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Links for 2008-05-21 [del.icio.us]

2008-05-22T05:00:00+00:00

doctype - Google Code
Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.

Links for 2008-05-17 [del.icio.us]

2008-05-18T05:00:00+00:00

RCP tones | Normal, Unique, Non-music Ringtones | Free Thru Creative Commons

I’m confused.

2008-04-30T15:00:12+00:00

Could someone please tell me why, around 5pm every day for the last couple of weeks, my wireless laser mouse stops working when it’s on the mousemat, but if I take the mousemat away, and use the mouse directly on the desk, it works fine…

I could understand if it just decided it didn’t want to work on the mousemat, or didn’t want to work at certain times, but specifically at a time, and specificaly on the mousemat. It’s confusing, and REALLY annoying.

Links for 2008-04-27 [del.icio.us]

2008-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Secure Git hosting and collaborative development — GitHub
GitHub is a new hosted Git repository service that's being called a "social network" for programmers.

Links for 2008-04-23 [del.icio.us]

2008-04-24T05:00:00+00:00

Fling Media: Making Google Reader for Fluid
Okay here is the setup: Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader.

Setting up networking on an ubuntu server

2008-04-14T19:44:38+00:00

Ok, by popular demand (aka ompaul) I’ve decided to do a mini-howto on setting up networking on an ubuntu server, for those who are new to it.

In Ubuntu itself, when you install the desktop version, you get a nifty little tool called “Network Manager” (you may have noticed the icon, espescially if you have wireless) which pretty much does everything for you. However, if you’re using the server, without a GUI then this isn’t generaly available.

So, where to start?

It really depends on your network setup, you need to know a few things about your network before you start this.

The first and most important question you need to find out is whether there is a DHCP server on your network that will assign you an IP address. If so, your networking setup is very very simple, so I’ll start off with that.

Networking with an available DHCP server

When you have a DHCP server available on your network, things are made a lot simpler. Cut short, a DHCP server sits on your network and hands out configurations to the different computers that ask for them. I won’t go into detail, but, generally you’ll find these on small home networks (your router will generally work as a DHCP server, which is why you (usually) magically find your way onto the internet when you plug yourself into a network with a router on it)

First of all, find out whether you actually already have an internet connection. I’ll assume for now that you have a keyboard and monitor hooked up to the computer you’re setting up as a server, and have logged in as a user with sudo rights.

Type in the command “ifconfig” (without the quotes) and you should hopefully see something like this:-

mez@stupor:~$ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:3E:7F:AC:B2
inet addr:212.13.30.94  Bcast:212.13.30.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:3576458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1886783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
RX bytes:836607596 (797.8 MB)  TX bytes:291514569 (278.0 MB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
RX packets:73611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:73611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15252378 (14.5 MB)  TX bytes:15252378 (14.5 MB)

The important bit we see here is the block of text starting with “eth0″ and espescially the line

inet addr:212.13.30.94  Bcast:212.13.30.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

This generally means that the computer already has an IP address! yay!

Next, try the command

ping google.com

Hopefully, you’ll get back a response saying something along the lines of

PING google.com (64.233.187.99) 56(84) bytes of data
64 bytes from jc-in-f99.google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=100 ms

If so, you have a working internet connection! Go you! you can now start using your computer on the internet (though the IP address given above might only be accessible from an internal network, depending on your setup - going into howto get this IP available on the internet proper is beyond the scope of this blog post)

If not, you’ll get one of two errors, either a “no route to host” or a “cannot resolve google.com”.

The first issue is a complex one, which again, is beyond the scope of this article (though feel free to email me to ask questions - or catch me on IRC - I will *try* to answer them)

The second one generally means that you do not have a nameserver setup.

Open DNS is a project that provides Accessible DNS resolvers for the whole world to use. More information can be found out about OpenDNS here

For now however, lets open up your DNS resolver settings

sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

This file should be edited to contain the following lines only

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

Hit Ctrl + O then enter, then Ctrl + X to get back to your command prompt.

Try pinging google again, and hopefully it should work. If not, something went wrong somewhere, again, try emailing me or poking me on IRC.

So, what if you don’t have an IP address?

