Richard Spindler’s Weblog
New Apartment
Hi,
I’ve been spending almost all of the last two weeks moving into a new apartment. And my creative energy on finding tricky solutions to common problems. 
Check out my new fancy computer desk:
Notice how the cable from the screen runs down into the pot, disguised in fake ivy.
Cheers
-Richard
Spread the word
ungzip my pants and suck my tarballs
Don’t buy 1TB disks, kids
They are not worth the trouble.
Fortunately I was able to fix the 33mb vs. 1tb problem with my WD HDD, using the HDD Capacity Restore tool linked in this article. Data was not damaged, everything still there after the fix.
Cheers
-Richard
4 Days, …
… 8 Men, 3 Cars, Bikes, and a whole lot of flat tires.
Elba
Linus too
Appearently, I am not the only one:
Linus says:
No, the problem I’ve seen in gcc
is that _some_ of the developers seem to be total d*ckheads when it comes
to “language definition”, and seem to think that it’s more important to
read the language spec like a lawyer than it is to solve actual user
problems.
Pathetic
I’m not entierly sure, but this could be meant as a joke, read through the following quotes from the OSNews Entry: Dvorak: Vista’s 11 Pillars of Failure:
I am a happy Windows Vista user.
he brought me a new Quad-core processor and high-end Intel motherboard.
But perhaps my greatest reason for not having a problem with Vista is that I really only use this computer for browsing the web and working on the occasional document.
For me the main reason for buying a lot of computing power is to do, you know “computing”. And with computing I mean adding and multiplying and doing other calculations and stuff. I am actually thinking about building one of those. And then trying to squeeze as much HDV color grading performance as possible out out of that rack. For doing basic web-browsing, an Eee PC, ought to be enough for everybody I guess.
Cheers
-Richard
PS.: btw. Linux runs on both, the homemade cluster and the Eee PC.
Mac Ware again…
Since Apple Macs ship without Crapware, it seems as if you need to buy that stuff yourself.
Sounds like a fair deal, right?
PS.: Also known as Shovelware.
Lazy Podcast Setup
Hi,
did you ever think about recording a podcast with some friends, but you were never able to organize a common meeting and set up all the hardware to actually do the recording? Well, now its easy to record a podcast interview:
Check out this article: Howto setup Asterisk for recording a podcast over the Internet.
While the setup might require a little work, once its done, the recording of the podcast is super easy, just use a VOIP Software Phone (like Ekiga), call into the shared conference room, talk with your other podcast members about a topic of your choice and after that hang up. Thats it, you’re done. Your recording is already available as a convenient download, just use a simple audio editor like Audacity to do the final mixing.
btw. we are currently using that setup to record some shows, (although in german language), so stay tuned.
Have fun,
Cheers
-Richard
Help the Libre Graphics Meeting
Hi,
If you happen to care about Graphics and Artistic Software on Linux, you might want to consider the following pledge.
I will probably not attend that event, but I think its a really nice effort. 
Cheers,
-Richard
Doomed if you do, doomed if you don’t
So, if you compile without “-std=c99″, then I get this warning:
warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'lrint'
And if I enable that switch, M_PI is suddenly undefined.
'M_PI' undeclared
Can anybody explain me how I am expected to write software without rounding and PI?
And no, I can’t be bothered to define PI in all my sourcefiles myself!
Cheers
-Richard