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h.264 hardware decoding!

Hallelujah! God [Allah/Budha/FSM] be praised! Something has happened that I’d completely given up hope on. A working, released and effective h.264 hardware decoding solution for linux has been let loose, from the most unlikely of sources, nVidia. OK, so maybe they’re not the most unlikely of sources, that’d be someone like Motorola or something, but given their recent […]

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Election season

So it seems that there’s quite the election ‘fever’ (yay sportsfans!) going around at the moment. Obviously the US election has had the bulk of the limelight and I have to admit to having followed it far too closely since late last year (Along with my election buddy, Soporific Frog. Thanks for the memories). Somewhat less grand (yet […]

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Ambition

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If […]

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random book content

As suggested by Stewart Smith: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Result: “The first step is achieved through effective marketing” from Systems […]

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Yet another mandatory clean feed post

So, yes, the mandatory clean feed has been generating a lot of noise lately and the Federal Member Email/Letter bomb has been dropped. In this spirit, I felt I might as well contribute an entry with the letter I sent of to my local member (Ballarat – Ms Catherine King), last week: Ms King, I am writing to […]

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Quick update

After my post yesterday about the ‘rallyduino’ a few people emailed me asking for the source, so I threw everything together quickly into a Google Code hosted project. I did want to get it into SVN anyway as having only local copies was starting to get me nervous. The project page can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/rallyduino/ Or to […]

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Rallyduino?

[Update: This system is now complete and working. See details at http://noisymime.org/blog/2009/05/rallyduino-lives/] So recently I’ve started playing slightly more seriously with my Arduino, I’ve even gone so far as having a plan on what the hell to do with it. For some time I’ve wanted to try my hand at putting together a homemade Rally computer and the […]

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Gloss 0.1!

I know I’ve been promising to do another screencast, specifically showing the music player in Gloss, but I’m afraid it isn’t done. What is done however is Gloss 0.1, including a new screencast showing all its features! Whilst being very much a developer / testing release, it is moderately stable and works ‘out of the box’ on multiple […]

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Wireless woes

For a long time, one thing that has always solicited gasps from my technological friends is that I run my home wifi connection without any encryption or MAC blocking. It is free for anyone within range to use without my permission and, in most instances, I won’t even be aware it’s happened. I do this for a number […]

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Network storage – The ugly side

I’ve read a few blogs posts recently regarding consumer NAS devices, specifically linux based ones (See entries from Peter Hardy and Matt Bottrell) and, for the most part, these have been fairly positive. So as a warning to others, I thought I’d pop up my experience. A few weeks back I got a call from my Dad saying […]

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