Author Archives: Donncha

Pronnsias may have a point..

mp3burn is a simple command line tool for making audio CDs from mp3s without filling up your disk with .wav files. It requires perl, mpg123, and cdrecord.
update! Why not use a self made script? (see comments)
Because I keep forgetting the parameters to pass to cdrecord, and it’s easier to have someone else maintain a package than me. Plus there’s a few graphical frontends for mp3burn that could be handy for the family.. Might finally get my brother interested in using Linux as a desktop!

Here’s why the techies on ILUG didn’t get excited about the Government’s plan to restrict the Freedom of Information act:

1. It came just a week after the data retention fiasco. There’s only so much ranting and raving one can do, even the ILUG! People are bored of politics.
2. The FOI Act deals with data that most people just don’t care about in their day to day life. The data retention policy directly applies to me because I go online at home. Do I have any issue with the Governement that I need “secret” information to persue? No, of course not, but if you are concerned about the running of the Government then the FOI Act is important. In a perfect democracy all citizens would be concerned citizens..

Who wants to be in the office today? I’d rather be flying a kite!
Wish I had the money for some of the kites on mobilekiteshop..

RTÉ News report on Grainne’s murder trial. There’s more on 96fm.

Sentencing Nascimento, Mr Justice Barry White said there was no need for Grainne to die.

Looks like KDE gets an Outlook clone in the form of Kontact. Well, in fact it integrates the existing KDE applications Kmail, Korganiser, Kaddressbook, Knotes. Looks good, I’m downloading it!

What if mudders planned a war on Iraq?

US: Ok, putting together RvR group for Iraq raid… who’s in?
Turkey: Only if someone makes me new armor. Last Iraq raid I lost money on
US: *sigh* Ok, can’t build you the new armor, but I’ll help pay for it. How
much you need.
Turkey: 6 Plat.
US: WTF?! You’re not building the armor out of platinum, ya tard.. no
frikking way.