I've recently moved back to using irssi as my IRC client, because when combined with GNU screen it can be kept independent of a graphical session, or even better, of a particular client machine (if you have a server somewhere). Since I have a home fileserver at the moment ...
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MPD + PulseAudio + Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10)
Update (2009/04/12)
It appears that as of Ubuntu Jaunty everything now obeys the system-wide setting properly, so you only need to edit /etc/default/pulseaudio and add the user to pulse-access.
I'm a big fan of MPD, and up until the last few months I used it ...
Read more...Universities push for higher fees
My comment on a recent BBC News article "Universities push for higher fees":
Read more...I'm a university student from a low-income background, and having started my course just after the last raise in fees took effect, I knew from the beginning that I'd be finishing with £32k of debt ...
My painless Linux "upgrade" process
I like to keep up to date with the latest version of any Linux distro I use (naturally), but for some reason I don't trust the upgrade process to work properly and/or not leave a load of cruft behind. I've actually attempted an upgrade once just to ...
Read more...C linked list macro
Here's a simple macro I came up with a few weeks ago for easily defining linked list types in C:
#define LINKED_LIST(type, name) \ struct name ## _ { \ struct name ## _ * next; \ type data; \ }; \ typedef struct name ## _ name;
Usage is simple:
LINKED_LIST(int, int_ll);
gives the same type as ...
Read more...Why I dislike PulseAudio (for now)
Before this sounds like a rant, I'd like to first say that I think PulseAudio is a very nice concept, from a technical perspective. It's about time Linux got a manageable sound subsystem, and some of the features---such as network streaming and synchronised playback---are quite impressive.
However, one ...
Read more...The curse of Firefox extensions
Today is my first day of Firefox usage after a three-week break - a break which taught me something...
First, a little background. I've been using Firefox since 0.9, and generally its always been the best browser for me. However, recently I lost my taste for it due to ...
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