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Yep, that’s right - We need you!

Radio Amarok is currently in it’s Research and Development phase, and we’re looking for Artists to showcase on the station.

Radio Amarok will be broadcasting live 24/7 - and dedicated to playing the best in free music! So if you have a band and want to get yourselves out there, then please get in  contact!

You can find us in #amarok.radio on freenode, or you can email me on mez .AT. radioamarok .DOT. com

Please note that we will not accept artists who are not willing to do one or more of the following

• Release their work under a Creative Commons Licence
• Sign a Waiver for Royalty + Dubbing Fees for use on Radio Amarok
• Sign with Magnatune

So if you’re a new and upcoming artist, or know of someone who is, the please do get in contact! (and feel free to pass this onto your musical friends!)

Also - the Easter Egg at the Easter Egg Archive

Ok, so I moved to Reading last Sunday to start a job here… I’m now working with vBulletin as a developer… which is cool.. and uber and stuff, cause it’s the kind of Job I went to University to get into (before I dropped out because of debt!)

However, now it’s the weekend, I’m not at work, and have nothing to do and noone to do it with.

Ah well, time to drink my vodka and then go invade the local Rock Bar

“For Example. I can see my own privates”

From xkcd

Ok, now it seems that I can play videos in Xine.. but not in kaffeine I managed to do this by switching to openGl mode ni Xine itself… however, kaffeine won’t allow me to do that.

Any ideas? (It’s good, I can now watch my movies!-  but I prefer Kaffeine’s GUI!)

It seems that since I’ve started using gutsy, my PC does not want to play (well, display) any video files played through xine. Which is very very very very annoying. It worked fine originally in fesity, then, when I upgraded to gutsy, the video I wanted to watch decided not to play (and OGG/Theora video)

Then, due to issues, It still won’t play. I’ve tried everything, adn xine itself isn’t thtrowing up anything in the log that’s making me think it’s an issue with that.

Does anyone have any ideas, or would anyone be able to tell me where to look to sort this out? I’ve been all over my xorg.conf, the Xine settings, all to no avail.

Any help would be muchly appreciated! This seems to be one of the only problems I’m, having with gutsy atm!)

Ok, so recently, I thought that my status as an ubuntu developer had expired, as I’ve had emails about my membership to ubuntu-dev expiring, and when I tried to send an email to a list in ubuntu (kubuntu-devel) it got bounced back to me. Now of course, I thought that the bounce was because the list was restricted for posting to developers only (as is ubuntu-devel)

I finally got a hold of a member of the Ubuntu Technical Board (thanks keybuk!) who explained to me..

<Keybuk> ubuntu-dev is a dead team
<Keybuk> rather than reject everyone, we’re just letting the membership expire naturally
<Keybuk> motu is the active “universe upload” team

So I then went to look what was going on with my email.

As my ubuntu email recieves a HUGE amount of traffic. (I dread to think but just checked and it seems I’ve had ~15000 emails go through it since march… a lot less than I’d expected) I have it setup in launchpad to go through a gmail account which means that I don’t overload my own server (as I was doing before when I hadn’t learnt to tweak my mailserver so it’s settings didn’tput my server into swap death!)

I was also sending outgoing email from my ubuntu email address through gmail’s smtp service.

However, it seems recently, that gmail will now rewrite an email address if it isn’t the one you’re sending through. If I send an email as if it’s coming from mez@ubuntu.com, then gmail’s smtp server will rewrite it so that it comes from mez.ubuntu@gmail.com…

I’ve now changed my email setup to use my server for all outgoing mail.

Ok, so for years, and years, I’ve used Mozilla Firefox (Firebird, etc etc!) as I’ve always liked that it was more secure, it was FLOSS etc etc.

Well anyway, after having spent a lot of time recently at Omega Sektor where I’ve had to use Opera (simply because their Firefox install is broken and I hate Internet Explorer!) I’ve come across a few features I’ve liked in it.. (Speed Dial - the fact that a popup without a URL bar has a lil thing giving the web site address across the top)… so I’ve decided to try it at home…

The install was smooth (sudo dpkg -i opera*.deb) and It’s working nicely.

I’ll probably end up either loving or hating it in the next few days, but we can only see how things go!

I’m looking for Developers who are experienced in the following fields, and have some time on their hand to possibly work on a new project I’ve had an idea for.

• Jabber/XMPP
• Linux/Windows Cross Compatibility
• Streaming Audio
• SIP/Similar Technologies
• Jack or Similar/Windows Equivalent

The concept is based around an online radio station management system, allowing DJs flawless integration with each other to allow seamless changeovers, multiple DJs etc etc.

Please feel free to contact me on martin AT sourceguru DOT net if you’re interested and would like to know more.