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  1. Try another client by bluhatter · · Score: 1 · on AOL's new Linux PC

    If you're a windows user, miranda icq is very nice, tiny, and skinnable. If you're a linux user, no doubt you've heard of licq or Kit. And if you want something more than just icq, both Trillian (windows) and jabber (linux) are good alternatives to using the default icq bloated adware.

    Watashi wa watashi.

  2. A Playlist patch for XMMS by abelsson · · Score: 3, Informative · on Winamp Alpha for Linux
    I wrote a patch to filter the playlist of XMMS a while back - it's pretty simple: You start typing in the playlist and it filters out all the songs that doesnt match the string you wrote. Backspace deletes the last string you typed.

    It's really convenient when you have a 2000 song playlist and just want to listen to a specific album.

    However, it breaks the usual shortcuts (p for play, etc) in the playlist - you need to use the main window for that. There are lots of improvements that could be done - wildcard and substring matching are obvious ones. But it works well enough for me, and makes the XMMS playlist much more useful I like to have a large playlist and just filter out things i don't want to hear right now.

    Anyway.. if anyone's interested it's available here (I'm not sure it still patches cleanly, haven't tried in a while.)

    -henrik

  3. Not interested really.. by abelsson · · Score: 2 · on O'Reilly Sez Ask Craig Mundie
    Frankly I'm not all that interested in what Mr. Mundie or anyone else at Microsoft does. I'm going to keep on using Linux when it's the appropriate tool for the job and keep on coding on my humble pet projects. Nothing what Microsoft or anyone else does changes that for me. Do i care if linux has a 5% or a 25% market share? Not really.. Free software has existed for a long time, and will continue to exist long after microsoft is gone. I use windows occationally - for the tasks it's better at than linux. I'm not a religious free software fanatic, i just use it because it's better.

    A large part of why free software is "better" is because i *know* i can fix things that annoy me. Case point: i thought XMMs playlist handling sucked for a playlist of a few thousand songs, so i implemented playlist filtering (start typing in the playlist area and it filters out all songs that doesnt match). The XMMS maintainers weren't interested in accepting the patch, because it broke the keyboard shortcuts in the playlist. That's fine with me, they wrote it and can accept or reject patches as they please - but i never use those shortcuts so i didn't care about breaking them.

    End result: I'm running a version of XMMS that works the way *I* want, and the maintainers are distributing a version they like. *That* is the power of free software. (and if you happen to be interested in the playlist filtering patch, just mail me)

    -henrik

  4. I built my computer into the wall :) by abelsson · · Score: 5 · on Building Quieter Computers
    Funnily enough i can post exactly the same comment twice in one day and still be on topic :)

    See http://abelsson.com/tystdator . Comments are in swedish, but it's the pictures that are interesting in any case. Dont worry about not understanding the comments on that page, you're not missing much. I originally wrote it for a swedish friend of mine..

    The basic idea was just that i wanted a quiet computer - and i had a spare room behind where i had my computer. So.. i just a few drilled holes in the wall and put the computer on the other side.

    It works extremely well. Best part is that my box is *completely* quiet. It's exactly like having a fanless box. I've almost started to get annoyed by the noise my monitor makes. :)

    It looks pretty cool too.

    -henrik

  5. I build my computer into the wall :) by abelsson · · Score: 5 · on Hardwoodware
    See http://abelsson.com/tystdator . Comments are in swedish, but it's the pictures that are interesting in any case.

    It works extremely well. Best part is that my box is *completely* quiet. It's like having a fanless box. I've almost started to get annoyed by the noise my monitor makes. :)

    It looks pretty cool too.

    -henrik

  6. Shameless OT plug.. by abelsson · · Score: 2 · on France Telecom To Support Jabber
    Interested in security? KiT is yet another IM system but with built in encryption.. supports it's own protocol, aim, icq and soon jabber (as soon as i get around to implementing it :)

    It's still very alpha and a lot of features aren't implemented, but KiT works reasonably well.

    Feel free to try it out.. :)

    -henrik

  7. Shameless OT plug.. by abelsson · · Score: 2 · on France Telecom To Support Jabber
    Interested in security? KiT is yet another IM system but with built in encryption.. supports it's own protocol, aim, icq and soon jabber (as soon as i get around to implementing it :)

    It's still very alpha and a lot of features aren't implemented, but KiT works reasonably well.

    Feel free to try it out.. :)

    -henrik