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Archive for May 2010

Playing a song as a background process in Windows

Sometimes you ask yourself how to do cool things like playing a song in the background (ie. no visible interface or application) upon login on a Windows box. Being completely unfamiliar with using DOS I wasn’t quite sure how to go about doing this, but apparently it was quite easy. So here I am documenting [...]

Marketing noise or marketing contribution?

I follow a few feed planets here and there. For the unitiated (few), a planet is an aggregation of blog feeds, normally filtered by topic so that interested readers can get the scoop from multiple sources from as central location. An interesting point which crops up once in a while is what determines whether or [...]

Even though not a gamer, join me and many others to make Linux a economical reality for companies by purchasing a Humble Indie Bundle! 17 hours left!

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New Wikipedia logo is terrible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Plans for E2-Productions.com to turn into a personal cloud?

Alert! Alert! Buzzword! Yes, before we start, let’s clear up with what I mean when I say "personal cloud". A personal cloud is a web-accessable system which centralises the function of common web 2.0 services, which may or may not be social. For those that aren’t familiar with this jargon, web 2.0 services are those [...]

Yep, we’re out of cheese.

It was our last official day at school yesterday. We’ve now been kicked out for intense studying for our upcoming exams. Great school, great teachers, great peers. I must say I’ve really enjoyed my time there and experienced a load of stuff I don’t think I would’ve elsewhere. There was a faint nostalgia in the [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) – packed with goodies.

Just because I use Gentoo doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate a little Just Work ™ once in a while, and from what they’d like people to believe, Ubuntu apparently does just that. You’d be a fool to argue that Ubuntu doesn’t play a vital part of the Linux ecosphere, and so despite my customiserish nature [...]

May desktop screenshot!

http://wipup.org/updates/view/118/

WIPUP now supports video updates!

Well the Eadrax code (what WIPUP runs on) has always supported updates with video attachments but the live WIPUP site never got to see it in action due to the server not having ffmpeg (video swiss-army knife) installed and playing nice with the latest codecs, permissions, and whatnot. Over the past few days our lovely [...]