Mute Math are back in studio!
They are my absolute favourite band ever. Their style is hard to describe: Often you are told, that it’s somewhere between “rock, new wave, electro, psychedelia, and jazz with ambient vocals” (WP). Besides this, the reason why I love them so much is their really cutting-edge sounds and a huge passion for music. Once you have seen them, you would think, all other musicians play like robots. Awsome!
Here’s their last single “Typical”:
I went for a short trip to my parents last weekend. To have some literature for the train, I took the book about reusable object-oriented software: Design Patterns by the “Gang of Four“. Unfortunately, our library in Wedel has only the German translation. But anyway, this time I’m really interested in the topic, not like last year, when I’ve only had to pass an exam. Our Virtual Reality project is still in progress and Gamma’s Design Patterns are very important to our framework.
Later this Wednesday, I’ve been at the library at Berliner Tor, where two last copies in English stood. While walking by the shelves, I saw so many books I’d like to read. Books about Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, …
I defintely need more time in my life!
Almost every Linux user knows wine. It’s emulating a Windowssystem Layer to run Windows applications on Linux.
Ulteo’s “Virtual Desktop” does the way around: It emulates Linuxsystem Layer, so you can run Amarok, Konqueror, Kopete and others as well. The interesting thing about that is, Linux applications seem to get more acceptance so there is a need for emulating its programms on Windows.
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Just have visited the #ccc-channel on irc, yet got another fine program: PUF. It works like wget but has the special feature to download something with parallel connections.
Also available on Ubuntu repositories -> “apt-get install puf”
“Heute-Journal” is a German late-night news on ZDF. You can watch their shows for free both live and on demand at the ZDF-Mediathek.
You can play them on Linux if you’ve VLC- and Flash-plugins for your browser. In my Firefox-2 (64-bit) it’s not possible to pause or forward the playback. That’s the reason why I’ve written a small bash script, which downloads yesterday’s show mms-link and then uses mplayer to dump the stream into a file. After 5 seconds of downloading the stream, VLC starts an plays the dumpfile.
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#!/bin/bash
YESTERDAY=`date -d yesterday +”%y%m%d”`
ASX=”http://wstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/”$YESTERDAY”_hjo.asx”
TMP_PATH=$HOME”/tmp/”
DLINK=”hj_link”
HJNAME=”heute-journal.wmv”
cd $TMP_PATH
#Catch direct-link
wget -O $DLINK $ASX
#Extract direct-link
LINK=`sed “s/.*href=\”\(mms.*\.wmv\)\”.*/\1/” hj_link`
mplayer -dumpstream $LINK -dumpfile heute-journal.wmv & (sleep 5 && vlc $HJNAME &)
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Till now, I haven’t figured out, how to tell mplayer to read the .asx-file, so I’ve to extract the mms-link by myself with sed.
UPDATE: Who seek shall find! With the option “-playlist <playlistfile>” you can give mplayer a playlist, like asx-files, instead of a direct URL. Here the modified Bashscript:
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#!/bin/bash
YESTERDAY=`date -d yesterday +”%y%m%d”`
ASX=”http://wstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/”$YESTERDAY”_hjo.asx”
HJNAME=$HOME”/tmp/heute-journal.wmv”
mplayer -dumpstream -playlist $ASX -dumpfile $HJNAME & (sleep 5 && vlc $HJNAME &)
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This is a test image to check the workflow between Picasa (Linux) and Blogger. For all who are interested: You can see a person wearing shutter-spectacles and sitting on a small kart-dummy. He’s in a Virtual Reality Cave with four projectionwalls. The images on the walls flickers with 60Hz alternating for the left and for the right eye. In this time (60 times per second) the shutter-spectacles shut the sight for this eye; so the right eye only sees whats for the right eye and the left one likewise.
What’s this good for? -> You can see really 3-dimensional!
Fourther information is aviable at http://cg.fh-wedel.de/vrlab/cave/index.html
With sprunge.us you can pipe an output of a shellapplication to its nopaste-webservice. It returns the URL of the pasting at sprunge.
Look at the homepage to see its manpage!
My rating: 4 of 5 Nerds =)
Okay, I’m a blogger again. Well, but this time this blog is not a real blog, its purpose is more like a personal notepad, like the name.
AND: I’ll try my best in writing in english. Not because I’m so good in it, just only to improve my skills in expressing myself. In speech, I can handle it quite good, but not in writing…
So, if you want to help me: Please leave a comment and help me by correcting my mistakes!
Thanks!
