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Thoughts from Madrailers

First off, yes, I know I haven’t put anything up here in six months.  That’s my mistake.  I’ll try to do better in the future. Honestly, I just haven’t felt like writing in that time period. Until today. Well, technically yesterday night. Whatever. Yesterday, I had the wonderful experience of meeting a fantastic group of [...]

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RBEQ 1.4 – GStreamer Presets

1.4 of the RBEQ, the Rhythmbox Equalizer, is out and ready for download. The big change here is a switch from storing presets in a flat file to using the GStreamer Preset system.

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Exploring the Droid

Recently I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with my new phone. The previous statement isn’t much of a surprise in this day in age, but I think I should qualify what I mean. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with the software internals of my new phone.

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Quandary (part 1)

I wish to pose a question to the masses, particularly to other available software developers. Take this statement: “The more screwed up the process, the longer you have a job.” How does that make you feel? Does it bother or amuse you? Would you feel uncomfortable hearing it from a coworker? A boss? When does [...]

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RbEQ update

ATTENTION Note: This project is still in progress. Please travel to the Google Code Project for more. Not really an update of the software per se, just letting everyone know I haven’t forgotten about it. I have two computers at home; one desktop mainly purposed for gaming and general usage, the other is an older, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Ontology brief

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 [...]

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