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 [...]

Yesterday I helped Matt Westervelt put together a page for Seattle Wireless’s Node Fundraiser, he announced it today: SeattleWireless needs your help to put a wireless node on the Capitol Hill Radio Towers. This node will be able to connect Seattle neighborhoods and can possibly be used for longer distance links as well. It is [...]

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 [...]

The first comes from RIAA president Cary Sherman said that sony “acted very responsibly” to the rootkit/xcp situation (As seen here): “The problem with the SonyBMG situation is that the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware. They have apologized for their mistake, ceased manufacture of CDs with that technology,and [...]

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 [...]

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69559,00.html From the article: A lot has been written about this issue already. But a lot more needs to be said to ensure Sony gets the message: This kind of behavior can never be tolerated. It may be unrealistic to think many will heed this call, but someone’s got to say it: Boycott Sony. Boycott [...]