From bc1b11efbe3b29ab606a366a19317c893a48e828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Barber
I made a conscious choice quite a while ago to encode all of my music in Ogg Vorbis format, which has some advantages over MP3. Better quality at the same bitrates, sample granularity for perfect gapless playback, and open source so I know I can always play my music on any platform (at least that's the idea). The iPod will not play this format, rendering it pretty useless to me. And yes, I've seen the iPod Linux project!
"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry"- + It was while walking to the shop this lunch time that I came to the realisation that we all really are in a big damn hurry all the time. I myself was striding quickly in order that I had enough time to make my sandwich and get back to work. The amount I do in a week is really quite scary (besides going to work and sleeping), and I know I'm not the only one. What is it about our society these days that makes us fill all our available time, leaving none for the important things like just sitting, and contemplating life? I personally can't remember the last time I just had a moment to sit and look at the waves in the sea, or watch the sun go down, and I miss it. diff --git a/content/blog/2005-04-08-sony-ericsson-k750i/index.md b/content/blog/2005-04-08-sony-ericsson-k750i/index.md index c030e4ea..018d13c2 100644 --- a/content/blog/2005-04-08-sony-ericsson-k750i/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2005-04-08-sony-ericsson-k750i/index.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ layout: post I like my Sony Ericsson T630, but, as I'm due for an upgrade, I've been scouting round to see what I can get instead. - + After a brief flirt with the idea of an S700i, I noticed that Sony Ericsson have announced a new model that fits my ideals much better. I was never keen on the idea of having a phone with moving parts, especially ones that involve some kind of electrical connection. I remember too well the fiasco with the Nokia 7110 and it's wholly unreliable sliding mechanism. diff --git a/content/blog/2005-04-22-the-media-box-will-live/index.md b/content/blog/2005-04-22-the-media-box-will-live/index.md index 029cf660..7513f03b 100644 --- a/content/blog/2005-04-22-the-media-box-will-live/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2005-04-22-the-media-box-will-live/index.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ layout: post Yay! The parts have turned up for my media box. I'm building a machine to sit next to the TV and Hi-Fi, solely to store and play music and video. At some point I'll add a Digital TV card so the machine can do TiVo like duties for us. - + Anyway, here's what I ordered:
I decided a week ago, while in B&Q, to add a PCI Wireless network card to my main PC. I was originally planning to run cables from the corner of the lounge where the router is located, to the back bedroom where the computers are situated.
- The card I bought from B&Q was a TrendNet card. Fairly generic, based on a Ti TNET chipset. It took me about an hour to get it connected to my network (the same network that took me mere seconds to connect to from my Powerbook) and once it was connected, browsing the Internet became an almost nostalgic experience. Nostalgic because the last time I remember it being that slow was when I used a dial up modem! Even accessing the admin interface on the router was slow!
+ The card I bought from B&Q was a TrendNet card. Fairly generic, based on a Ti TNET chipset. It took me about an hour to get it connected to my network (the same network that took me mere seconds to connect to from my Powerbook) and once it was connected, browsing the Internet became an almost nostalgic experience. Nostalgic because the last time I remember it being that slow was when I used a dial up modem! Even accessing the admin interface on the router was slow!
So I decided to pack that one back in it's box and return it, and promptly ordered a Netgear WG311T from Amazon.co.uk. 'Can't go wrong with a Netgear' I thought. Oh, how wrong could I be...
diff --git a/content/blog/2006-07-10-the-media-box/index.md b/content/blog/2006-07-10-the-media-box/index.md
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Spot the difference? Look carefully...
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There's *two* spaces between `-march=i686` and `-msse`, and again between `-mfpmath=sse` and `-pipe` and these cause the compile process to think that the build environment has changed somewhere down the line. Stupid bloody CFLAGS parser.
diff --git a/content/blog/2006-12-19-basics-of-linux-server-administration-part-1/index.md b/content/blog/2006-12-19-basics-of-linux-server-administration-part-1/index.md
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In this article I'm going to cover disk space.
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The Problem
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diff --git a/content/blog/2007-08-24-diary-of-an-amateur-mixer-part-2/index.md b/content/blog/2007-08-24-diary-of-an-amateur-mixer-part-2/index.md
index cbceb668..3ebf24b3 100644
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For part 2 of my diary I thought it would be a good idea to give a run down of my setup. It's all under the fold though so if you're not interested don't click ;). Plugin list next time...
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I'm using a custom built PC (one of my many talents!) with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core CPU and 2gb RAM. This gives me plenty of headroom for plugins, which is nice :).
diff --git a/content/blog/2007-08-29-diary-of-an-amateur-mixer-part-3/index.md b/content/blog/2007-08-29-diary-of-an-amateur-mixer-part-3/index.md
index 85e4f82c..85815be8 100644
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And finally... under the fold you'll find a list of all the plugins I've used so far, not including any of Reapers built in ones.
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* SSL Listen Mic Compressor
* PSP SpringVerb (PSPaudioware.com)
diff --git a/content/blog/2007-09-04-diary-of-an-amateur-mixer-part-4/index.md b/content/blog/2007-09-04-diary-of-an-amateur-mixer-part-4/index.md
index 02cb046d..4167c41f 100644
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Updated plugin list under the fold.
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* SSL Listen Mic Compressor
* PSP SpringVerb (PSPaudioware.com)
diff --git a/content/blog/2010-06-06-postgresql-php-on-snow-leopard/index.md b/content/blog/2010-06-06-postgresql-php-on-snow-leopard/index.md
index 11ffe1fc..94dfc8bd 100644
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I recently had to install PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard with PHP support for development. It took some fiddling and a re-install when I screwed up a dependency but I eventually managed to do it! I thought I'd document the process here for anybody else in the same boat.