Well, assuming that you DO have a DHCP server running on your network, lets first of all check that we have a working interface on our system

ifconfig -a

You should hopefully see a couple of lines here, one starting with “lo” and another starting with “eth0″ (or similar) - remember this name

Now, open up your /etc/network/interfaces file (sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces) and make sure it contains the following

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Assuming that it does, we should be able to do the following

sudo ifup eth0

Which will (hopefully) bring the interface up. Go back a step if you cannot resolve google.com when trying to ping it. You might have to setup a resolver (though your DHCP server should provide these details for you!)

Voila! hopefully you now have a working network interface

Networking without an available DHCP server

Now, here is where things get more interesting. To be able to setup a network without having a DHCP server readily available, you need to know the following

The IP address that will be assigned to your host
The netmask for the IP addresses being used
The default gateway’s IP address (usually the IP address of your router)

It may differ how you get this information, however, I cannot tell you how to do so, I’d ask your network administrator if I were you (or your hosting provider)

So, I’m assuming here that you have the above details, are logged in at your machine and ready to go

I’ll only be brief about this setup, as a lot of the details are covered above.

First of all, make sure that your interface is down

sudo ifdown eth0

next, edit your /etc/network interfaces, replacing the information between < and > with
the information from above

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
	address <IP Address>
	netmask <Network Mask>
	gateway <Default Gateway>

So, you should have something like this

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
	address 212.13.30.94
	netmask 255.255.252.0
	gateway 212.13.30.1

Now head back to your console, and try

sudo ifup eth0

To bring your interface up. Hopefully, now, everything should be working (if not, go have a look at the DNS stuff above)

If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment here, or email me (martin AT sourceguru DOT net) and I will try and answer, though I make no guarantees!

Thus concludes Mez’s basic guide to server networking on ubuntu - I’ll try and add some more interesting stuff in a later blog post (IPv6, IP Aliases, etc etc)

Notes to self

2008-04-11T20:01:07+00:00

postfix reload does not change the listening interface settings for postfix
postfix really should listen on 127.0.0.1 if you are running mailman
when things go wrong, it’s usually your own fault

Links for 2008-04-09 [del.icio.us]

2008-04-10T05:00:00+00:00

When is Good
Cool web app that helps schedule a meeting with several participants by avoiding the endless "Is this time okay with everyone?" emails.
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
An app that helps bridge the gap between desktop applications and web applications. Essentially makes web applications feel more like desktop apps.

Buzzword Bingo

2008-04-07T22:01:25+00:00

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2008-April/000425.html

I’m ashamed of myself, I really am

A rose by any other name…

2008-04-06T00:30:34+00:00

In contrast to Martin F. Krafft and Daniel Silverstone, I personally, prefer to be called by my online nickname.

The reasoning behind this is simple. The name I (now) use for myself online actually comes from what most people in real life call me. The name “Mez” is a contraction of my surname “Meredith” (apparently) and is the name I go by as online, as well as in real life. Daniel also says that he finds it hard for his name to recognise “Kinnison” as someone trying to get his attention. I’m the opposite. I actually find it harder for my brain to recognise “Martin” as someone trying to get my attention, unless I’m in a situation where I’m expecting people to be calling me by that (usually with family, as they are the only people to call me by that name). I’m sure if you ever speak to my work colleagues, they’ll be able to confirm that my selective hearing only ever really picks up “Mez”

I however, unlike some people I know, have no problem with people calling me by my “Real” Name (though a definition of what is real is vague, and although I can’t find a citation, I’m pretty sure that UK law defines the name of someone as that of which they are called by and respond to (given name))

But it’s all good. If you want to get my attention though, I’d try shouting “Mez” at me. (and not “Meez or Mess, cause that DOES annoy me

Links for 2008-04-03 [del.icio.us]

2008-04-04T05:00:00+00:00

Community Plumbing: Why RDF fits for Drupal | Drupal Association
Great post on RDF and Drupal. People are finally starting to see the power of RDF after years of mistrust of yet another new technology that seemed only academic in nature.

Links for 2008-03-28 [del.icio.us]

2008-03-29T05:00:00+00:00

Newsvine - MacBook Casing Defect: Prevalent Cracking
This happened to mine too. :(
Trends | SimplyHired
Pretty cool web app that lets you compare job trends.

