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Ahhhg June - July

Weddings and thesis writing. I am trying to defend august 7th and be done by the 31st so I'll see you in September. Then its daily political diatribes time; tune in.

andlinux + amarok = Awesome

So I needed to work on my thesis in windows. I like music and amarok is the best player ever. So now i have amarok 1.4 in windows thanks to andlinux.

Heres a tutorial for people who want to do this and have any idea what im talking about.

install andlinux

restart windows

disable windows firewall settings on the new CoTAP network device

add Xming.exe and pulseaudio.exe to the whitelist in windows defender/firewall

restart windows
follow guide here to add a non root user

restart windows

run synaptic from the andlinux launcher

add medibuntu to apt sources

install alsa amarok amarokengines-xine xine-ffmpeg

do other cool stuff you want like install more stuff or get rid of kde stuff you dont need

run a terminal

launch amarok

Optional (run the kde kicker launch stuff from there)

If anyone can get amarok's systray icon to appear in the kicker and not in a floating window let me know

March Over

March = School

April = More School

Read this: http://www.slate.com/id/2188016/

batteries

I just spent a half hour wedging and taping a few half dead batteries i had sitting around into a calculator instead of getting up and getting another one from my closet.

On apple eating...

I just discovered that I have been eating apples poorly for years. I had been eating around the circumference once then repeating passes eating apple flesh closer to the poles on each pass. I had an epiphany that instead of circumnavigating the globe I should focus on fully devouring one hemisphere first. This technique leaves most of the apple encased in its skin preventing the oxidation that usally keeps me from finishing apples.

What the Hell happened to scroogle.org

So Scroogle.org stopped being a thing which means that scrooglyric stopped working in amarok. This is the best lyric fetcher ever and you should switch to linux just to discover whether or not your lyrics intereptation is correct for that song that makes you think about her or him. Maybe the artist was actualy singing about a volkswagen coupe  and not a hot red head prostitute. If its a screamo song your probally missing all the sweet vampire symbolism. 

Anyway I hope that this post helps the googlers out there trying to fix their broken amarok. 
If your scrooglyrics script fails to reach the server you need the new and improved googlyrics by the same guy on kde-apps.org.



Heres the new link

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=73850  



As opposed to the old and busted

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=73850

By my calculation this blogpost may helpthe 295-46-1 = 248 people who downloaded the old script but have not downloaded the new one.  Thanks to ultra and his buddies for perl wizardry.

Google Bomb!

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amarok script lyrics
scroogle scrooglyrics error
broken failed to reach server
googlyrics