http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog WTF Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:47:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ubuntu's default music player for Gnome is Rhythmbox, in case you weren't aware. It's a decent enough player, though I'm told it fails at large collections, but I'm not here to plug it or rag on it. One of its niftier features is software mixing. In other words, it can adjust ... http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/02/01/stfu-rhythmbox/ I finally decided to hack my mail filter to display a brief summary of incoming non-spam email via OSD, but something had to be done about the vomit/birdshit color scheme that gnome-osd-server was using by default. Since its configuration GUI, gnome-osd-properties, doesn't have anywhere you can change the colors, I realized ... http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/31/hacking-gnomes-osd-colors-under-ubuntu/ Screw it, here you go, the magic that makes the cam page work. http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/30/t-mobile-camera-phone-image-processor/ My mail filter announces incoming mail as it comes in -- for spam, it just plays a short wav, one of the sound effects from SOCOM: US Navy Seals. For ham, though, it feeds a brief summary through the speech synthesizer: the sender address, and the subject line (or "No ... http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/30/fun-with-sockets/ So, after a conversation on EFNet's #iPhone: 13:47 < etnom_bar> But i think i will go to the sister bar. 13:47 < @cuervo> heh 13:47 < @cuervo> warbarring. 13:48 < @cuervo> warbarhopping? someone help me out here. 13:48 < @khuong> haa 13:48 < @khuong> sounds like manbearpig butchering. 13:48 < etnom_bar> Omallys and omallys 2 13:48 ... http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/17/warbarhopping/ After Wordpress bitching at me for a while, I've finally upgraded to 2.7. I dig the new interface, and the upgrade went pretty smooth. I've also decided to finally make the email processor that makes the cam page work (i.e., extracts images from the emails my phone sends) public -- soon. ... http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/14/new-year-new-wordpress-new-code/ You know what? I'm halfway through this movie, and it's actually pretty good. I mean, reminds me of Toy Story, but with robots, set in the future, and... somehow better. Also, Wall-E somewhat resembles Johnny 5 and reminds me of me, if I weren't a psychopath. And if anyone knows where ... http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/08/wall-e/ You are not what I need, when I need it, and you are getting really irritating. Why am I reminded of SiteFinder? (Yes, realize it's not the same thing. It's still @#%$* annoying.) http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2009/01/03/you-know-what-pisses-me-off/ Nope. Not dead. Keep wishing. http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2008/12/21/blah/ For some reason, there's a working Windows XP key just sitting on Digg. And people say it's still good, even after two years. That's... awesome. http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2008/12/01/windows-xp-key-on-digg/