Question

2008-03-27T12:52:58+00:00

In your opinion, should putting incoming mail in the right folders on an IMAP server dependent on say, the mailing list it corresponds to, be the job of the MDA or the MUA? (The “server” or the “client”)

shakes head

2008-03-13T17:41:21+00:00

There are some strange people on the internet, and most of the time, they can be annoying, but after this

* bod_ has joined #ubuntu-ops
<+Pici> bod_: How can we help you this morning?
<bod_> afternoon here ;~) im fine, just seeing how many ops have a ‘p’ in their name
<bod_> 9
<+Pici> bod_: /msg chanserv access #ubuntu list will give you a list of all #ubuntu ops
<bod_> omg, theres a command for everything,. can i grep for ‘p’ aswell?
<+nalioth> bod_: if there’s nothing we can help you with, /topic
* bod_ runs away
* bod_ has left #ubuntu-ops (”Leaving”)

I couldn’t help but chuckle for a good 10 minutes or so

PHPLondon Conference 08

2008-03-05T17:45:00+00:00

I managed to dodge most of the photos, however, one person managed to get a non-blurry shot of me.

Was a good conference, I’ll write more about it later…

Support

2008-03-04T12:46:01+00:00

I had a problem with the control panel of my hosting account, nothing life threatening one of the features, Fantastico Deluxe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastico_%28web_hosting%29), was...

Blogs, feeds and Joomla

2008-03-01T18:07:40+00:00

I've been messing with the website again after moving one or two modules around and removing odd bits I decided...

UK Linux User Groups

2008-02-25T09:14:08+00:00

The UK Linux User Groups organisation has a new website! Its a billion times better than the original one they had...

LugRadio Live 2008

2008-02-07T08:08:19+00:00

LugRadio Live 2008 UK (http://www.lugradio.org/live/UK2008/) will be happening on the 19th and 20th July Wolverhampton University Student Union, Wolverhampton,...

Cheeky gits…

2008-02-06T14:53:46+00:00

Online food shopping - oh the joy.

When you shop for food online, generally, something will be out of stock, so you’ll get it substituted for a similar item. This I can accept.

However, my monthly shopping came last night, and there was one replacement.

This would have been fine, it was a pasta sauce that they simply substituted for another flavour. However, for some reason, they substituted 2 x Flavour I asked for for 3 x Other Flavour.

Considering that the products differ only on their content (the flavour) and are the same price and weight, what makes them think that adding an extra one to my order is correct?

*sighs* I accepted it anyways, as it was actually the flavour I wanted, but couldn’t find on the website.

And on another note, darn Firefox for flagging up “flavour” as a spelling mistake. (even with the language set to en_GB!)

openSUSE mail glitch

2008-02-04T13:12:59+00:00

Last week I received an email telling me I had been deleted from the openSUSE mailing list! What? Why? What have...

I want one…

2008-01-23T20:22:02+00:00

If you are viewing this on a planet, you may need to click here to view the video

iGo Stowaway Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard

2008-01-22T09:33:32+00:00

I’ve just purchased this super cool fold away keyboard for my Nokia N810 and 6300 mobile phone. I couldn’t figure out how...

Updated Nokia N810 review

2008-01-21T13:35:16+00:00

I was a very lucky boy this year and Santa left me a Nokia N810 under the Christmas tree, it’s...

Wireless! Woo!

2008-01-19T03:29:58+00:00

Hehe. As I’m moving soon, and I’m only going to have wireless internet, I thought I’d sit down and have a look to see whether the D-Link USB adapter I’ve had for about 2 years would actually work with Linux, which, while it had previously picked up details of the networks, never seemed to work.

After reading through a couple of Ubuntu Wiki Pages, I managed to download, compile and install the working module - and guess what - it works!

Now this is great news - I won’t have to go out and search for a new Wireless Dongle/Card, and well - seeing as the end of my ethernet cable is missing the clip, and keeps falling out of the router, I can now use wireless! woohoo! (and it’s even working with WPA!)

Oh, and hello Planet #bitfolk

PlexyDesk

2008-01-11T09:28:20+00:00

This dropped in one of my feeds this morning I just had to reproduce it. The PlexyDesk (http://code.google.com/p/plexydesk) project was...

PHP Conference

2008-01-07T17:21:34+00:00

It’s coming up to that time of year when the London PHP Conference is gearing up and getting ready to go.

Head on over to http://www.phpconference.co.uk/ to book your tickets!

War Dialling ?

2008-01-07T14:11:37+00:00

When a few people in IRC noticed Daniel Silverstone’s post about his new phone number, that started a whole conversation regarding whether his number crunching alogorithm was good enough.

I made a lovely script in PHP, which told me the numbers that it could have been.

There are 67786 combinations that it could be, it took me about 27 seconds to find that once I’d written and debugged the code.

