As a 26 year old black man in America that has never been arrested, I have got to be in the clear of some dumb shit that could happen. I’m too old to pick up a new drug habit, and too old for petty crime. Happy birthday to me. I found a plugin to ichat that makes it much more usable especially in regards to log viewing. Its called chax.
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ID3 Tags, and album artwork with iTunes.
I am using iTunes more often now. I like the album art view, it gives me the feeling of flicking through my old mans record collection. The only thing that annoys me is how the automatic album art retrieval works. It uses the id3 tags, particularly the album to make a match based on the albums in iTunes extensive library. I have found this to be about 60% effective. I was able to get about 90% of album art automatically input into itunes using the following procedure and software. I will describe them first. iEatBrainz (Acoustic Music Tagger) Uses MusicBrainz (musicbrainz.org) to fix your mp3 and aac tags in iTunes after they’ve been ripped using acoustic matchings. Album art thingy runs in the background, downloading artwork and lyrics for your iTunes collection and saving them into iTunes automatically.
- Download and install ieatbrainz.
- Download and install album art thingy.
- Run ieatbrainz against the songs lacking in id3 tags.
- Start album art thingy, then start itunes.
- 1st select all of your songs and have itunes try automatically.
- For those stragglers, play them and album art thingy should do it.
- Between the two sources if nothing is still found, chances are the id3 tag is wrong. You can edit them via iTunes.
Got fired. Moved on. Made a widget.
I got fired. It was painless; like a girlfriend that has gotten fat breaking up with you just before you started gnawing your arm off to get away. Thats life. I made a sample widget using dashcode that basically just pulls the rss feed from slashdot. Its big as hell, and here it is. Enjoy. Oh, and I apparently have a family history of high cholesterol so I am scheduling daily visits to the gym. I may as well get in fantastic shape with all this newfound free time. ** No more cell phone, thank god. ** I feel like I just got a new laptop.
I need to remember to fix all of my id3 tags
I can use ieatbrainz or find a linux eq.
After much review…
I still want an iphone. I want one with sprint/netxtel/clearwire/anydamnbody wimax, and I damn sure had better be able to use it as a bluetooth modem with my mbpro. Oh and one more thing I need a terminal application so I can ssh into things and fix/break them. In fact I would imagine anyone in the enterprise needs that. Well, that and a vnc/citrix/windows terminal services/ remote desktop client. What do you say apple. Hook a brotha up.
I am using rsync.net for backups now.
I was using the included backup application that came with OS X, and their online .mac backup solution, but now that my .mac subscription is dead and done, I have decided to go with rsync.net for those few files that I absolutely cannot lose. For just under $6 US a month I get 3 GB of offsite storage that I can access via any of the ssh flavors (ssh/scp/sftp), rsync, or my personal favorite rsync over ssh. It was really easy. After I signed up I just put my public key up, then ran something like…
rsync -azvrpg –progress -e ssh backup [email protected]:/username/dir
This basically says sync the directory named backup on this machine with a directory of the same name inside of /username/dir on the machine myserver.rsync.net, and oh yeah use the lovely encryption that ssh affords us. I’ll probably make a cron to do this for me once a day/week tomorrow.
Gabe makes an ass of himself… again.
I can post from within firefox; Nice.
I found a firefox addon called Deepest Sender that allows me to post directly to my wordpress installation. This is a test post.
Akimbo STB -> MythTV Frontend Part 1
This project is done. I got one on ebay and opened her up. I removed the hard drive, took it to another machine, the immediatly blew out the existing xp embedded install and applications with cfdisk. After I finished a fedora core 6 install on the drive I re installed it into the akimbo case. I had to edit /etc/fstab to fix some paths but afterward it boots.
FC5 -> FC6
I am starting the upgrade from fedora core 5, to fedora core 6 tonight. We’ll see how this goes. Basically I ran…