Archive For March 3rd, 2003

mp3burn

mp3burn is a simple command line tool for making audio CDs from mp3s without filling up your disk with .wav files. It requires perl, mpg123, and cdrecord. update! Why not use a self made script? (see comments) Because I keep forgetting the parameters to pass to cdrecord, and it’s easier to have someone else maintain [...]

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Anger at move to restrict FoI Act

Here’s why the techies on ILUG didn’t get excited about the Government’s plan to restrict the Freedom of Information act: It came just a week after the data retention fiasco. There’s only so much ranting and raving one can do, even the ILUG! People are bored of politics. The FOI Act deals with data that [...]

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KiteIreland – Come Fly a Kite in Ireland – Homepage

Who wants to be in the office today? I’d rather be flying a kite! Wish I had the money for some of the kites on mobilekiteshop..

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RTÉ News: Man gets life sentence for Limerick murder

RTÉ News report on Grainne’s murder trial. There’s more on 96fm. Sentencing Nascimento, Mr Justice Barry White said there was no need for Grainne to die.

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System Administration Made Difficult

This site is a great source of useful information, despite what the title says!

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Kontact KDE PIM

Looks like KDE gets an Outlook clone in the form of Kontact. Well, in fact it integrates the existing KDE applications Kmail, Korganiser, Kaddressbook, Knotes. Looks good, I’m downloading it!

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MUD Players – us raid on iraq

What if mudders planned a war on Iraq? US: Ok, putting together RvR group for Iraq raid… who’s in? Turkey: Only if someone makes me new armor. Last Iraq raid I lost money on US: *sigh* Ok, can’t build you the new armor, but I’ll help pay for it. How much you need. Turkey: 6 [...]

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Patent Application Processing Flowchart

UserFriendly has a flowchart showing how a patent application goes through. Scary! *grin*

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Cork LUG – b2 and Smarty mod

I finally released the source of this blog. There are always so many small things to do when source code is released. Actually creating the application is simple. Afterwards, you have to write documentation, create a web page or update one, create and upload a tarball, the list goes on. If there’s bugs, so be [...]

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