blog.karma23 http://blog.karma23.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 03 May 2010 07:46:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 If you can’t make it good… http://blog.karma23.com/if-you-cant-make-it-good/ http://blog.karma23.com/if-you-cant-make-it-good/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 07:44:39 +0000 admin http://blog.karma23.com/?p=143

Inspired by this Threadless design

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Reddit: How many of you have ever seen an actual floppy disk?
Me: Yes, I’ve played Oregon Trail, and not on an emulator.
Reddit: [massive upvotes and response]
Me: I love you!

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via Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog

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]]> http://blog.karma23.com/my-android-is-infected-not-really/feed/ 1 Ylmf OS: The Geely of Computer OS’s http://blog.karma23.com/ylmf-os-the-geely-of-computer-oss/ http://blog.karma23.com/ylmf-os-the-geely-of-computer-oss/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:34:32 +0000 admin http://blog.karma23.com/?p=79 While they’re not busy copying cars, they’re also copying operating systems. To be fair it’s Ubuntu, so it’s alright to copy that, but I think they’re going a bit overboard with this one. I think Micro$oft would get a little offended. There are dozens of Ubuntu based Linux distributions, but Ylmf (an Ubuntu based Chinese language operating system) is attempting to look very very much like Windows XP; including desktop icons, colors, desktop background, window border, etc. I’m very surprised they didn’t use the Windows Internet Explorer icon for Firefox.

I took the pleasure of installing it in a VirtualBox. The default install is completely in Chinese, so I installed the English language packs for the screenshots. Enjoy.

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I just wanted to take some time to thank reddit, the reddit community, and those who organized the first reddit secret santa (especially kickme444). I got my first reddit trophy today for participating in the secret santa gift exchange at redditgifts.com. What a wonderful gift to receive just hours before Christmas. It was such a blast to participate this year. Reddit truly is a great place. I can’t wait until next year!

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Late last night I was casually browsing reddit and noticed this headline: ‘Isn’t it about time Foodit gets it’s [sic] own alien?’. Little did I know that a few hours later my creation would become the new ‘foodit’ custom alien.

For a while now reddit.com, a news aggregation site, has allowed their custom ‘reddits’ (also known as sub-reddits) to have custom styles. The moderator(s) of those custom reddits can change the css and logo of their reddit. This gives them the ability to change the link color, link hover color, background color, header background color, font sizes, etc. Although the custom styles aren’t enabled by default for every user, it’s a pretty cool feature that I’m glad they’ve implemented.

Edit: I’ve been advised that custom styles ARE now enabled by default, even better!

Check out the post that lead to my creation becoming the custom reddit logo for the food reddit here.

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I was just randomly playing around with Rhythmbox on Ubuntu and I noticed you could add Play count under Visible Columns in Preferences. I sorted them by most played and here are the top 7:

7) Faxing Berlin by Deadmau5:

6) Cloud 9 by Paul Keely:

5) I Remember by Deadmau5:

4) Faxing Berlin (Piano Acoustic Version) by Deadmau5:

3) Spade by Marilyn Manson:

2) I Am What I Am (Lange Remix) by Deadmau5:

1) Piovere by Sindre Eide:

So, take it or leave it, that is the top 7 most played tracks on my playlist. As you can see I listen mostly to trance (specifically progressive trance), but I’m not afraid to mix it up a little and enjoy other genres. What are your top most played tracks?

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