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drivers license?

pekdon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:16:15 +0000

I finally took the first step towards getting myself a drivers license, took my first driving lesson earlier this week. :)

Gal Gtk+ UI

pekdon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:24:17 +0000

Today I did some updates on the Gal Gtk+ interface making use of some new shared code between the different player implementations. Showing the three level version of the interface (which is how the curses interface is laid out) in #pekwm (irc.freenode.org) it was suggested that it’s “better” to have previous two-level view.

Conclusion, as always, user interface design is tricky and for some things an extra configuration option is worth it!

PI

pekdon — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:51:48 +0000

I’ve finally gotten around getting myself a tattoo, was this years x-mas gift to myself. It’s a PI (3.1415…) in the back of my neck. Check it out:

The best thing ever?

pekdon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:58:22 +0000

Last Friday I noticed this wonderful invention while being in the park and I just had to get one myself. A portable LP player from Numark! Check it out:

Music music music..

pekdon — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:00:17 +0000

Just ordered some music:

1 x CONTRAST, The aka HIGH CONTRAST: Days Go By (The Contrast)
	  12": (CONTRAST 00)
1 x KALILASKOV AS: Killas 2008 (Digital Drugs Germany)
	  CD: (DIGICD 006)
1 x DYNAMIC: The Remixes (Fineplay)
	  CD: (FIN1CD 007)
1 x TECH ITCH/KEMAL/COSMO/DIBS: The Calling (Big Riddims)
	  12": (BGRDM 001)
1 x WILDLIFE COLLECTIVE: Sugar Me (Jungle Cakes UK)
	  12": (JC 001)
1 x Merrow: Born Underwater (Suntrip)
	  CD: (SUNCD 12CD)

Will pick out the highlights when I’ve listened to it all.

HP-Pavilion A6634SC

pekdon — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:41:19 +0000

I have been using my mac mini for quite some time now but I’ve been wanting to play with OpenSolaris and see what ZFS and Zones can do for me, don’t require much hardware to do the actual testing but my mini didn’t seem that willing to play and I couldn’t be bothered.

Have not had the time to play much but OpenSolaris comes with ZFS as the default filesystem, nothing special to do to get going there, have not been playing with the interesting stuff as snapshots, raid-z etc yet.

Zones, have just gotten started there getting some base zones up and running and I must say getting started was almost too easy. Will see if I get some time to do some actual tweaking here soon.

In general I am satisified with the machine but it could have been a bit less noisy, it is not noisy, just a tiny bit more than my mac mini but until machines are 100% silent I will continue complaining.

Tynset, small update

pekdon — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:37:08 +0000

I’ve spent christmas up here in Tynset together with Elines family, very nice place with splendid nature, good food and nice people. Just thought I should share some photos taken with my mobile:

Apart from relaxing work has been done on pekwm, 0.1.9 and 0.1.9a has been released and most likely a 0.1.9b is on the way cleaning up after my sloppyness. When that is done the work on pekwm 0.2.0 should start, it’s going to be fun to get some new ideas and concepts going. Stay tuned for updates.

More music, more code and more life?!

pekdon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:13:48 +0000

I not so surprisingly got myself some more music, highlights are:

Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart
Hot Chip – The Warning
Count Basie – The Complete Atomic Basie

Wonder why I haven’t gotten around getting anything with Hot Chip before, I strongly recomend that album.

On the coding front I’ve been working some on pekwm and with the help of IOError a 0.1.8 release is coming closer. GAL is progressing as well, mako rewrite is done and new CGI support is progressing, will rewrite the client to use GStreamer and GIO for playback of files over HTTP which is a solution that hopefully is more robust and tested compared to streaming directly into mpg123.

All in all I’m very much alive it seems, creating is living!

Protect me from what I want?

pekdon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:27:46 +0000

Due to reasons that you do not control, you might not have the possibility to make things “the right way TM” and are going for an alternate solutiuon.

This applies to all kinds of things but it brings up the question: “Who is to decide things are so wrong you should not be able to do them?”

Honestly I do not know what is a good idea or not, to force or not to force, but it sometimes indeed is rather annoying like right now when I had to compile my own version of smbmount as plaintext password authentication was disabled and not possible to enable via /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags.

Regarding the post title, “Protect me from what I want” is a great song by Placebo!

The right tool for the job?

pekdon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:15:45 +0000

Just been thinking about what tools to use for what tasks and as always I never come to any good conclusions.

However, using the wrong tools for the job can cause major headache and reduce the productivity a lot.

Right now it feels like I am trying to fly with the help of a broken toothbrush!