Monthly Archives: December 2008

RIAA working with ISPs instead of suing the little guy

December 20, 2008 – 11:24

To me we’re worse off; now their actions are out of the mainstream view and we’re subject to investigation and monitoring devoid of any real pro-active control. We’re now at the complete mercy of the ISPs.
I don’t want to be filtered or have my communications monitored and subjected to the scrutiny of a private company [...]

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Ubuntu & Xubuntu – No sound in Audacious

December 18, 2008 – 22:57

mplayer, vlc and even the horrible Totem would play my music, but my favourite media player — Audacious — wouldn’t. I like Audacious because of its plugins and subtle interface. Some searching around the web didn’t find many solutions except suggesting that the output plugin was incorrect. I managed to fix this by changing from [...]

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Define Eviscerated. Google Says No.

December 10, 2008 – 12:16

I’m not quite sure if the following is ironic or not. There’s definitely something amusing about it. Check this Google result out:

WTF?

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Favourite Quote: “Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence. Simplicity does.”

December 5, 2008 – 09:52

This excellent phrase was coined by Lawrence “Larry” Bossidy, the retired CEO of Allied Signal. What I find particularly interesting about this quote is that it’s so eloquently structured and an example of what it’s stating; the statement is simple yet intelligent. Here it is in all its wonderful, quoted glory:
“Complexity has nothing to do [...]

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