Taming QuickTime X

Did QuickTime X take you by surprise? Still need Pro-features in QT? Here’s my fix which sorts out all my QT problems on SL (OS X 10.6).
First thing I did was to install QuickTime Player 7 from optional installs on the SL CD. Then I can always open with QT 7. For most uses this [...]

Music recognition #2

Sometime in the mid eighties, between 1984 and 1987, NRK radio P2 broadcast a suspense/horror radio play Easter special in four parts called Skrekkyllinger. What I’m looking for is the theme music used in that series. It’s from an LP so it’s not composed for the series. Hope someone can identify this:
Excerpt of unknown music.

Adobe still messes up cases

Adobe Flash CS4 still has upper/lower case mess-ups in file paths. We upgraded from 8 to CS4 at work but that obviously didn’t help.
Here’s a typical error message:
An error occurred opening file ‘/Users/test/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration//JavaScript/DeployVideo.jsfl’

You fix it by renaming the directory …/Javascript to …/JavaScript (with a capital S).

Who’s doing this rotten programming? Also note the [...]

Help me identify this track, plz

Ok. This is something I heard as a kid. It was on one of my dad’s home made tapes (audio cassette, you know) together with ELO’s “Rain is Falling” (from “Time”), “Ai no corrica” (not sure what version) and Sheena Easton’s “9 to 5“. So the tape is from around 1980/81. It’s a five-and-a-half minute [...]

Debian to the rescue

I’ve been trying to install the latest Ubuntu (7.04) on a spare comp at work — with no luck. It looks like the installer can’t find my cd-rom (earlier ubuntus works great on it). Anyway; I now had a chance to try out the new Debian Etch. Worked like charm :-)

OOo language quick ref

Ok, I’m constantly forgetting how to do the document, paragraph and word language settings in open office (for the spellchecker). So here it is (courtesy of Russell Butler).
To obtain the relevant dictionaries, go to
File > Wizards > Install new dictionaries
and download the ones you want.
To set the default language for your installation, go to
Tools [...]

Flash 9

I den grad man skal anbefale folk å installere proprietære saker og ting…
“T” wanted to play Conquer Antarctica yesterday - which turns out to be a flash game requiring a >7 flash player version. Besides, I were a bit tired of not being able to watch my students’ flash attempts on my favourite linux [...]

Hello world!

Well, I guess it was about time. Have been thinking about this since… forever. Never could decide what system to use or if I’d attempt something on my own ;-) It is PHP but at least it’s free (u know what i mean; unlike MT), and it feels ok. At the moment I’m running it [...]