reasons to be happy

[sistawendy]

I complained a while back about a lack of working browser plugin for audio on 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise that I can use with KEXP. This turns out to be unfounded. Sure, the Real plugin comes up with 40% of the linear dimensions it should and it's completely illegible, but if I click the correct vestige of a button, it plays. O frabjous day!

I made expensive but spiffy laminated signs for various kinds of solid waste.

OK, this is a reason to be amused: you know your bike is old when a toe clip breaks due to metal fatigue.

Nun plan: Since this is my last unallocated weekend before Burning Man, I'll be haunting the Usual Haunts, i.e. Merc & CHAC, on Friday. I hope to see lots of you out. Honorable mention: Battle of the Mega-Mixes Saturday at Baltic.

Comments

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

How old is your bike?

I am about to the point of having to buy a new one... the 10 speed I currently have, I got second hand (papa rescued it from the scrap metal heap) when I was 8 years old...

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I bought my bike used in 1990. I think it was made in the mid 80s.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

prolly about the same age as mine then :)

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I've had three-year-old components fail from fatigue. Toeclips get a lot of hard use: they flex a lot and get hit into things, neither of which does anything much for their lifetime. It might even be brittle fracture following stress hardening.

I don't know what RHEL is running these days. I've had great luck streaming using Kaffeine (except that it does a terrible job of reconnecting if it loses the stream.)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

MP3 streams seem to do OK on my system with more than one player. For the KEXP archive, though, my choice is between Windows Media, which naturally doesn't exist for Linux, and Real, which until this week I thought was broken. It was only by clicking in desperation around the shrunken Real player that I discovered that it plays. A straight up Real audio link works fine, but KEXP's archive site does some SQL lookup and other funny business that gives me the shrunken player.