When you rip most of your cd collection, you may walk against some trouble with xmms or other music players trying to generate a long playlist of all your music, especially when the music files are located on a network share. In my case, access to this networkshare is pretty slow as well due to the supposedly bad combination of NFS and wireless. Still, you'll want to generate playlists and the easiest way then is to simply load an existing m3u file.
zeroK came to the rescue for me. It's quite easy to create those files on linux. You need a single, simple command:
find /mp3 -type f > playlist.m3u
Of course, you need to replace /mp3 with the path to your mp3's. But then you're done. A great and easy way to generate a playlist file of your music.
posted on February 25, 2005 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Online Poker. A topic that is mostly something that results with furious responses from website owners and especially webloggers. But it's time to strike back. Ozh has the solution. Or well, maybe not really the solution, but definately a nice way to strike back.
And so, I write a post about Online Poker. Let's get Wikipedia the google rank that it deserves, and thus beat the comment/trackback/referrer spammers on their own territory
To add a small extra to it, I've added rel="tag" to the links to Wikipedia, so that Technorati might also pick up on this.
posted on February 23, 2005 - 6 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Netscape has literally died a thousand deaths already. And for some reason, everytime the browser is given up on, afterwards they come up with a new version again. And again. Soon, there will be a beta of Netscape 8. And boy, check out the screenshot to see how ugly as hell this new version will be. It's based on Firefox. Well, after seeing this screenshot, I definately am impressed by the designers at Netscape. Nobody has been able to skin Firefox *this* ugly so far
posted on February 18, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
For a while already I've been working hard together with some other people to develop a new open source CMS. Yes, yet another CMS. I've tried a lot of software already, but nothing suited my needs. Well, you can now see the results of that hard work. Because the first beta release it now available. Download it here. A bit of documentation can be found here. And if you find any bugs, please report them here.
The main focus for us for the coming time will be fixing reported bugs and documenting the system. So in the near future, everything will hopefully make some more sense.
Anyway, come by, download, and start testing it!
And for those who wonder: yes, we WILL be getting a Real DesignTM, but we probably won't be making that public until the release of 1.0 stable.
posted on February 16, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Every once in a while, something really funny happens regarding to spam. Today, I got a funny SPAM mail. I have my Thunderbird configured to show plaintext mail if possible. So today I get an e-mail from someone I don't know with the following text:
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. -- Frank Sinatra
I am quite puzzled, but after inspecting the source of the message, I find that it is simply porn SPAM in the HTML part of the message. They just entered a random quote into the plaintext part of the message, probably in the hopes of that way not being stopped by SPAM filters. Thunderbird's SPAM filter indeed didn't catch it as SPAM. And it brought a smile to my face, getting an e-mail like this.
posted on February 16, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
As some of you may know, I'm slightly... uhm... geeky, in my hobbies. Aside from scripting php (which is also my work), I also collect Transformers. Yesterday, I re-organized my collection a bit and decided to also make some pictures. Here are some.
posted on February 14, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Interesting. A quite extensive browser speed test for browsers in Linux, Mac and Windows. Very good to see the different browsers put next to eachother. It's not an official test, it's not a scientific test, but a test by someone who wanted to test the speed of the different browsers for several aspects. Which actually leads me to believe in it's results.
posted on February 12, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
The 10 (or so) Commandments of Web Design
SUNNYVALE, CA (REUTERS) -- A recently located makeshift 'instruction manual', has been located under the backseat of Tim Berners-Lee's car. The 'manual', a short treatise on web design principles, was scrawled on a series of old Denny's napkins and has revealed the lost 10 Commandments of Web Design - now made public, exclusively at CoolHomepages.com!
posted on February 10, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg, a.k.a. i-marco, has written an open letter to the people at Google. Topic of the open letter is his, and with him most bloggers', frustration about comment spam, trackback spam and referrer spam. In his letter, he makes some good points about comment spam and the importance of Google in this. Though the nofollow attribute is a nice addition, in the long run it won't make a difference, because by far not all weblogs will be secured with this tool.
I definately agree with marco's points, and I sincerely hope that the Google crew will respond to this open letter. I hope a discussion will be started here about how to stop comment spam, with the most important party in the whole comment spam, Google, openly joining this discussion. After all, Google *is* the main reason for comment spam to happen.
posted on February 9, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Yesterday, I received an e-mail from a client. Some of the text on their website, that was editted with a rich-text textarea editor, had gotten a different font layout as the rest of the site. Of course, this was not what was supposed to happen. Cause of this, I soon found out, was some markup that didn't get filtered by the "Word HTML filter" I built in, since this client pastes a lot of their website text into the site from Word. And so I needed to find out how to overrule style attributes in these Word-generated tags. Thanks to zeroK I found out about the !important rule in CSS. And so, by adding the following CSS to the site's header:
* { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; }
I overruled the font-family style attribute added by Word. Now, all text in the site is always the same font-family, as it was meant to be.
posted on February 8, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Some of you may know this, and some of you may not. But across Europe, a highly irritating song is high in the charts and being played on radio almost constantly. It's a song about a Crocodile. It's horrible.
But now we can finally strike back!
posted on February 7, 2005 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
TinyMCE, or Tiny Moxie Code Editor, is a WYSIWYG textarea replacement written in Javascript. I am actually very impressed with it. After using HTMLArea and a few others in the past which never seemed to work exactly right in Firefox, it seems this one does pull it off. Judging from the Compatibility Chart, their system works in most of the good browsers of today.
I've just integrated it into the management interface of my CMS simply by copying over the js files to the CMS directory and 6 lines of code! It is very easy to configure the editor using simple parameters in the init function of the code. Very, very good.
posted on February 4, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
I am very sorry to have to cancel my forthcoming tour in the United States. I have decided to cancel further to what I consider to be completely unreasonable demands from the US Embassy in France in order to renew my working visa.
In order to obtain this new visa, the rules have once again changed since November 2004 and I would now have to not only fill in an exceedingly probing application form, but also be interviewed by a member of the Embassy staff, and provide proof of ownership of my house, details of my bank account, my mobile phone records, personal information on all my family members and more. I consider these demands to be a complete violation of my privacy and my civil liberties and I refuse to comply.
I am horrified by these new regulations and feel really sad that this is what some call freedom and democracy.
It has now become almost impossible for an artist to come and perform in the United States. And until this new legislation changes I will unfortunately refuse to comply with this nonsense.
Thank you for your understanding.
Laurent Garnier
Isn't it amazing that the US is so full of bullshit that a well-known techno artist can't even get into the US anymore without providing the most useless of private information to the US government?
posted on February 3, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Online Music World, which was only a discussion forum so far, has now added a weblog to it's site. On the weblog, a team of representatives from the online and independent music scene will be writing about, well, the independent and online music scene.
The design is not finished yet, but the first post is now there. More will follow.
posted on February 1, 2005 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Lately, I've been looking a bit more into Technorati and it's system. Quite impressive, and very interesting. I already added a technorati link to my dutch weblog but hadn't done that here yet. So just now I've added the Technorati link here as well.
Now, I'm already planning to write a plugin for Nucleus to include Technorati Tags in that system, but I guess it would be good to also have an extension for Pivot. I don't think the extension system is not really documented yet.
posted on February 1, 2005 - 2 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
To add a small extra to it, I've added rel="tag" to the links to Wikipedia, so that Technorati might also pick up on this.
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