Excursion in Distraction
30 Oct '072 min read

BuildBot for XMMS2

After having talked about setting up a BuildBot service for XMMS2 for 6-7 months I finally got my shit together a couple a days ago and did it.For now we have three slaves running, Debian Etch, mingw32 and Freebsd 7. The latter two have already helped us…

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22 Oct '074 min read

Unfinished GUI crap

In the world of XMMS2 there are a heap of clients that more or less rip the design from something that already exists. Some clients have potential, while a lot of clients are just “Hey, I has writes my 0wnz0r music player!! zomgbbqzuhl!!11!”. Though this kind…

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04 Jul '074 min read

Looking for a sci-fi fix?

Just wanted to share my scrollback of books I’ve recently read, now when all good tv series are on break.Salman Ruchdie - Satanic VersesNot sure if I liked this one or not, it was a bit too long for my taste, considering the intensity of the plot. Maybe it…

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24 May '071 min read

Microsoft Windows must die

Today was the last day I booted Windows on my laptop after work. And this is the story:Open up the X-Box.Solder the sweet spots to remove the firmware write protection.Start Mechassault.Load save game and wait for Linux to boot.Launch .Start . and .Fire up…

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28 Apr '074 min read

Parachuting!

So, I’ve finally tried my wings, or at least the carrying capacity of the parachute.The training I took part of was a couple of sessions of theory, some jumping off a ladder, muscle memory of pulling the secondary parachute if the first one failed, folding a…

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