It’s an interesting puzzle, so if you’re bored, why not write some code and see whether you can get the same answer?

Who needs a computer?

2008-01-07T13:17:12+00:00

Following on from a post by Aq (http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/01/04/technology-i-would-like-that-isnt-here-yet) (LugRadio (http://www.lugradio.org/)) about HUD (Heads up display) for his glasses and some posts...

The Facebook equivalent of…

2008-01-06T01:20:29+00:00

“I am your father”

KDE4 will eat your children

2008-01-04T22:42:43+00:00

It’s official, The President said it

On another note - one heck of a day at work. I need a drink

Stand back, I know regular expressions

2008-01-03T01:09:12+00:00

So, after the last blog post, I was talking to Seveas and mentioned how I thought with all the nifty and useful commands coming in on here, I might make a niftyutils package. The conversation is as follows

<Mez> thinking of compiling a few of these into a nifty-utils package
<Seveas> so we have coreutils, moreutils and nifty-utils?
<Seveas> just contribute them to moreutils
<Mez> and a few more
<Mez> patch-utils being the most obvious
<Mez> findutils, psutils …
<Seveas> dennis@mirage:~$ apt-cache -n search utils | wc -l
<Seveas> 266

Ok, so I had to get one up on this, as I only wanted fooutils, not foo-utils or foo-utils-bar, and came up with

apt-cache search utils | awk '{print $1}' | egrep '^.*[^-]utils$' | wc -l

for which I got told off. Awk can do everything, so why pipe to grep?

After a bit of back and forthing, the equivalent command, without egrep is

apt-cache search utils | awk '/^[[:alnum:]]*([-[:alnum:]])*[^-]utils[[:space:]].*/' | wc -l

I think the first version was prettier.

Oh, and another comment relating to my last post, specially going out for “Bork Fomb”:- I’ve deleted your post, and I’m glad I have approval on here - you could have done some damage to people who didn’t know what that does, so here’s a special command, just for you

sudo iptables -I INPUT -s 77.185.71.113 -j DROP

Nifty commands

2008-01-02T23:34:42+00:00

So, helping someone with an issue earlier (amarok had crashed and they couldn’t kill it properly), I told them to issue the following command

ps x | awk '/amarok/ {print $1}' | xargs kill -9

Now, this is a command I use a lot to kill programs that are being evil (generally, I use it to kill evolution!)

But the comment came back “That’s nifty!”

So I’ve got to ask, what are your favourite “nifty” commands? and what do they do?

<edit> So far, within 5 mins of posting this, I’ve had 2 people ask why I don’t just use killall

mez@apathy:~$ ps x -ocommand | grep [e]vo
evolution
/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-1.12 <snip>
/usr/lib/evolution/2.12/evolution-exchange-storage <snip>

Santa gave me a Nokia N810 (Update)

2007-12-27T18:06:39+00:00

Having played with my Nokia N810 for a couple of days now I need to update some of my criticisms. Updating and installing...

Santa gave me a Nokia N810

2007-12-26T06:46:42+00:00

I was a very lucky boy this year and Santa left me a Nokia N810 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810) under the Christmas tree,...

Dicing with death en route to work

2007-12-20T11:24:55+00:00

Today on the way to work, a truck crashed into the railway bridge as my train was going over it. Luckily, noone was injured, and it was right by the station I had to get off at anyway. Now at work, but have an interesting photo to add to my collection

(Click for full size image)

Sorry about the quality, it was taken on my Mobile Phone Camera… which I spent ages playing with someone else’s Vista machine so I could get the picture off of it. Damned Proprietary Software. I should go get a greenphone

Linux Outlaws

2007-12-20T04:55:13+00:00

For the past couple of months I've been listening to Linux Outlaws (http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/) its a fairly new podcast by a...

Knitting … again

2007-12-17T22:39:00+00:00

Corey, glad to know - I’m not arguing - I’m sure all three (perl, purl and pearl) are right.

Anyway, lets put our differences aside and congregate in #ubuntu-knitting

Knitting

2007-12-17T12:58:55+00:00

Corey,

1) I’m a PHP developer
2) I know barely anything about knitting
3) It’s actually “purl”

An insight into the mind…

2007-12-15T20:55:25+00:00

So, a few years back, I started playing around with some photos, and started my own mini “An Insight into the mind” series, which was basically me taking photos of my friends, and adding captions to them, a la…

After looking over Aaron’s new Webcomic I decided that it might be a fun idea to start doing the same for a few of the random “Conference” Photo’s you find around.

