alex chiang: web 6.0

 

Month: March, 2007

pointer to RuFF iTunes

I spent an hour or so writing RuFF-iTunes over the weekend.
It’s a bunch of AppleScript and Ruby that will help you import information from freedb.org, and fix the id3 information for your music. It only works on complete albums, requires Firefox, and only works on Macs.
If you are as nerdy as I am, maybe you’ll [...]

mythtv, edgy, asus pundit-r

Last time, I wrote about a workaround for funky mplayer output with Ubuntu Edgy on an Asus Pundit-R box. That workaround made mplayer work, but didn’t fix the fact that mythtv kept on crashing with a floating point exception on startup.
Looks like the problem is some weirdo interaction with the fglrx driver and qt.
The workaround [...]

doom weapon to prevent doomsday

The CSM had an article a few days ago about using nuclear energy to prevent global warming. The article is focused on Europe, and it turns out that most people still are resistant to the idea of using nukes.
The first relevant quote is:

A survey of 1,000 people in each of the 27 EU member countries [...]