Monthly Archives: September 2006

drawing attention to drm

Posted on Saturday, 30th September 2006 by david

http://defectivebydesign.org/en/blog/announce_day_against_drm Something we should all care about.

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office and pdf

Posted on Thursday, 28th September 2006 by david

For more years than I care to remember I’ve been using Microsoft Office. It’s one of those applications that has become an industry standard – but one that requires you to be running Windows or Mac. These days I rarely … Continue reading →

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songbird sings

Posted on Wednesday, 27th September 2006 by david

Songbird has finally released a Linux download. It installed easily and then simply ran. I had to add the gstreamer-0.10-ugly package to Ubuntu to get mp3 playback working, but it basically just installed and ran – very nice. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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feathercast on a roll

Posted on Monday, 25th September 2006 by david

I’ve just finished editing episode 13 of Feathercast. It’s scheduled to be published in around a week from now (subsribe to the feed now to avoid missing any episodes!), which will mark the 3rd consecutive Monday with a new episode … Continue reading →

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ubuntu and usb

Posted on Tuesday, 19th September 2006 by david

One of the really good things about Ubuntu was the ability it demonstrates to “just work”. Plug in a USB device and bing! It’s there. Or at least it was. For some reason it now doesn’t detect when I plug … Continue reading →

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skype phone

Posted on Monday, 11th September 2006 by david

Until skype my father never really used the computer much. Or more accurately he never used the computer much himself. He would always have others write the emails or surf to the pages he wanted, but that was before he … Continue reading →

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community information

Posted on Wednesday, 6th September 2006 by david

One of the projects I’ve been interested in working on for quite a while now has been gathering and sisplaying information from all the committers involved with the ASF. The number is over 1200 now and keeps growing, so it’s … Continue reading →

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w3slidy

Posted on Tuesday, 5th September 2006 by david

A recent post (aggregated on PlanetRDF) pointed to W3Slidy. Fundamentally it’s just stylesheets and some javascript, but it does lower the bar considerably for creating presentations and allows a huge amount of flexability. I’ve written my presentation for ApacheCon US … Continue reading →

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european cafepress?

Posted on Sunday, 3rd September 2006 by david

Does anyone know of a site that offers similar functionality to cafepress but based in europe? The high cost of shipping does dent the appeal of ordering from the US site somewhat and to date their european offerings seem to … Continue reading →

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incredible lag

Posted on Saturday, 2nd September 2006 by david

I’ve just used the latest linux Skype beta (1.3.0.37) for a 20 minute call. The lag was incredible! I’ve never heard anything like it. By the end of the call it was around 15-20 seconds, which does defeat the point … Continue reading →

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audacity annoyances

Posted on Friday, 1st September 2006 by david

Last weekend I recorded an interview for feathercast about Austin (site of the next ApacheCon). Nothing unusual in this. As usual I fired up audacity to edit it and started doing the usual things that are needed. The first time … Continue reading →

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epd

Posted on Friday, 1st September 2006 by david

epd is “Event Picture Displayer”. It came from an idea I’d had for a while now but hadn’t managed to get very far on. with the upcoming ApacheCon US I had a slight motivation to see if it was possible, … Continue reading →

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