Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I've heard about The Tale of Genji, and thought I might like to read it. However, there are a daunting number of translations available! They're enumerated in the Wikipedia article.
Here's my rough summary:
0) Murasaki Shikibu - the original Japanese author.
1) Kencho Suematsu - first translation, considered ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
It had been awhile since I'd exported a TypeLib, so I had forgotten how! The world has moved on to .Net and its "tlxexp.exe" tool, which is for .Net/CLR assemblies only.
1) Download OLEVIEW.EXE the OLE/COM Object Viewer
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
I remember these incessant Big Red television ads from my childhood:
"no little cinnamon gum freshens breath longer than Big Red"
To this day, I want to get my hands on that colorful, little, cinnamon gum! My mouth literally waters at the thought of it.
Besides, who wants to chew a gum ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
The XBox 360 can play back xvid/divx + AC-3 (or AAC), and H.264/x264 + AAC. I've noticed a distinct difference in audio quality between AC-3 and AAC, at both the default 128kbps and forced 192kbps AAC (--aencoder aac --arate 48 --ab 192).
This is easily demonstrated by listening to the ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
uShare, a GeeXBox project, is a media server which is compatible with the new XBox 360 "Spring Update" media player capability. Running uShare on a desktop seems straightforward, but getting it working on such a lightweight machine as the TeraStation Live is a bit more difficult, particularly if you're ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
I installed the Microsoft Spring '07 Update, allowing the XBox 360 to play videos encoded as MPEG-4 Part 2 (xvid/divx) and H.264/x264. After fumbling around for countless hours, I found handbrake settings that work with the XBox 360.
Since all the terms thrown around become confusing (H.264, x264, xvid, divx, ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Trying to get autofs working on Ubuntu, I found that everything worked except that I could never actually get at the folder contents. Instead, I would get an infinitely recursive set of empty folders:
jeff@ubuntu:~$ ls /smb/myserver/
backup/ info/ media/ pictures/ share/
jeff@ubuntu:~$ ls /smb/myserver/media
backup/ info/ ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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