Archive For March 3rd, 2003
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 [...]
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 [...]
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..
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.
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
