Last Saturday me and swb decided to go for a quick ride out to the Rheidol reservoir and back (route). The water was flowing over the top with an incredible force, making bubbles travel under water for many metres and jets of water to bounce back up behind the sheet of water.

The Rheidol in January 2006

The Rheidol 4 months later in May.

In other news, I have now completed my university exams and have two months of relative freedom, I say “relative” because I still have to work 18 hours a week, until August when I shall start working full time.

AllofMP3 is down at the moment. Their website says for maintenance. Slyck says it’s just while they recover from having servers siezed by the russian authorities. Even if it will be back, how long can AllofMp3 really survive with so much pressure on it? Putin’s recent assertion that Russia “must defend copyright inside the country. That is our obligation to our foreign partners” makes me think not long. Why is AllofMp3 so popular and what will happen if and when AllofMp3 disappears? (more…)

I have packaged last exit with my modification as described in yesterday’s post.

You can just download the package and install it by typing

sudo dpkg -i last-exit_0.2-3_i386.deb or you can add my repository to your sources list and then you’ll automatically get updates when new versions are packaged.

If you want to add my repository open /etc/apt/sources.list in a text editor and add

deb http://www.newspeak.org.uk/repository/ binary/

(note: there is meant to be a space between “…repository/” and “binary/”)

Then type

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install last-exit
last-exit

There are a number of bugs with last exit currently, such as the program segfaulting when you click on the information icon and when you close the program. If you have problems other than those feel free to leave a comment here but please bear in mind that I am not the original software author I have merely packaged it and made a minor alteration.

More screenshots

Last Exit is a Gtk based player for Last.fm. If, like me, you use GNOME Desktop then you might prefer the way this player looks compared to the Qt based official Last.fm player. It is harder to install than the official player and as it’s still quite new there are still a few bugs that need to be ironed out. I have written some basic instructions for installing Last Exit on Ubuntu Linux. (more…)