Lenny is good. Rock solid, just like the name ‘Stable’ promises.
But it wasn’t enough. So I updated to Squeeze.
That wasn’t enough. Went up to Sid. These guides helped.
So now I’m running the latest and would-be-greatest. Going to run a server with it.
Yes, I’m insane.
The people who develop suPHP are assholes for not providing further documentation than what they’ve got on their site.
On Debian/Ubuntu, the packagers are assholes for not providing a sane configuration. The whole point of suPHP is to use the paranoid setting.
The people who develop PHP as a language are assholes for not getting their head out of their asses, considering security an afterthought.
Should you need to install it onto a Debian/Ubuntu system, be prepared to devote 48+ hours to getting it up and running properly, specially if you install PHP applications using APT.
Just seen on twitter
_Loops: A los 31 años, Bill Gates hizo su primer billón de dólares…si, si, mucha lana… pero a cuantas viejas se cogió para ese entonces?
enosis: @Loops A muchas. Pagando, pero a muchas.
Over the past months I’ve realized I need an active invitation in order to enjoy being at a bar, pub, disco or house. If I arrive at a place and find someone friendly there that counts as an invitation too; the other person will usually provide a pathway to enjoyment.
I got this theory since I first read the Artemis Fowl series. It’s a stretch, yes, but I’ve realized it applies well to my nights out.
See that volume control button at the top right corner? Reason enough not to use it. All civilized music software should let you control volume without having to click anything at all. Hell, even iTunes does it and we know many people aren’t fond of it.
The fact it’s using Mono doesn’t really help its case either. The decision by the developers to also encompass video libraries makes me thing it’s trying to do everything but does nothing well.
Did not bother installing it.
Used version 1.2.0, which is the one currently being offered as stable. The application itself takes some extra work to get it going since it’s a XUL application. There are pre-built Ubuntu packages which you don’t get from the developers themselves, but rather from third parties who offer them. This means you have to trust these packagers when performing the installation.
The program doesn’t integrate into the desktop environment at all either. Sure, you can install “feathers” (skins) on it, but if you like a unified look across all your applications you’re out of luck. It can’t be that hard to use system bindings, surely.
Any playlists imported into it need to be coded in ANSI (ISO-8859-15). If you try to import anything in UTF-8 you will get lots and lots of ghost songs in the database. In my case I ended up with 4K ghost songs in a library of 13.4K songs. All these songs would have to be rated again. Screw that.
Now, here’s the kicker. It likes to eat RAM like a legislator takes money out of the public treasury, often going into the hundreds of megabytes of RAM usage.
Gotta keep looking for a decent music player. There’s gotta be something comparable to Winamp at the very least.
After my update to Karmic Koala I found myself in need of a new music player, specially after using the godsforsaken mess that is Amarok 2. In my search for a new music player for Linux I happened to find Exaile. It describes itself thusly:
Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players including iPods, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.
It takes a lot of inspiration from Amarok 1.4 in its layout and design choices and since it’s written in GTK you don’t have to install any KDE dependencies.
Even though it’s up to version 3.0.2 at the time of this writing, it should be considered alpha software. Beta at the most:
On the plus side, the developers offer a repository for it, so you don’t have to jump through hoops like you do when you want to use SongBird.
After attempting to use it for a couple of days, I’ve decided it’s not for me. Hopefully I’ll get SongBird working without too many problems.
All in all, a good update, with only a few issues here and here. Except for sound. Dear gods, the more I deal with the piece of screwmotherfucking shit that is PulseAudio, the more I hate it. Perhaps PulseAudio isn’t the one to blame, but Canonical’s implementation of it certainly sucks zebra donkey’s balls.
I am seriously contemplating migrating over to Debian just to avoid having to fight my way to a decent system configuration. This is something that happens every single release.
Seriously, they fucking nerfed volume controls this time around. There is only a single control for Master this time around. You say you want more controls? You’re SOL. You’ll have to use good ol’ alsamixer to set volumes for Master, PCM, headphones, etc, separately.
So much for ease of use.
I don’t really have a passion for anything these times. Days pass in a blur, punctuated by brief periods of fleeting happiness occurring only on the weekends.
I write this on a calafia, feeling the cool wind move my hair across my closed eyes. When I open them everything has a bluish tint to it and hair strands untangle themselves from eyelashes. Yet I don’t feel depressed.
It probably has to do with a thoroughly unsatisfying end to a good weekend; or the fact I didn’t get my morning coffee.
No matter how many times I try, it is likely I will never be able to go to sleep before 00:00 if I’m running on eight hours of sleep.
On occasion I have been able to… usually after days (and nights) where I haven’t slept, if at all.
The proof is in this writing. Made it at 01:00.
This will be my place on the internet while I get something going for myself. Thing is… I’ll do my posting in English as I’m slowly losing my fight against thought processes in Spanish.
Need to put a stop to them.
