The best audio player on Linux (for me) is XMMS. That is a sad state of affairs, since I really would like to use a player with more organizational capabilities like playlists et. al. A lot of people recommended amaroK as “the latest and greatest” audio player for Linux, and so I proceeded to download [...]
Apple’s has released Boot Camp, which basically allows installation of Windows XP on any Intel-based Macintosh computer. This means that Windows XP will now run natively on any Intel Mac at no extra charge (bootcamp, unlike Virtual PC, is free). This isn’t emulation, this isn’t virtualization, this is plain old installing Windows on a machine [...]
Spotted on bash.org: <sceadu> i really need to figure out how to use a debugger in emacs <iank> pfft, how could you *not* know? <iank> It’s just ctrl+alt+meta+f7+numlock+c+e+m+< <iank> Hell, you could discover that by accident in emacs..
They say Mac software has a personality of its own, and it’s true. Just that sometimes one has personality clashes, if you know what I mean. I was bored with the default screensavers on the Mac and decided to install BigClock, which basically displays the time and date in a huge font on the screen. [...]
The Singapore Science Center was recently hosting this exhibition. After weeks of putting it off, Ravi and I went there just one week before it was closing down. As expected, it was a really awesome experience. Especially for people like us who are are hopelessly tied to the Star Wars universe. To me, the best [...]
At the end of April 1st, I guess the score is 1-1. One that didn’t fool me was an SMS that was going around saying “Call me. Urgent” on the first page and only when you scrolled down did you read the joke. This one didn’t fool me – mostly because someone else had told [...]
I was always fascinated by the idea of photography, I recall playing with a Kodak 1000 automatic film camera when I was 14. Since then, I’ve always owned a camera. Yet for the longest time, the camera was a gadget to take out when an occasion demanded – festivals, holidays, parties, weddings and the like. [...]
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