Archive for March, 2005

Two great internet radio stations

I’ve found two great internet radio stations recently, thanks to pointers from two different blogs.
First up is Egg Radio, which is “Streaming Alternative Classic Modern Rock on the Internet 24 hours a day.” And they’re doing a damned good job of it. I listened for a couple of hours the first night I found the [...]

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Best teeny-tiny crontab tip EVER

This seeming innocuous article on wait and sleep contains the best crontab hint I’ve ever seen. It’s tiny, just a small portion of the article, but it’s amazing. You’ll have to scroll down on the page to find it; look for the big yellow box.
This might also be one of the coolest use of comments [...]

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PCWorld.com writes up my desktop manager: Xfce

PCWorld.com published a great review of Xfce in February. I’m just posting the article now for two reasons: this blog didn’t exist when the article was published, and I wasn’t using Xfce then.
I actually just switched over this weekend. (One has a surprising amount of free time when one has a combination of flu and [...]

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Decemberists release music video via bittorrent

I knew there was a reason why I love the Decemberists! As if putting out very good indie alternative isn’t good enough, the Decemberists have released the video for “16 Military Wives” for download via bittorrent! Included are instructions for how to download and install bittorrent and Azareus.
That, my friends, is cool!

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New video card = massive hardware re-config

Well, this ought to be a lot of fun. I make use of two personal computers. One is a Gateway Select, powered by an Athlon 700MHz processor. This was once my main computer (back when 700MHz was a pretty beefy system), then got demoted to the wife’s computer, and then got re-commissioned as my main [...]

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Finally finished – Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

First, a little back story here. I love pretty much Legend of Zelda game that has ever been made. I rememeber standing in line to get the original game for the Nintendo Game System. I played it for hours. I tried to play every game that was released since then. And I waited with baited [...]

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The new Doctor Who…

In case you haven’t heard, the first episode of the new Doctor Who is available online via a bittorrent torrent. I nabbed the 340mb AVI file and watched it this morning. And I was very impressed. After all the talk about the changes that would be made to the show had me very worried that [...]

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