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Ok, so Novell in their infinite wisdom decided to remove MP3 support from SuSE around v10.0. It’s a bit hard to find concrete information on how to get some sort of mp3 support in SuSE, so here it is:

1. Install XMMS
2. Download the XMMS mpg123 rpm from this page.
3. Install it:

\#rpm -ivh xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-13.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xmms-mpg123 ########################################### [100%]

4. Run XMMS and enjoy!

I don’t know how to get mp3 working in a lot of the other programs, I’ll try and work that out later. There’s a short article here in DesktopLinux.com on Hacking OpenSuSE - getting mp3 and dvd support in SuSE.

Ok, so I work for a call center outsourcing company on a contract doing customer care for a mobile company. The company’s been around for a while, and now it’s shutting down because their parent company Hutchison decided that 3g is a better bet (it is) and CDMA isn’t the way to go anymore.

I’d have to agree with them - most of the customers on the network were there because they got the cheapest service they could find, and it worked for them - most of the time. The phones sucked, the network sucked more, and while it was more profitable than 3g before they decided that the end was near, maintaining an old network isn’t a good business plan. The ability to focus your capital and human resources on a newer product tends to be the smart idea in business.

Well, I’ve finally gone to a hairdressers’ for the first time in about twelve months or so - not to get my hair cut short of course, just a clean-up trim and do something different. I’ll post more later, bit lazy and sneaky to mention too much 🙂

I’ve needed a new pair of shoes for a while, the 10 hole Dr. Martens I’ve been wearing for nearly 18 months are looking a little worse for wear. It seems that Australian importers don’t bring them in anymore, so I had a choice - 14 hole size 14’s that probably wouldn’t be too comfortable (not a good thing) - or a pair of 8 hole size 15’s which will be nice once they are worn in. I went with the 8 holes, setting me back $189, not bad for another 18 months or so wear, I hope 🙂

I’m a doofer, and one of the best non-music entertainment aspects of a doof is people with poi/firesticks/etc - it’s also pretty good exercise since you’re always moving 🙂

Bob bought a set of the Ultimate Performance Poi from Home of Poi the other day, so I inherited his old glowstick poi and have decided to start learning the art.

As anyone that knows me would realise, my coordination sucks. This makes getting some of even the beginner things like even getting them spinning a bit weird to start with, but I think I’m improving even after just being shown the proper technique and practising for an hour or so today. I think I’m going to have to buy myself a proper set of poi, since the glow stick ones just aren’t balanced right - they are dog chains with glow sticks on the end, and the ends are lighter than the chains, which borks them up.

Basically all we have to do now is put the tailshaft in and hope for the best - there’s a few little things to do on that side, like get a PCV valve and an oil catch can, and find one of the bolts for the rocker cover to make it seal up properly. I know the clutch that’s in there is a bit bodgy, so that might cause a little bit of a problem, but that’s relatively easily fixed.

Today, humanity stands on the brink. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, Darfur, Chad, Nepal… across the world, violence and anger overwhelm any progress towards peace and liberty. We are a divided species, basing our hatreds on even the most arbitrary classifications, unable to move past our quarrels to embrace common humanity. Since difference is all we can see, suffering is all we can expect.

That’s why you should go poop right now.

Email Battles has an article on a new change to Firefox’s JavaScript Garbage Collection. Aparrently there’s a hard limit of 4MB for some JS engine operations so that people using loads of tabs with pages full of JS will kill things. Sounds like what happens every time I go porn browsing or researching something - after a while it’ll just chug up, take loads of resources and I’ll have to either wait a day or two for it to un-fuck itself, or I’ll kill it and lose all my tabs.

Finally, after 10 months, I’ve got an engine that runs! Over the last few days we’ve done a lot of work, getting the fuel system in, cooling system completed and all sorts of wiring done up. It took a lot of playing around, but it got together in the end.

It felt so great just to put the key in the ignition, turn it, and have something happen! We got oil pressure rather quickly - after we filled up the oil filter. 🙂 Next was confirming fuel flow and so on, and it mostly worked pretty well first go, just a bit of air in the lines and so forth. We had the inlet/outlet backwards on the carby first go, since we didn’t know which one was which - the wonders of using old hardware that doesn’t have a manual 🙂

Wow, I was going through my web stats because I was bored today, and what did I find? More people trying to access something I uploaded (as far as I can tell) about this time in 2003. I posted the Playboy Photoshoot of the Brazilian Womens’ Soccer Team, and took it down about three or four months’ later, because I redesigned the site or something. I keep seeing people try to access it in my stats, so I thought I’d try and find it (which I did, in an age-old backup of my site) and upload it to see how many more people will access it in the future. The only thing I’ll change is an addition of a link back to the main page, so hopefully someone will come to my site for more than the boobies.

Mental note - when you’re supposed to start at 11pm, don’t get out of bed at 10:35 - especially when you live what is normally a twenty-five minute drive to work - it sucks. I got there with a minute to spare, and I’d showered, brushed my teeth, shifted the pimpmobile out of the way to get to the camry, picked up my lunch and gotten dressed except for my shoes (one of which I put on while on the highway, the other while sitting at the last red light before work. Go me!