Corner of Seven

Good evening everyone!

I’ve finally gotten to the point where my basic rhythmbox equalizer is up and running, so I figured I’d let the package sit here as an available download.  I’ll also link it to the rhythmbox devels, in hopes that it generates a bit more interest, and someone might come along and clean up and add to it more, in the true open source sense.

You can download the package here: Click Me!.

Installation instructions:

Uncompress this package using an archive utility (file-roller) to the ~/.gnome2 directory, or use the following command:

tar -xvzf rbeq.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2

And that’s it!  Open rhythmbox, and go to “Edit -> Plugins” and select “Rhythmbox Equalizer.”

Screenshot (by request):

Screencap for the Rhythmbox EQ.

It feels good to finally have a project of my own out there to help the community.   Ciao!

Hey guys -

I know I don’t update this much, but I figured that I’d say something real quick about the job hunt.  I applied for Mailtrust, an email hosting company in Blacksburg, VA a couple of weeks ago.  On Monday, I received an email stating that they have met their hiring quota for the quarter, and that they’d start opening up hiring again in a couple months.  So, bust.  My current aspiration is with a trading company called IMC, at their branch office located in Chicago.  I’m still waiting on a response from them, so we’ll see what happens.  I’d really like to know that I’ve found something before the end of the school year, which is approaching quickly.  I’ve got about 2 weeks left with all of my studies, and then I’m off for the real world.  Yikes.

Take care, all.

In the realm of personal web startup pages and managing, these two titular offerings stand out.  I offer to you as readers the option to try out both, in hopes that one of them sticks for you.  For me, it makes the time working around trying to find my usual morning reads of pages, blogs and activities like twitter and facebook that much easier to take care of. read more »

Found this earlier today on Wil Wheaton’s blog, and I think that it very well fits the message given on this site as well.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
I’ll get some stuff put up here later, because I’ve been neglecting this little corner of webspace.

Slashdot | Teachers Need an Open Source Education.

A rather good set of readings showed up on Slashdot today; I was especially interested in this one concerning Apathy, Lies and Fear.

In the articles listed above, the issues arise when teachers do not have the knowledge of what something does.  It’s a situation of brand loyalty taken much too far.

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Well, I’ve gotten myself a way to make money this year – I’m working on some research for one of my professors. We’re designing a knowledge base/data mining tool for HIV research, and we’ll be using a product called protege (http://protege.stanford.edu) to handle the similarities in the data and the operations on them. I’ve got a brief ontology ready up here, at This OWLDoc link. Let me know what you think.

Sometimes, there’s a story that causes people to stand up and say something.  This is one of those moments.  I caught this article when I was looking at my news stories in the morning on Slashdot (http:/slashdot.org):

Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes
stonedcat writes “A Wisconsin woman has claimed that Dell computers and Ubuntu have kept her from going back to school via online classes. She says she has called Dell to request Windows instead however was talked out of it. Her current claim is that she was unaware that she couldn’t install her Verizon online disk to access the Internet, nor could she use Microsoft Word to type up her papers.”
(pulled from http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/15/158216)

So here we have a prototypical case where a computer user who is unfamiliar with a new operating system has trouble with her computer because it’s not what she’s used to.  I can accept that.  Then, I proceed to read the article (Something rarely heard of on Slashdot…)

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Yes, I actually am still here, it’s just been an interesting past few weeks as I got things organized and moved about. I’ll have more on it here in a bit.

Caught this on Neatorama the other day, and I figured I’d share it – probably one of the coolest uses of a microwave tower I’ve seen in a long time.

Merry Christmas, guys and gals.

In an effort to try and figure out exactly how I want to have this site run, I’ve decided to scrap everything, yet again, and start over fresh.  I’m going to separate the main site from the blog, and keep my blog running at http://blog.cornerofseven.com instead.  Hopefully, I can keep track of this a little bit better this way, and things stay a little more upkept.