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Dip, Dip, Trip

Posted by muesli in The third place
Monday, February 28. 2005

Yeah, guess I often feel like this little mouse. Need to get some tickets for my London-trip. amaroK 1.2.1 got released today! Something else to say? Not right now. Good night!

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Logitech MX1000

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Sunday, February 27. 2005

I got myself a new mouse today. I always kinda bought the cheapest ones, but today I had enough of those cheap crappy devices and bought the Logitech MX1000. It's a nice - even though really pricy - package, containing the mouse itself (surprise here), a charging-station and a PS/2 adapter.

The mouse is wireless! Finally! If I remember correctly I never really owned a wireless mouse, and now I experience what it feels like for the first time and wonder how I could have worked with a wired model. The one thing that always kept me from buying a wireless one were the batteries. I knew that I wouldn't have replacement batteries, once the first set emptied out. And working on a PC without a mouse? No-ho. Now, there is this charging station and this problem pretty mouch disappeared. Now the only thing left to do: configure all these extra buttons (12 mouse buttons is insane, right?) with cool KDE functions and shortcuts.

Happy hacking,
muesli

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GT4

Posted by muesli in Video Games
Saturday, February 26. 2005

Just a short entry, uhm, and *GULP*:
Gran Turismo 4 Pictures! Just click and look. Oh and drool, of course. Spontaneous errections guaranteed.

No really, this is too amazing. A seven year old console which produces mind-blowing graphics. Congrats Sony, you made my day.

...muesli

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Zzz...

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Friday, February 25. 2005

Ain't it sweet? This is the KDE 3.4 logout dialog eyecandy

What does it tell me? Go to BED, now!
Good idea, I say.
Night!

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Wanna Learn Chatting?

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Friday, February 18. 2005

Finally, Microsoft tells us how we should behave while IRCing:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

Thanks MS!

...muesli

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A Famous Quote

Posted by muesli in KDE
Wednesday, February 16. 2005

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose."

Now guess who said that originally?

Linus Torvalds? Wrong.
Richard Stallman? Wrong.
Muesli? No-ho.

Bill Gates? Just kidding. Oh no, wait. He did. He really did.
Maybe he was developing an opensource OS named Billux back then? Just guessing, though.

...muesli

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OpenSource... Everywhere.

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Thursday, February 10. 2005

For your mobile music: iPod's 4th generation boots up with Linux, now!
Pure Eyecandy: amaroK with projectM
On your desktop: KDE 3,4 beta2
Even on Windows: QT4 for Windows dual-licensed!

...muesli

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Defined tags for this entry: amarok, ipod, kde, opensource, qt4

Delicious!

Posted by muesli in The third place
Saturday, February 5. 2005

It is.

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Bad weather, Bad Sleep

Posted by muesli in The third place
Thursday, February 3. 2005

Couldn't sleep tonight, even though we've planned to go to the convention today. Now the weather really sucks, too, and I don't know if we're still planning to go at all.

Oh besides, it's way too early for me to be awake anyways. Ok, just phoned to see what the situation looks like: we're still going, but later that day, around noon. Maybe I should visit my bed again for another hour or two.

Good morning, errr night.

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amaroK Desktop Script

Posted by muesli in KDE
Thursday, February 3. 2005

Just stumbled over the amaroK Desktop Script on kde-apps.org. Nicely done, cool script

If you're curious: since I didn't have the pyqt/pykde stuff installed on my Debian desktop yet, I had to run "su -c apt-get install pyqt-tools python-kde3 python2.3-kde3" to get this stuff installed. Easy job.

So, now there's always a cool blended coverart of the currently playing album on my desktop. Sweet

...muesli

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Desk

Posted by muesli in The third place
Wednesday, February 2. 2005

Since I had my secondary monitor standing next to me on my desk for months now, without connecting it to my PC, I finally decided to search the cable-extension and DVI-adaptor today. Luckily I found it in one of my boxes! Having a few more pixels and information on my desktop really helps speeding up development. Besides, it's just fun to always have a visualization and amaroK on top of your screen.

Later this evening I will head over to Andz, having a few beer and prolly watching some movie / TV. I might have to hit the sack a bit earlier today, since I'm going to this VOIP convention I mentioned before. Hopefully it's worth it.

Cheers,
muesli

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Mausetot und Rattenscharf

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Wednesday, February 2. 2005

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Crappy

Posted by muesli in The third place
Wednesday, February 2. 2005

First of all, I have to apologize for my last entry. As you might have noticed I was kind of bad-mooded, so that's prolly why I forgot to name Jeanette Biedermann

Well, I guess people shouldn't take everything too seriously and should instead try reading the meaning behind the words. And please: don't tell me, that you wouldn't laugh out loud if you heard that Daniel Kueblboeck died trying to crash another lorry

This evening I spent my time watching crappy reality TV shows ("Die Burg") and reading random blogs. Quite interesting to see how many people started their own blog by now. I remember it being the perfect hobby for geeky, nerdy teens. Seems even 35-year old women feel rather geeky today

Since I've started playing with Asterisk recently and installed our own software PBX here, I've decided to go to a VOIP convention on Thursday. Could be a boring marketing event, could be a rather cool event where technique matters. We'll see.

Btw, amaroK 1.2 beta4 got released! It'll be the final beta before our 1.2 release, so we're kind of in a freeze now.

...muesli

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