Monthly Archives: February 2006

Wobbly windows in Dapper

Posted on February 18, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

There were a lot of upgrades today in Dapper. And it turns out compiz is one of them. So I installed it and xserver-xgl. Here’s how I got it running. First install the xserver-xgl and compiz packages using apt-get or … Continue reading →

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Multi-input touch screens

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

Multi-input touch screen demos (Flash required).  This is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.  The more I watch it the more I want to make it work.  It definitely feels like that’s going to be the next generation in … Continue reading →

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Planet categories

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

Well, mpop is back on the planet because he showed me how I can just subscribe to his technology category on his blog. I have since learned that wordpress is able to do this too. Ive been thinking about adding … Continue reading →

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SoundConverter

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

We’ve all had an MP3 or FLAC that we’ve wanted OGGed and I’m sure we’ve all made bashscripts to do this for us but there’s an easier way! SoundConverter is a GNOME gui application that allows us to transcode our … Continue reading →

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Copyright Infringed

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

So the author of Listen has taken code from Quod Libet (including code from my lyrics plugin) and ripped the copyright section (and my name) out and used it in his software. Now the code is GPL so I’m completely … Continue reading →

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Saturday Night

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

Last night was looking light it was going to be another boring Saturday night. Extreme boredom calls for extreme measures so I e-mailed the Kobe ESS mailing list asking if anyone was doing something. Turns out my friend Jose from … Continue reading →

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Test 2

Posted on February 3, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

I botched something up in WordPress by using the Google toolbar’s spelling function. But I think it’s fixed now… Nope

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Ubuntu Dapper

Posted on February 3, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

The next release of Ubuntu version 06.04 is called Dapper. Because my friend Joe was upgrading Quod Libet to use version 0.10 of the Gstreamer framework and needed help testing it I decided I’d upgrade to Dapper. The upgrade went … Continue reading →

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Testing… Testing…

Posted on February 3, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

Well, looks like there’s finally been a release of the LivePress plugin for WordPress 2.0.  I can’t edit my LJ account settings in it but here’s to hoping it still works.

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