foobar 0.9

Version 0.9 of foobar2000 has been released (no idea when, since the changelog doesn’t have any dates, not even years). Looks like support for Windows 95/98/ME and NT4 has been dropped.

I wonder if 0.8 should be uninstalled prior to installing this. Can’t find any quick answers, so I think I’m gonna. Also wonder whether the Audioscrobbler plugin has been updated to work with this.

Update: Looks like it has, and there’s a 0.9-compatible version of AMIP, as well! Yi-pee!

Crashed Linux

“Everyone is familiar with blue-screening kiosks and travel information displays, but this one was pretty new to me. The route display [running on Linux] on this Air Algerie Airbus a330 was visibly experiencing some disk issues.”

milliped’s photostream via Juha

Yahoo demands sites bearing their ads be US only

“I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. I started running the Yahoo text ads on many of my web sites.

A couple of days ago Yahoo sent me a notice stating they’d revised their Publisher Policy. Item ’11.l’ stated that I will not “display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US”. In other words, I can’t allow users outside of the United States to view my pages if there is a Yahoo ad on the page!”

Boing Boing

Further proof for my “Yahoo is evil” case.

A Su Doku Solver in C

“This is a console-based Linux program, written in C language, that solves Su Doku puzzles (aka Sudoku, Number Place, etc., see figure 1) using deductive logic. It will only resort to trial-and-error and backtracking approaches upon exhausting its deductive moves.”

Tech Finesse via Juha

The Bob-clock

“The Bob-clock is a wall-clock I have built, which uses 60 multi-color LEDs arranged in a circle to represent the small and big arm of an analog clock. If desired, it can also display the seconds with a third color.”

symlink.dk via Juha

Puolustusministeriö vaihtaa Linuxiin

Puolustusministeriö on ottanut käyttöön Linux-käyttöjärjestelmän kriittisten tietokoneohjelmistojensa alustana. Ministeriön mukaan sen toiminta ja päätöksenteko riippuu tietojärjestelmän häiriöttömyydestä ja turvallisuudesta. […]

Puolustusministeriön järjestelmän päivityksistä, ylläpidosta ja muista vastaavista tehtävistä vastaa Novell, jolta puolustusministeriö hankki SuSE Linuxinsa.”

HS.fi via Juha
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