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Books, Gaming News, Geekery, Ramblings / March 5, 2008 / John / 1
Gary Gygax, legendary co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died today at age 69. For three decades, his work has allowed children and adults alike to escape real-life and take on the persona of mighty warriors, haughty magic users and sneaky rogues. To a lot of people, it seems like the man did nothing
Geekery / March 2, 2008 / John / 0
Well, that turned out to be less a drama than expected. So, I put a gNewSense partition on my laptop last night and here’s how it panned out: Wireless: obviously, the card has a working driver as it’s been in the kernel for a while. What we don’t have, though, is the firmware – a
Geekery / March 1, 2008 / John / 1
I had a nasty shock the other day when I ran vrms and discovered that half the software I’m running isn’t actually free. This seems to have happened by stealth – partly by the insidious creeping nature of the words “Open Source” and partly by my own complacency. The first one – this page will
Geekery / February 5, 2008 / John / 0
Ok, so those of you who read my article on MPD & Jinzora may have had a play with Jinzora since I published it. And it’s very good. One complaint I’d level at it, though, is that it can be a little sluggish on lower end boxes (like the one I’m running it on). Anyhoo,
Geekery / January 6, 2008 / John / 0
In a recent report, the European Union commissioner for information society and media made a breathtakingly naive statement in support of DRM, mere days after consumer pressure has managed to convince the mainstream music publishers that applying arbitrary restrictions to users use of the music they’ve bought is a bad idea. The last thing the anti-DRM
Geekery / October 17, 2007 / John / 2
OK, so some of you will remember this article where I was babbling on at great length about setting up a media center using mp3, jinzora, and so on. Well, I hit a small snag a bit down the line and thought I’d share the adventure with you lot. Basically, the problem is this: mpd
Geekery / October 3, 2007 / John / 0
According to El Reg: Users of encryption technology can no longer refuse to reveal keys to UK authorities after amendments to the powers of the state to intercept communications took effect on Monday (Oct 1). The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) has had a clause activated which allows a person to be compelled to
Geekery / September 23, 2007 / John / 0
Should probably mentioned at the time. While the web interface provided by Jinzora is lovely, it can occasionally be a hammer to crack a nut. Fortunately, the mpd back end can be controlled by a myriad of client applications with only one small tweak. Assuming your Ubuntu box is behind a firewall (and it should