If you’re in for a good laugh, check in on http://icanhascheezburger.com . The cat pics are the best 🙂
A few of my favorites:
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Author: Matthias
smartd temperature error messages
I have 2 western digital 2500KS hard disks and noticed already some time ago that the smart implementation is not correct when it comes to temperatures. Afaik, it was something like reporting the temp in °F while they claim to report it in °C. This wouldn’t be a problem if they didn’t also define the thresholds in °C. On an operating system like windows, the user never is bothered by this shortcoming as windows simply has no clue about SMART. On linux however, the user is typically notified by mail or desktop popup when a hard drive exceeds its maximum temp. Which is quite annoying if it is a false alarm. 😉
A lot of 3rd party tools exist for windows, and that is how I originally encountered the problem. So it is really a firmware bug.
So I started looking for a way to either
- add some offset to the limits
- disable only temp monitoring on only those disks
How to check your bios version at runtime
If you want to know which bios version or its release date or any other part of information contained in the bios, try these commands:
On a side note, I believe it’s pretty retarded of the motherboard vendors to only supply windows based flashing applications…
Extract audio from FLV tool
Ever wanted to split off the audio from a flash movie? I know you want to. 😉
Until now I simply used graphedit+ffdshow+dump filters but it is quite clumsy to work with. 😉 So today I did another google search, and yep, it’s an all active subject on the web by now. 🙂 It seems there are quite some tools now, but a lot also seem very questionable… Until I found this open source one (always trust that more ;)).
So, without further ado: enjoy Moitah’s tools!
P.S.: as a bonus, you get an avi too 😉
ooxml vs odf
An interesting view on the OOXML controversy.
Next Akademy in Belgium!
Yay! 🙂
Interview with Portal devs
In case you didn’t know yet, I’m quite enthousiastic about Valve‘s upcoming Portal game. Apparently, the team behind this wicked puzzle game is really a group of DigiPen students, hired by Valve immediately after graduation!
Read all about the interesting history of both the team and the game in an interview done by the Planet Halflife guys!
Peace one day
Today is Peace One Day day! 🙂 What do you want do for peace today..? 🙂
a few site stats
Since May 2006 I switched to Google Analytics for site stats. Tonight I thought I’d take a look at the progress of last 8 months (timeframe TF2) in comparison to the 8 months before that (TF1). It was to be expected to have more traffic in TF2 than in TF1. Generally, this was also the case, although I was kind of surprised that TF1 did better during the 3rd and 4th month… No apparent explanation for that (both TF’s had a comparable number of posts during that period, although I can imagine the general public finds an ipod a more interesting subject than programming Qt ;)).
In general there were 30% more pageviews in TF2 (3000 in 8 months, peanuts, I know ;))
Now for the fun stuff:
- visitors: came from 85 countries. 1. USA 2. Belgium 3. Germany
- OS: Windows -10% in favor of Mac users. Linux stays the same.
- browser: I’m happy that the vast majority of visitors does not use Internut Exploiter. Firefox is the big winner here. Opera third..
- screen resolution: 47 different ones!! It seems still a lot of people use 1024×768 (25%). An equal amount uses 1280×1024. Some guy browses on a 800×5000 screen res!!
Ok, that’s it for today. Signing off..
oh btw, Frets on Fire turns out to be pretty addictive. The world chart really gives an incentive to keep practicing 😉