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Notes on PRK eye surgery.
So, about 5 weeks ago, I went in for PRK eye surgery, and now that there has been some time to heal and see the results, I thought I’d write a blog post about it to let people know how it went. There seems to be a lot of interest about the procedure out there on the internet, so I’m hoping someone finds this useful, if not at least an interesting read.
UPnP AV streaming in Ubuntu with a D-Link DNS-323
I’m writing this little tutorial because I couldn’t find the info nicely laid out anywhere else on the web.
So, about month ago I bought myself a D-Link DNS-323 NAS device. So far, it’s been pretty awesome (after I upgraded the firmware, at least), allowing for networked RAID-1, a built-in iTunes server, print server and streaming UPnP AV support, all for a pretty decent price. The first three on those list are a snap to set up, the fourth is a little more cryptic. UPnP, as far as I can tell, is usually meant to be used with a media server (something like a MythTV setup), rather than just for desktop users. I found very little info about how to connect to and play content from a UPnP AV server using a desktop software client. I did find, however, mention of djmount, a utility that allows you to mount a UPnP AV server’s content as a filesystem. Sounds great! However, getting it set up and functioning on my Ubuntu box was still anything but straight-forward. Here’s how I did it in Feisty.
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A plea for help
Someone please release a decent scintilla based text-editor for OS X. Please? I’ve tried everything (and I mean everything), and nothing comes close to being as good as Notepad++. Komodo Edit comes really close, but it uses 60mb+ of RAM to do what Notepad++ or SciTE can do in <10mb. Plus, honestly, it’s kind of buggy, and no one needs buggy in their everyday work cycle.
I really wish I knew how to do desktop app development myself, because I am totally motivated to have this.
