Just another filesystem? I don’t think so.. It rather feels like the file system concept reinvented 🙂 Future proof. But probably not ready yet for joe the desktop user. Here is an interesting interview with the devs. In the meantime, I also read that the upcoming new openSolaris project Indiana will be using ZFS..
gimp 2.4
Yes, I’m late 😉
Be sure to check out the changelog walkthrough, otherwise you won’t understand what the fuss is all about 😉
Btw, on windows I had some trouble launching it with the modules. It seems my gimp was using its own supplied gtk runtime while the plugins just took the one in the env path. Long story short: just uninstall the freaking global one, long live data duplication! 😉
lolcats
If you’re in for a good laugh, check in on http://icanhascheezburger.com . The cat pics are the best 🙂
A few of my favorites:
smartd temperature error messages
I have 2 western digital 2500KS hard disks and noticed already some time ago that the smart implementation is not correct when it comes to temperatures. Afaik, it was something like reporting the temp in °F while they claim to report it in °C. This wouldn’t be a problem if they didn’t also define the thresholds in °C. On an operating system like windows, the user never is bothered by this shortcoming as windows simply has no clue about SMART. On linux however, the user is typically notified by mail or desktop popup when a hard drive exceeds its maximum temp. Which is quite annoying if it is a false alarm. 😉
A lot of 3rd party tools exist for windows, and that is how I originally encountered the problem. So it is really a firmware bug.
So I started looking for a way to either
- add some offset to the limits
- disable only temp monitoring on only those disks
How to check your bios version at runtime
If you want to know which bios version or its release date or any other part of information contained in the bios, try these commands:
On a side note, I believe it’s pretty retarded of the motherboard vendors to only supply windows based flashing applications…
Extract audio from FLV tool
Ever wanted to split off the audio from a flash movie? I know you want to. 😉
Until now I simply used graphedit+ffdshow+dump filters but it is quite clumsy to work with. 😉 So today I did another google search, and yep, it’s an all active subject on the web by now. 🙂 It seems there are quite some tools now, but a lot also seem very questionable… Until I found this open source one (always trust that more ;)).
So, without further ado: enjoy Moitah’s tools!
P.S.: as a bonus, you get an avi too 😉
ooxml vs odf
An interesting view on the OOXML controversy.
Next Akademy in Belgium!
Yay! 🙂
Interview with Portal devs
In case you didn’t know yet, I’m quite enthousiastic about Valve‘s upcoming Portal game. Apparently, the team behind this wicked puzzle game is really a group of DigiPen students, hired by Valve immediately after graduation!
Read all about the interesting history of both the team and the game in an interview done by the Planet Halflife guys!