Over the weekend, while I wasn’t working on splicing together and editing a video for work (how I got roped into doing that, I’ll never know), I dug my Nintendo Wii out of the box I had so foolishly packed it in — why I thought it would stay in there for long, I don’t know — and proceeded to install a new channel on it, the Homebrew Channel. This is a third-party channel that lets you play homebrew games, emulators, and other applications (e.g. Linux, media players, etc.) on your Wii. Yes, you can play a lot of older games without installing this hack and the emulators by buying them on the Virtual Console, but if you already own them, why pay for them again, especially if they aren’t even available on the shop (e.g. the entire Mega Man original series)? Below the fold, the nitty gritty of the hack, and a video of it in action.
Linux
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That last post brings me to a related rant.
A computer-related rant, specifically. About some choices the Ubuntu folks have made that I don’t agree with.
That’s right, I’m about to complain about Linux, rather than my usual target, Windows.
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Firefox 3 is out
For those of you that are using Linux, you already know how to update Firefox — just use Update Manager and install any Firefox update that’s available. For you poor souls on Windows, good luck — the download site has been a very slow site all day long. And it’s no wonder — there have been (last time I checked) roughly 800,000 downloads today alone. The counter seems to be broken now, though, so I don’t know if that’s still incrementing.
Hooray for open source!
Blogging from my Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
This is my second attempt at posting from my Nokia internet tablet. The first attempt saw WordPy (a Python-based WordPress client) crash after having nearly completed the post, sadly. This time I’m doing it through the built-in Opera browser, which isn’t bad, though it’s not capable of handling some of the nicer bits of Javascript that powers the WordPress admin panel.
I’ve been rediscovering this nifty little gadget over the past few days, having recieved a 2-gig MMC Mobile media card, which by the way I can’t seem to get anything to reliably read past the 1 gig mark, even devices that say they can see the full drive. I’d ordered it from eBay in an effort to improve on my music-for-biking situation, as the CD player was falling short on a number of levels. The fact that this has no moving parts is a huge advantage, though the music interface that comes stock leaves much to be desired, and the CPU on this is overwhelmed by third party media players like Canola or Kagu.
For blogging, I’d have to say, if I had an IR or Bluetooth keyboard I’d be much happier. Oh well, at least this is Linux-based so I can install all sorts of useful utilities, especially now that I have room for them.
Fun with Bash, and converting file formats under Linux
As you may or may not already know, I’ve been biking to and from work whenever I can (and when my body permits) as of late. With gas at 138 cents a litre, who can blame me? I did the first few trips without music, but I have to say, having something to set the rhythm of my pedalling to makes things so much easier.
Only problem was, my music collection was in .ogg file format.
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