eric’s extremeboredom

I was tired of the jabber.org server going down every 20 minutes so I decided I needed to switch to a new jabber server. Rather than just going with my google account like a lot of people have been doing lately, I figured that since I was going through the trouble of switching IDs anyway, [...]

Yesterday on IRC someone asked how they could create a site like http://docs.gotmono.net/ containing documentation for their project, so I spent a little bit of time making it really easy. $ svn co https://svn.extremeboredom.net/Monique/trunk ./Monique cd Monique ./autogen.sh make make run (WARNING! I have NOT tested “make install” so I don’t recomend trying it. I [...]

Having trouble playing DVDs, MP3s, DiVX, AAC/MP4, XViD or WMV audio/video files on your Ubuntu Breezy system? Since these fomats are all proprietary, the companies that invented them require that developers purchase a (very expensive) license to legally decode (play back) files in these formats (with the exception of XViD which has had a completely [...]

The wiki page describing how to install the accelerated nvidia drivers on the Ubuntu Linux wiki was very poorly written and basically just completly wrong. I spent a little bit of time cleaning it up, please let me know if you have any comments. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia Obviously this whole process is much much more complicated than [...]

Don’t have any big thanksgiving plans? Or, think you are going to need something calm and relaxing to do after eating a little bit more than you think you should have? Come join us on #ubuntu-bugzilla (freenode) for Ubuntu Bug Day 2005! From The Fridge: Daniel Holbach sent out a reminder that this Thursday, November [...]

I spent a little bit of time today and got my documentation system running again. I also updated it with the very latest GTK# 2.7.1 and Mono 1.1.10 class library documentation. Announcing: http://docs.gotmono.net/ ! Thanks to the AJAX.net library, you will never see the entire page reload, yet the contents tree will always stay in [...]

This was posted to the mailing list yesterday, nobody else blogged it so I figured I might as well: We have also released an unstable version of gtk+ 2.8 bindings for people who want to start experimenting with the cairo API. This release is not for the faint of heart, and comes with no API [...]

I will be giving an informal presentation with Andrew about Mono and Meshwork at Seattle Mind Camp next month. Seattle Mind Camp is a self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab. What happens when you put 150 of Seattle’s smartest geeks in an empty office building for 24 hours? We’re not sure either, but we’d [...]

Worked a little bit on QuickThumbs this week and fixed a whole ton of bugs. If you have a few minutes to spare, a directory with a bunch of images/photos on your drive, and mono/xsp/libgdiplus installed (1.1.9 recomended), here’s something to try: cd /path/to/images/or/photos/or/whatever/ svn co https://svn.extremeboredom.net/QuickThumbs/trunk/web . xsp Now open your web browser to [...]

Those of you reading this via monologue (http://go-mono.org/monologue) have no doubt already noticed that the new look is now online! This matches the new http://www.mono-project.org/ website (which I did not have anything to do with) and brings us the talk bubbles from the Planet websites that everyone is used to. If you are listed on [...]