Many moons ago, Boing Boing covered a little known UK sitcom called The IT Crowd. Last month I managed to download and watch all 6 episodes. Since then I keep checking back on their web site to see when there will be an episode 7... So, yeah...
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June 04, 2006
Compiling LibBeecrypt on WIN XP
I actually worked through these problems in February, but never posted them for some reason. I ran into these problems again today and looked for what I had done - fortunately I BCC'd myself on a few email where I described this solution to someone else...
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June 08, 2006
Perl Module Image::Epeg won't compile on Mac OS X
Epeg is a jpeg thumbnail library - I'll talk about it more another day (if I like it). Libepeg installed nicely through Darwin Ports but the perl interface wouldn't compile. Compiling gives the following errors:mysys$ perl Makefile.PLWARNING: Setting ABSTRACT via file 'Epeg...
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June 09, 2006
Thumbnailing JPEGs with Image::Epeg
Well, I tried using Image Magick to resize thumbnails, but it doesn't respect aspect ratios (or at least I couldn't figure out how to make it retain the aspect ratio using the perl interface - or I should say I didn't want to put any effort into this). A week or more ago...
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June 15, 2006
Installing XP Pro on Dell Inspiron 1300 Fails
The installer dies with some stop error code and message that includes pci.sys. Read up on Dell's web forum, many people suggested that a Windows XP Pro SP2 disk would not have this problem.... who has one of those laying around? Others suggested slipstreaming XP2.....
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