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I didn't spend nine years in Evil Computing School to be called 'mister', thank you very much.
So I actually forgot to ever actually post anything about finally ever handing over the books and forms and such and escaping the University for hopefully the penultimate time. That's done. I have a letter from the Student Services Officer informing me that the School Board is reccommending to the Senate of the University that I actually be awarded ( Read more... ) -
Mr. Bond, you persist in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you.
The PhD continues to linger, and thus so does this journal ( Read more... ) -
Anti-(anti-nuclear propaganda).
Lewis Page's analysis could do with a wider distribution, given the continual torrent of nonsense spewing out of the "trustworthy" BBC.
Update: Yet more calling out the scaremongerers. -
Blocking Windows Media Player's Folder.jpg
If you use Windows Media Player under Windows 7 (say, because all media players are terrible, but this one at least vaguely integrates with the system), you may have noticed it has the worst heuristics for album art ever. The problem (well, a problem, and one which makes a lot of noise on Google) is the idiotic assumption that if any track (picked ( Read more... ) -
The End. Almost. Sort of.
I think it's reaching time for ths journal to come to an end. Quite aside from LiveJournal's own decay in terms of everything but advertising, it's now my primary source of spam from the comment system. So I'm probably going to have ljgrabber lock all the doors and maybe one day I'll actually host something under my control that isn't full of ( Read more... ) -
Useful metadata which your MP3 software will ignore.
disctag is something trivial I just threw together (literally-it's past-midnight Perl, so if you care about it getting confused and chewing up your tags make backups first) as a post-step for abcde, a frontend for CDDB/cdparanoia/lame (et. al.) which-despite being a huge hairball of sh-remains one of the few ways to turn a CD into a bunch of MP3s ( Read more... ) -
So much for getting the PhD over with for Christmas.
Viva delayed some more until next year. -
FreeChain for 64-bit Windows.
Since someone e-mailed me about it(!), I've rebuilt FreeChain as a proper Win32 console application, which means it runs natively on Windows all the way up to 64-bit Windows 7 (something the DOS version won't), complete with hastily-drawn icon. In the process the sort-of-abandoned GTK+ port source is now up. I can't even remember what state that's ( Read more... ) -
Your system is low on virtual memory.
03:38 < LionsPhil> The great thing about having no short-term memory any more
is that I can keep looking to the left and being
pleasantly surprised that I have a glass of orange juice.
03:38 < LionsPhil> This has now happened five times for the same glass. -
Argh.
- Motherboard probably not bad. Stick definitely bad. Now waiting for eBuyer testing to confirm so can has moneys back. Possiblygood. Edit: Good grief, they agree. Success.
- Still no viva date. Have now pretty much entirely forgotten PhD claims and all references will be out of date. Can't remember if I have a hardcopy of the thesis somewhere; I think ( Read more... )