Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonSound Juicer "Drop The Empty Pursuit Of Props" 2.21.92computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.21.92http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.21.92Sound Juicer "Drop The Empty Pursuit Of Props" 2.21.92 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com , or from ... Sound Juicer "Drop The Empty Pursuit Of Props" 2.21.92 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Just small fixes now:

  • Don't loop if the selected music directory doesn't exist (Matthew Martin)
  • When editing the album artist, unset the sortable artist name
  • Remove deprecated calls in BaconVolume (Michael Terry)
]]>/computers/sound-juicer2008-02-26T15:36:13ZSometimes I Worrylife/worry-2008-02-26-14-00http://www.burtonini.com/blog/life/worry-2008-02-26-14-00mallum: its mental mental chicken oriental NP: Untrue , Burial mallum: its mental mental chicken oriental

NP: Untrue, Burial

]]>/life2008-02-26T14:00:00ZBad Idea (#4211)life/bad-idea-2008-02-20-11-50http://www.burtonini.com/blog/life/bad-idea-2008-02-20-11-50Just seen on Freecycle: OFFERED: 7 Blank Dual Layer DVD+R was using them for xbox 360 games however found they ... Just seen on Freecycle:

OFFERED: 7 Blank Dual Layer DVD+R

was using them for xbox 360 games however found they failed alot. ideal for home movies or backing up data.

]]>/life2008-02-20T11:50:00ZCan I Get A Replicator?computers/sound-juicer/sj-2008-02-20-10-30http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2008-02-20-10-30There is a Sound Juicer bug which has been reported in 2.20 and 2.21, where changing the album artist name ... There is a Sound Juicer bug which has been reported in 2.20 and 2.21, where changing the album artist name doesn't change the name that is used when creating directories (link to bug). Thinking about the code this is very strange, and I can't replicate it myself, so I have to ask the Planets. Has anyone else seen this, or can they replicate this?

NP: Workmen digging up my road the bastards, Thames Water (photo)

]]>/computers/sound-juicer2008-02-20T10:30:00ZDear InterWeb...computers/menu-2008-02-19-21-55http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/menu-2008-02-19-21-55Mock The Week is about to start, so I'll be quick. Can I ellipsize a GtkMenuItem? It's easy to make ... Mock The Week is about to start, so I'll be quick. Can I ellipsize a GtkMenuItem? It's easy to make Tasks have very long menu items, which end up being too big for the screen. I'd like to get the menu items truncated so that the menu will fit on the screen, or something. I guess I'll have to truncate the string manually if there is no magic way of doing it directly in the menu, but that really is a fallback plan.

]]>/computers2008-02-19T21:55:00ZCheapo MP3 Playercomputers/mp3-2008-02-19-15-16http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/mp3-2008-02-19-15-16Today I ordered what is almost the cheapest MP3 player I could find, and is certainly the cheapest I could ... Today I ordered what is almost the cheapest MP3 player I could find, and is certainly the cheapest I could find which wouldn't fall off when jogging (as much as I love my black iPod Classic, it's not really suitable for jogging). I really hope that it reads MP3 files from a FAT partition and uses USB Storage...

NP: Mishaps Happening, Quantic

]]>/computers2008-02-19T15:16:00ZDBus-using Library Designcomputers/dbus-2008-02-18-15-22http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/dbus-2008-02-18-15-22As a rule of thumb, when writing a library which uses DBus please always make asynchronous DBus method calls. You ... As a rule of thumb, when writing a library which uses DBus please always make asynchronous DBus method calls. You never know when someone will write a system using your library which, via a series of plugins, ends up calling itself. A single main loop and blocking DBus calls are not a great combination, and leads to lots of frustration.

Yes, libnotify, I'm looking at you.

NP: Out of Season, Beth Gibbons

]]>/computers2008-02-18T15:22:00ZSound Juicer "Spent All Night Just Watching You" 2.21.91computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.21.91http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.21.91Sound Juicer "Spent All Night Just Watching You" 2.21.91 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com , or from ... Sound Juicer "Spent All Night Just Watching You" 2.21.91 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. A few features, before we hit the deep freeze.

  • Write extracted audio to a temporary file and then rename (Matthew Martin)
  • Disable the Eject button if the drive cannot eject (David Meikle)
]]>/computers/sound-juicer2008-02-14T09:28:41ZPimlico for N810computers/pimlico-2008-02-05-20-10http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/pimlico-2008-02-05-20-10I finally got around to hacking Evolution Data Server to build without the addressbook, and still work. This isn't hard ... I finally got around to hacking Evolution Data Server to build without the addressbook, and still work. This isn't hard work, its just very dull: I must have rebuild EDS from scratch at least twenty times this evening.

The good news is that there are now Contacts, Dates and Tasks packages for Chinook, also known as ITOS 2008, also known as the software on the N800 and N810. Sorry it took so long!

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