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My first approach was to install PostgreSQL using the one click installer from EnterpriseDB and recompiling PHP from scratch, but I scrapped that in favour of installing it via Homebrew, and only compiling the necessary PHP extensions.
diff --git a/content/blog/2010-06-30-iphone-4/index.md b/content/blog/2010-06-30-iphone-4/index.md
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So on Thursday 24th June I decided to go and join the queue for the iPhone 4. Thankfully I was early enough and, after waiting for about 3 and a half hours they finally let me into the o2 shop to buy one.
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This being my first ever iPhone I didn't really know what to expect. I've played with earlier models that belong to friends but it's not quite the same when you can't fully explore it. All I knew was that I wanted one.
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Well, I've had the iPhone 4 for about 3 weeks now, so I can write a bit more about my first impressions with it.
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There's lots of nice little touches everywhere in the OS. I keep discovering little shortcuts and ways of doing things. Nothing seems to be too well hidden to find it yourself. For example, I like the way the calculator changes to the scientific layout when the iPhone is landscape oriented. It's all these little things that make using the device such a joy.
diff --git a/content/blog/2010-07-26-apple-in-ear-headphones/index.md b/content/blog/2010-07-26-apple-in-ear-headphones/index.md
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One of my favourite albums is Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood". I wore out the cassette tape (remember them?) listening to it and I knew the album inside out. When I first listened to it on CD I noticed things I hadn't heard before, particularly the singers wail as the guitar solo started, so I had to go back and listen to the tape again to see if it was there which, of course, it was.
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Since upgrading from my trusty Sennheiser CX400's to the Apple In-Ear's I've heard things that I've never noticed before. The faint echo of Imogen Heap's voice in "Hide and Seek". The tail of the vocal delay in Def Leppard's "All I Want is Everything". It's weird, but in a good way. They're bringing out details that seemed buried before.
diff --git a/content/blog/2011-04-05-using-git-for-deployment/index.md b/content/blog/2011-04-05-using-git-for-deployment/index.md
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For the purposes of this guide I'm going to assume that you have your website live already, and that it is not already in a Git repository. If your situation is different you will have to adapt the steps accordingly.
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### Setting up the server
diff --git a/content/blog/2013-03-17-moving-away-from-google/index.md b/content/blog/2013-03-17-moving-away-from-google/index.md
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In light of Google's recent announcement that they will be [shuttering Reader (among other things)](http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html) I've decided that it's time to move away from Gmail and reduce my reliance on any services provided by Google.
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In light of this the first step has been to start moving things over to my own domain, hosted currently on Google Apps for Domains. This gives me the portability I'll need to move to a different email provider.
diff --git a/content/blog/2013-11-09-an-update/index.md b/content/blog/2013-11-09-an-update/index.md
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It's been quite a while now since I last posted, and much has happened over the last 12 months. We've moved to a new city and started new jobs.
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I've been working for a Ruby on Rails consultancy in London called [New Bamboo](http://www.new-bamboo.co.uk) for nearly 12 months now, and it's been excellent. The people I work with are awesome and I'm learning new things every day. I'm also finding opportunities to teach others which is great, and I fully intend to do more of it.
diff --git a/content/blog/2014-02-08-zx81/index.md b/content/blog/2014-02-08-zx81/index.md
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With the 30th anniversary of the Mac just gone by I thought it would be nice (and a little self indulgant!) to write about some of the computers I've owned in the past. I use Mac's almost exclusively now but it wasn't always the case.
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About the same time as Steve Jobs was wowing the crowds with the launch of the first Mac I had one of these bad boys. The Sinclair ZX81 was the successor to the ZX80 and was designed first and foremost to be low cost (costing £69.95 fully assembled or £49.95 in kit form). It had just 1Kb of RAM, no sound capabilities and low resolution monochrome graphics. The machine could not run at full speed and also maintain the display so it would flicker every time you pressed a key or the machine did a calculation. You could switch it to 'SLOW' mode which would make the computer concentrate on maintaining the display at the expense of slowing the running program down. Despite all these limitations the ZX81 was very successful and sold over 1.5 million units.
diff --git a/content/blog/2014-04-29-zx-spectrum-plus-2/index.md b/content/blog/2014-04-29-zx-spectrum-plus-2/index.md
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The second computer to ever enter my life was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2. This machine had colour, 3 channel sound and a built in tape deck. I was in love!
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The ZX Spectrum was the successor the popular ZX81 and was first released in 1982. The first model had 16Kb or 48Kb of RAM and a simple beeper for sound. It came with the rubber key membrane keyboard that made it famous. It was better than the keyboard on the ZX81 but still not great.
diff --git a/content/blog/2016-08-10-the-complete-guide-to-optimising-web-images/index.md b/content/blog/2016-08-10-the-complete-guide-to-optimising-web-images/index.md
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Whatever the speed of the connection it's worth optimising your images as [visitors are far more likely to abandon your site if it takes more than a few seconds to load](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-response-times/) and search engines will rank your site higher if it loads quickly. It's also worth remembering that even fast broadband connections often have data caps.
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### Size
diff --git a/content/blog/2018-01-21-building-a-keyboard/index.md b/content/blog/2018-01-21-building-a-keyboard/index.md
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one here. It would also give me the opportunity to try something a bit
different.
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Since I bought my first mechanical keyboard the hobby has exploded, with many
options available. The problem I started to notice is that it was possible to
diff --git a/content/blog/2018-08-10-chess-and-recursion-part-1/index.md b/content/blog/2018-08-10-chess-and-recursion-part-1/index.md
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the trickiest and most fun parts of the project so far has been generating all
the possible moves for a player to make.
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### The board