complich8′s journal

So I’m listening to a podcast from theregister, talking about Internet Governance… And I’m really feeling the “the americans are holding out” spin flying. I’m disappointed with the low production value of this … not in the audio quality, but in the simple fact that the commentator won’t let people talk. (continued — this is [...]

So, there’s at least one thing that works better in linux than windows: CD ripping. CDParanoia is roughly as paranoid as EAC. However, because it runs much closer to the “bare metal”, it can directly control the drive through fewer API layers, and using straight-up DMA. Which is a great thing … but CDParanoia is [...]

So I’m trying to populate a playlist in rhythmbox … andI keep running into random mp3 files that cause it to spiral out of control and crash. The mp3 files that cause the problems seem totally unpredictable, so far… just random files in random directories that just can’t read. So I’m going through my music [...]

(Toothpaste For Dinner)

American History X … wow, what a movie. Yeah, it was pretty freaking great. I don’t know what to say, other than that it really was amazing. I grabbed this on a whim, wanting something to balance out the crazy foreign film lineup it’d come with, and I wasn’t disappointed. American History X is about [...]