You can find my first (5 mins) attempt here

I apologise in advance to Zack and Aaron.

So yeah - who think’s I should, who thinks I shouldn’t - answers on a postcard (or just comments will do)

Managing a Community

2007-12-11T17:45:40+00:00

Isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do - you say something to someone on someone’s behalf, and end up getting your head bitten off..

Linux Mint

2007-12-10T12:20:15+00:00

I’m not a huge fan of Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/), I can’t explain why apart from some small personal-preference gripes however I decided to...

Jellyfish attack wipes out salmon farm

2007-11-22T10:25:55+00:00

I must have a sick sense of humour? I saw a headline on the Internet today and it had me in...

Getting things done

2007-11-19T14:05:15+00:00

The last few days have been hard there never seems to be enough time to juggle Work, Family and Linux...

The Archway

2007-11-14T09:20:14+00:00

I shamelessly copied this from Aaron Griffin http://phraktured.net/arch-way.html (http://phraktured.net/arch-way.html)It just emphasises why I like ArchLinux. The Arch Way (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way) is a...

openSUSE 10.3 64 Bit Review #1

2007-10-31T09:44:32+00:00

What’s in the bag then? Some of my friends have been hounding me to do a review of openSUSE 10.3 (http://www.opensuse.org/)...

Leopard MTSServer Problem

2007-10-28T22:27:07+00:00

I bit the bullet and installed OSX 10.5 "Leopard" on Friday. I first did a full backup, then did a clean install and used the Migration Assistant to transfer my user folder, settings and applications from the backup. So far it seems to have worked well, with the exception of several applications (all of which were Mail.app extensions such as MailTags, GPGMail, GrowlMail, etc.)

I did have one annoying issue that I just recently have resolved. I noticed that a process ATSServer was continually eating up lots of my CPU cycles. I eventually tried killing it but it would respawn and resume eating up CPU cycles doing whatever it was doing. After a bit of searching I found that this process is related to Apple Type Services and the problem is typically due to corrupt fonts or a damaged cache file. Long story short, this wasn't the issue and none of the provided fixes helped.

After reading through my log files I found a mention of a permission error, so I decided to run Disk Utility and repair the file permissions on my volume. Then I reboot and the problem seems to be gone.

Hopefully this will help anyone else having this problem.

Southern California Fires

2007-10-24T18:06:50+00:00

As some of you know, my brother Steve lives down in Southern California near San Diego which is where all the fires in California are burning. I've talked with Steve last night and he and his family are fine. There was a fire about six miles away but it is now contained and they are in no immediate danger and have not been evacuated. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way.

Before I talked with him I was pretty worried when I found the below google map marking the fires, evacuation areas, etc. He's pretty much surrounded by fires but they are fortunately far away still. Take a look at that map and see how wide spread the fires are. (Steve lives in San Marcos near Oceanside).

I've also been using Twitter to keep track of the latest news. News seems to break there way faster than the media networks. It's a great use for the technology. If you haven't used twitter it's like the Facebook status messages (*) but much more flexible in that you can choose to follow particular people or key words (tags) and be notified of new messages via twitter.com, SMS, Instant Messaging, etc. There is an API to the service so there are many different clients to access the service. Careful if you use the SMS feature because it can potentially send a lot of messages to your cell phone and may cost you some big $$$

(*) If you have no idea what a Facebook status message is, it's basically a simple way to tell people what you are doing, thinking, feeling, etc. It sounds mundane but it is actually a nice light weight way to keep people up to date on what is happening in your world. Twitter takes this a step further.

Examples of Twitter Commands

follow slangevi - this tells twitter to follow this user and notify you of their updates

leave slangevi - this tells twitter to stop notifying you of the users updates

track sandiegofire - this tells twitter to notify you of any twitter messages that contain this keyword

untrack sandiegofire - this tells twitter to stop notifying you of any twitter messages containing this keyword

Anyways, I thought the use of Google maps and twitter as public announcement tools was interesting and thought I'd pass it along.

Here is some Help on Twitter Commands. Note that the track/untrack command isn't listed as its a fairly new feature.

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Irssi IRC Client

2007-10-16T08:07:55+00:00

Most people use the IRC clients such as Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/), XChat (http://www.xchat.org/), kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) and...

