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And now it is back. Yay.
Aack. The router is fracked again. I should just add an audio up/down status in the sidebar…
And once again the audio archives for the Millionaire’s Holiday are back on line. Hopefully there will be fewer power-surge-related disk melting incidents from here on out.
Byte Converter is nice for us lazy folks who cannot be arsed to do these conversions (or close approximations) in our heads. I’ve used this twice now in the past 18 hours so it probably warrants some link-love.
ZOMG. It’s amazing how much happier I am when the nightly builds go off without a hitch.
In an unfortunate power-surge incident, the machine hosting the audio files had its OS borked. The audio files themselves are kosher, fortunately, but the drive hosting the OS now has more bad sectors than Detroit. Bad enough to turn a 40GB drive into a measly 8.5GB of storage. Definitely time to get a new HD. Until then, the music shop is closed…
JMEP is exactly what I’ve been beating my head over for the past few weeks. Seriously way better than what I was writing and, from the testing I’ve done, way more robust. If you’ve been looking for an open-source java parser for mathematical expressions, your search is over.
Never was interested in building a parser, I’m way more interested in building a cross-platform GUI fantasy baseball draft manager. Using JMEP cut my own codebase by several dozen classes and simplified the whole stats interface aspect significantly.
Radio DavidByrne.com. In the event there is one person out there still who has not yet heard of this. Fantastic collection of music streamed with decent compression. If I had the time I’d do a massive stream capture and cut tracks all day long.
Brought on by seeing this. A new collaboration between Eno and Byrne? Likely nice.
Finally fixed the linkies for the Millionaire’s Holiday.
Simple Home File Server Based On Ubuntu | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials is a nice little howto article that netted me a file server to use for daily backups. Elz’s hard drive melting down last weekend finally got my ass in gear to put this together. Of course, not before she lost all of her email and address book. I was able to save the photos and music collection though. Hooray for partitions!
At any rate, if’n you’re looking for a quick and dirty network file server, you could do a lot worse than this. OTOH, if’n you’re looking for a micro-powered, highly tailored file server, you can probably do a lot better. All I know is that I now have all of our machines dumping nightly backups to a file server, and have the foundation for a home media center once I get myself together for that project.
From the “Everyone loves this but you never seemed to get off your ass to try it yourself” files I bring you Growl. In and of itself it’s pretty innocuous—just an operating system alert widget. However, when you plug in all sorts of applications it keeps you from ⌘-Tabbing or space jumping all over the place to get alerts of incoming stuff. Alerts just pop up wherever you happen to be when “things happen.” Currently I’m monitoring:
In the past half hour I think I’ve increased my productivity twofold just because I’m not jumping to different spaces every time I get email.
Related, I’ve installed CC Menu to monitor all the freaking builds going on at work. This frees up a bit of space in my cramped RDC connection to my worktop as the monitor now runs in my menu bar and I can open the project window and move it off to the side on the secondary monitor. Sure, it might be easier to just work directly on the worktop but I’m just that committed to using my powerbook. Who says mac fans aren’t zealous?