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Good Enough? by Stellan Andersson (Dane)

• Original SID
• Ogg Vorbis (low quality)
• MPEG audio, MP3 (even lower quality)

Stellan Andersson (Dane) is my new hero. Seems that every time I go through new stuff on HVSC, I find something new from Dane that I love. Similarly, much of the time when I listen to my favourite SIDs, these gems by Dane really get my attention. Enjoy.

ruutu-dl is a tool for downloading video from ruutu.fi and jimtv.fi. It’s a Ruby script that implements ugly spawn-kill loop around flvstreamer. On author’s setup, flvstreamer would stall every few megatypes and rtmpdump would produce large and broken video file. Read more or grab the latest version.

Sometimes shopping online just works, sometimes it doesn’t. This is a story about the latter.

Today I had my first experience in purchasing music in form of digital download. Everything went better that I ever dared to expect.

tl;dr: ATA Secure Erase works even when your screen appears to be dead after sleep/resume cycle. No surprises there, really.

Buying a cheap Chinese Android tablet for no particular from Singapore may not have been my brightest idea, but what’s done is done. This writing is sort of report on how things have turned out.

Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!

Late last night I finished replacing chikan.katei.fi with ayame.katei.fi. Unlike chikan (and its two emergency replacements), ayame actually has some server pedigree. Ayame is HP Proliant N40L MicroServer with 8 GiB of DDR3 ECC RAM.

Ever needed to downgrade a package with too many dependencies to count? plan-downgrade.pl may help. Read more.

Do you have a dump from /dev/dvb/adapter#/dvr# but can’t play it with GStreamer (using decodebin2)? Can other application such as mplayer play it? Make sure you use the right demuxer. I discovered that on my work computer decodebin2 was using flutsdemux (from Fluendo) to demux the transport stream. Skipping the details, this didn’t work. FFmpeg’s ffdemux_mpegts did.