Radio Amarok Website Design competition

2007-10-14T22:40:14+00:00

Radio Amarok is looking for a design for their new website.

As a community project, we’re opening up the design as a competition to the general public, so if you’re an arty type, want to contribute to Open Source, and want your work out there, then please do enter the competition.

Requirements

Minimum requirements for a submission are as follows

The design must be released under a Creative Commons licence
We must receive the minimum of a PNG mock-up, and SVG/PSD sources
All entries must be made before the 31st October
All submissions to be made to submissions@radioamarok.com

After the 31st, the top designs will be picked out by the Radio Amarok team, and a vote will be put out for one week to the general public to decide which design they want for the site.

So, get your virtual paintbrushes out, and get designing - we’ve had some great entries already, and haven’t even announced it yet!

More information will be available soon at http://www.radioamarok.com/

Learning IPTables

2007-10-13T23:33:47+00:00

Generally, I’m pretty lax when it comes to Firewalls in Linux, for the simple fact that I use kubuntu/ubuntu, which opens no ports by default. So any open ports on the system, I generally know about.

Anyway, as I’ve recently had a new server setup for Radio Amarok (many thanks to BitFolk for this, who have provided this service for us) and I knew that it would be something that’s going to be in the public eye, I thought that I better get a firewall up and running

So yes, I’ve been learning how to use Iptables correctly, and having to learn more about how TCP/IP works. I knew the basics, but actually sitting down and learning more about it is definitely interesting. Though, I’ve still not much idea on some issues, like why Aaron Krill’s ISP can’t route him to the Radio Amarok server (Andy Smith tried explaining - but I still had no idea what was going on!)

On another note, Radio Amarok is still looking for help. So if you have anything to offer (we’re looking for sponsors, artists, DJs, and web developers/designers (and at some point we’ll be looking for a sysadmin)), so if you have anything to offer us, feel free to pop into IRC (irc.freenode.net #amarok.radio) or email me (mez AT radioamarok DOT com)

Please please stop it

2007-10-11T08:49:02+00:00

Before I say anymore this is just my personal preference, one mans meat is another mans poison and all that. What...

FUD, Flames, and all that Jazz

2007-10-09T10:55:11+00:00

You know I actually love the Linux community, yep its true, I used to get all emotional when I saw things...

Graphical GIT

2007-10-03T08:31:29+00:00

smspillaz has started work on a GUI installer for GIT (http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/graphical-git-script/) this is really cool for all those who do...

Arch Leadership

2007-10-01T18:41:33+00:00

Judd Vinet is to step down as 'leader' of the ArchLinux project. In an email sent today (http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-October/015681.html) he...

4 Days and counting

2007-10-01T08:46:22+00:00

openSUSE 10.3 has been declared Gold (http://andreasjaeger.blogspot.com/2007/09/opensuse-103-goldmaster.html) the excitement is killing me, looking at the screenshots (http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/v/suse103r1/) and pretending they are my...

Radio Amarok Needs YOU!!!

2007-09-30T22:44:56+00:00

Yep, that’s right - We need you!

Radio Amarok is currently in it’s Research and Development phase, and we’re looking for Artists to showcase on the station.

Radio Amarok will be broadcasting live 24/7 - and dedicated to playing the best in free music! So if you have a band and want to get yourselves out there, then please get in contact!

You can find us in #amarok.radio on freenode, or you can email me on mez .AT. radioamarok .DOT. com

Please note that we will not accept artists who are not willing to do one or more of the following

Release their work under a Creative Commons Licence
Sign a Waiver for Royalty + Dubbing Fees for use on Radio Amarok
Sign with Magnatune

So if you’re a new and upcoming artist, or know of someone who is, the please do get in contact! (and feel free to pass this onto your musical friends!)

It’s amazing what happens when Hardware People are bored

2007-09-30T20:41:36+00:00

Also - the Easter Egg at the Easter Egg Archive

Bored in Reading…

2007-09-29T16:08:36+00:00

Ok, so I moved to Reading last Sunday to start a job here… I’m now working with vBulletin as a developer… which is cool.. and uber and stuff, cause it’s the kind of Job I went to University to get into (before I dropped out because of debt!)

However, now it’s the weekend, I’m not at work, and have nothing to do and noone to do it with.

Ah well, time to drink my vodka and then go invade the local Rock Bar

Quote/Giggle of the day 28/09/2004

2007-09-28T16:34:33+00:00

“For Example. I can see my own privates”