puts an admin interface on [...]
Yesterday when leaving work I stepped out the back door of our building and almost blundered through someone filming a scene for something.
The back doors of our building had been made over into a hospital entrance, and someone who was the very embodiment of The Wise Old Bum was dispensing advice to people in scrubs, [...]
I’ve been running
Ubuntu on my home computer for a week and a half now. That’s right, I’ve
joined the “A-list blogger circle-jerk”. For certain values of “A”. Specifically, the value “F”.
I’ve mostly found alternatives for all the programs I used. The only area where I’m not quite satisfied is a [...]
Wordpress.com announced yesterday that all users get three gigabytes of upload space for free. This is a teensy upgrade from 50MB.
This seems to be primarily for psychological reasons, because there’s a big fat * after the upgrade.
The footnote is that Mr. Mullenweg mentions in this post that “[y]ou still need a space upgrade to [...]
AOL appears to be
considering rolling out jabber access to AIM.
That would be pretty awesome.
Last night I thought to myself “hey, I know, I’ll try out
Dungeon Runners!” It’s a pseudo-free pseudo-MMO, which could be described as a Diablo parody — that’s the sort of game that sounds appealing to me.
Sadly, I discovered that Dungeon Runners is not a game I can play.
You see, it requires that inbound [...]
It is possible that this blog’s naming scheme could be construed as being a bit egotistical. I just want to reclaim my name from popular culture!
But enough of that. Who am I?
I’m a 23 year old who immigrated to the USA from England when I was 17. I possess many useful insights into the [...]