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The best linux media player: qmmp

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I had a lot of issues trying to settle on a good media player. Here’s what I looked at and why I settled on qmmp.

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Google “go”

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Had a brief look at this last night, and hacked together a simple telnet talker. Might be of interest to someone. Go is interesting. I like types, how you can create funcs specific to those types, interfaces, channels are especially cool as are goroutines. I think it has a lot of promise, and I’ll be keeping [...]

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Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 on Asus Eee PC 1005HA (and 1005HA-H)

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Hopefully this will help people out there, trying to get wifi working on their Eee PC. I bought a 1005HA-H the other day, and its a great machine, but Ubuntu has some issues on it.

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Building python 2.6.2 for solaris 9 using Sun Studio 12

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I recently wanted a 64bit threaded natively compiled version of python 2.6.2. It needed to run on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 machines, and I didn’t want any dependencies on any other GNU stuff. Basically, a package that I could throw onto any of my Solaris Sparc machines and have it work. I had a lot [...]

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Why you don’t need a 64bit kernel

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So, we have a bunch of people popping into #apple right now, asking how they can get a 64bit kernel in Snow Leopard. Really, you don’t need one, and here’s why – straight from the Apple documentation:

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