Archive for April, 2008

Microdia (0c45:624f) webcam on Linux

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

(Re: Proprietary Webcam driver wonders).
I recently discovered a free driver for my GF’s builtin Microdia webcam. It works very nicely (better than the crappy proprietary one did when I tested the “trial”). So if you’ve got a Microdia webcam, at least the 0c45:624f one, now you can have it working properly, with good quality without [...]

Automated Day Planner development snapshots

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I’ve added automatic development snapshots of Day Planner to the Day Planner homepage. There are currently three different branches (trunk, next stable, current stable) being built, in two flavours (tarball and installer). The snapshots are updated twice each day and are available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/snapshot. Feel free to take them for a spin.

MP3Tunes and EMI

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

An e-mail dumped into my inbox today, from the CEO of the MP3Tunes service, that I use for backing up my music collection. It stated that EMI claimed that this use was illegal and had sued MP3Tunes (this happened a while ago, I know). This isn’t even a case of so-called “piracy” that you claim [...]

Day Planner’s second anniversary (and a development snapshot)

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Today is the second anniversary of the Day Planner project. So hurray for Day Planner, and here’s to all the great releases to come.
In other related news, I’ve just released a development snapshot of Day Planner 0.9.
It is available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/devsnapshot. It contains all of the developed features for 0.9 (including the unfinished maemo port), [...]

History meme

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Everyone else is doing it!
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
279 cd
185 vim
117 ssh
75 screen
74 svn
66 wget
64 ls
60 perldoc
59 rm
58 cget

Best gift certificates ever

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Today (6th of April) is my birthday, and my GF, being rather artistic, decided to go a different route when it came to the gift certificates she gave me.
This one is for TuxGames (well, this was /really/ from the cat (Junior) and the hamster (Tuxine)):

This one was for Aetolian credits (Aetolia being a MUD):

And the [...]