The Road to Elysium

February 18, 2010

Rhythmbox Equalizer Revisited

Filed under: Day to day — jorge @ 08:15

June 30th 2009 I wrote about an equalizer-plugin for Rhythmbox which then was just about the only decent thing available. It now seems that that plugin isn’t being worked on anymore. Luckily we have people like Christopher Kruse from http://www.cornerofseven.com. :) He has now released version 1.3 of his Rhythmbox equalizer-plugin, which you can find at http://rbeq.googlecode.com/.

The installation:

$ wget http://rbeq.googlecode.com/files/rbeq-1.3.tar.gz
$ mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/
$ tar -zxvf rbeq-1.3.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/

Head on over to http://cornerofseven.com/blog/2010/02/rbeq-1-3-now-with-presets/ for the main post. Thanks Christopher!

And of course, a screenshot of the plugin:

January 21, 2010

A step in the right direction

Filed under: Day to day — jorge @ 21:59

This is my first real 2010 post I guess. Tomorrow work awaits, so I’m getting ready for bed as we speak. Bed by ten? Yep, that’s the way of life for someone who has to get up damn early in the morning.

So first of, Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360 is -awesome-. I really recommend it for people who like RPG type of games. Also, Marte, the IPod Touch has saved my life. Reading on it with Stanza is awesome.

I’m awaiting Lost Odyssey in the mail, and going nuts!

Now that I’ve whined, over to some gratitude.

Life, right now, is wonderful. I have a wonderful girl by my side, and we have two lovely sons. Our newborn, Noah, seems to be awake more during the night than during the day. But when he opens his eyes, it’s hard to imagine that he is seeing some things for the very first time, and feeling things. Like his dad’s ticklish beard in his face, or his mom’s long hair. Michael is growing every minute, and he’s starting to make decisions for himself, starting to find out who he is. It’s really amazing. I can’t imagine a life without these three, and that is what I mean by a step in the right direction. Things were really difficult for me and the Mrs in the past, but things seem to finally be turning our way. We’re sure working to make it that way. So here’s for 2010, hopefully a wonderful year for our little family.

January 12, 2010

Hello World!

Filed under: Day to day — jorge @ 16:02

Introducing Noah Galvarino:

December 5, 2009

Recommended Firefox addons

Filed under: Day to day — jorge @ 12:55

Been wanting to do this for ages really. Here’s what I consider to be the better Firefox addons available:

  • Adblock Plus
    • Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
  • MediaplayerConnectivity
    • Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click.
  • StartupMaster
    • Asks for the master password at startup (fixes multiple password prompt).
  • Tab Mix Plus
    • Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.
  • Tiny Menu
    • Replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup.
  • Xmarks
    • Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.
  • Web Developer
    • The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

October 14, 2009

Fedora 11 post updated

Filed under: Day to day — jorge @ 11:21

Hellooo.

I’ve now updated the post Fedora 11 on the Acer Aspire One with a new thing; How to enable autologin.

I will also be explaining how to properly format your USB-pen so that making a Live-USB is easier, and less troublesome. Head on over and have a look. :)

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