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Console Radio Player

taihen — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:37:20 +0000

I've improved/updated/translated bash script that I'm using for playing online radio. It mostly consist polish channels ( like trójka, zetka, euro itd ) and some international ( somafm ). I don't know where I took it from originally but all contributors that I've remembered been included. If you have any channels to add, do it, [...]

My Boxee Box

taihen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:41:00 +0000

I was always fighting with my perfect home-theater idea, most of my setups based on low end devices that suppose deliver something always were failing here and there. On the other side I've always want to have a development server that I can upload my small projects (a real *nix box sitting in the corner) [...]

Why Google Chrome ?

taihen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:30:22 +0000

For many years, Firefox has been the only browser I use regularly, even in ancient times when it was called Phoenix. I've tried to make things work with other browsers ( well, Opera only ), but I always drifted back to Firefox. The community and the variable plugins, make of it one of the kind. [...]

Ebook readers model fail ( again )

taihen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:02:12 +0000

Last year I was heavily considering buying an ebook reader as my private library was growing to quick ( and I'm renting, so it's mother of time as I would have to move out ) and some books that I was carry around had over 500 pages! I was lucky enough in some ways, cause [...]

Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC

taihen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:40:59 +0000

I found above message in a kernel log and I was just wondering what is all about. I was amazed how little I knew about it. Quick googleing gave me some nice answers: A leap second is a second, as measured by an atomic clock, added to or subtracted from UTC to make it agree [...]