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    29 November 2006

    Greens Cafe

    Filed under: Blog — martin @ 10:46 am

    I’m in Green’s Café waiting for another linyah algebra lecture to start. Everyone is really excited about this cool matrices lecture. Only 3 more days of lectures this term, including today then i’m off home yey!

    18 November 2006

    Proposed LAN

    Filed under: Computer — martin @ 9:27 pm

    Internal review onlylan.png

    17 November 2006

    Windows Update

    Filed under: Computer — martin @ 10:54 pm

    Now My PC is uberslow.
    No repeats in between each screenshot. After windows update, I could not log in, and when i finally did, it had broken my drivers :@
    tada.PNG

    Click the thumbnail to enlarge.

    7 November 2006

    Linear Algebra Sucks

    Filed under: Blog — martin @ 10:57 pm

    Hi again. It’s been a while since I last posted, so here goes.

    Linear Algebra sucks as usual. Don’t believe me? Then heres a mathematical proof (literally). Calculus is ok at the moment and Haskell is actually pretty cool (We’re making a fake plant drawing algorithm).

    Today I was invited to the president’s lunch thing which was cool (never turn down free food).

    To Andy who loves bunnies heres a picture:

    bunny.jpg

    I can also now reveal the website that I’m so excited about. Thanks to my good friend Andrew, it now does basic things, but of course you can’t see it yet. www.micronatia.com

    5 November 2006

    Web project

    Filed under: Computer — martin @ 2:13 am

    Today I embarked on my latest web project. This time I have decided to let someone else do the programming (Andrew Godwin) and I will stand make and admire it. Hopefully this top secret project wont go into the pile of abandoned code and be a thriving community, unique in its special way. Well 2am gotta dash

    3 November 2006

    NOD32

    Filed under: Uncategorized — martin @ 11:07 pm

    Now the best Windows antivirus program has a cool secret page:

    http://www.eset.com/company/fun_stuff.php

    the NOD32 song :D

    1 November 2006

    Sorting MP3s by ID3 tag

    Filed under: Blog — martin @ 12:00 am

    OK so nothing much happened today except calculus which I’m sure you aren’t interested in. I have sucessfully done some laundry too :)

    With the help of Andrew Godwin my MP3s are now sorted into folders.

    First I ran the following shell script to move all MP3s without ID3 tags to a seperate folder

    tagless.sh

    find . -iname “*.mp3″ -exec sh -c ‘id3v2 -l “$0″ | xargs -0 echo -en $PWD/ | grep “No ID3 tag” | cut -f1 -d”:” | sed -e s/” .\/”// -e s/$/”\” \/media\/red\/untagged\/”/ -e s/^/”mv \”"/’ {} {} \; | while read line; do eval ${line}; done

    Then i used amaroK to sort the remaining MP3s and WMAs and oggs into paths like this
    W/Weird Al/Poodle Hat/Hardware Store.mp3

    Unfortunately some rippers didnt fill in correctly spellt ID3 tags :(