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Break Things, Please!

I posted this in my status on Facebook, but crossposting yields wider audiences. Amber conscripted me to build a simple submission and voting script for an upcoming Doctor Who fanvideo contest. I think I’m mostly done with it, which means that there’s a ton of bugs to be fixed, naturally. I’ve already [...]

Habe ich mehr programmierte!

Re: I can’t sleep while my roommate stores

This is why I love Linux/Opensource

Jeremy was playing around on ShinyCat trying to get Compiz installed for some nifty orange glows around his windows. Well, ShinyCat has crappy integrated ATI drivers and we couldn’t get any of the drivers properly installed so Compiz kept giving stupid errors. He was kind of bothered that we couldn’t get this to [...]

There is a sticky note on the TV

Do not
turn off
Wii under
penalty of
DEATH!

Phil and I got to the third stage of Wily’s castle last night, but if you save the game and turn it off you start right back at the first stage of the castle, so we had to leave it on over night. I got bored part way through the [...]

Project

So I think that my next real.. project of sorts will be to write an MPD client. MPD is a pretty neat music manager I found a few days ago. A fair amount of Linux programs and services run on the client/server idea, most notably X the graphical display server (what draws the [...]