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The Job Hunt is Over, and RBeq moves!
I’ve found a place to work, and it’s right around where home is. I’m currently working as a contractor on the Rock Island Arsenal, as a contractor through a company based in Virgina called Sysorex. Essentially, I’m reviewing and cleaning up code written for a transportation system. Outside of that, Rhythmbox EQ has found a [...]
Tags: code, equalizer, girlfriend, google code, I Fight Dragons, IFD, left, programming, RBEQ
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Rhythmbox EQ update!
ATTENTION Note: This project is still in progress. Please travel to the Google Code Project for more. Update: Today RBEQ 1.3 was released. Find it on the google code page. Yes, a month plus later than expected, RBEQ version 1.1 is out. Updates since the last release: The window for the equalizer no longer wrests [...]
Tags: development, equalizer, Open Source, rhythmbox, update
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Rhythmbox EQ
ATTENTION Note: This project is still in progress. Please travel to the Google Code Project for more. UPDATE: The Rhythmbox EQ has been updated. You can find it at google code. 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 [...]
Tags: debian, development, equalizer, fedora, music, Open Source, plugin, rhythmbox, Ubuntu
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iGoogle vs. Netvibes
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 [...]
Tags: ajax, browsing, google, homepage, netvibes, rss, startup pages, Web
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The Onion – Product Knowledge and Control
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.
Tags: frustration, sony, theonion, video
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Slashdot | Teachers Need an Open Source Education
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 [...]
Tags: browsers, education, educational technology, magic box, MS, Open Source, pebkac, Ubuntu
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Human Stupidity, Part I
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 [...]
Tags: human stupidity, magic box, MS, Office, pebkac, Ubuntu, Verizon
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