What's new, pussycat...

Here I am, sitting on the train, again, trying to think about finally using the status bar in Sound Juicer. But I'm tired and I hurt: my back is disagreeing with sitting down after just having got up, and a few days ago I managed to bruise the tendons in my right hand. Oh joy.

Yesterday I totally rewrote sj-extracting., the cause of many bugs in Sound Juicer. I'll test and commit it today (after resisting the urge to commit without testing last night), and will then do a new release, which will truly rule, of course.

A few days ago Helix released the first beta of their media player. I have fond memories of Bastien building their SDK on this iBook, muttering away, before cursing and taking his iBook to the Helix stand to poke them about the latest stupidity he found. There were plans to try and get Helix to use Totem as a front end for their player, as it has a pluggable backend (currently it can use Xine or GStreamer) and a totally sweet interface, but they didn't in the end. Turns out they've written a poor Totem clone, really. Totem doesn't have to start [image] worrying [image] yet [image].

In Debian news, we've managed to get GNOME 2.2 into testing and GNOME 2.4 into unstable, a feat which only took a week. Many thanks to Sebastien Bacher who did most of the initial work!

09:16 Friday, 24 Oct 2003 [#] [computers] (1 comments)

New Amplifier

Yesterday I got my new Cambridge Audio A500 amplifier plugged in, wired up, and pumping. I even bought it some chunky speaker cable as a "welcome to your new home" present... It seems a lot happier than my old NADs, which had too much power for the size of my room (they volume has never gone above 1/3) and lead to some of the detail being lost. Oh, and they were broken too. Anyone who still wants my old NADs (1000 pre-amp, 2100 power-amp), mail me, for £30 they are yours.

I'm going to miss saying "look at the size of my NADs".

08:39 Friday, 24 Oct 2003 [#] [life] (2 comments)