[via RJ Anderson]

How many total songs?
3040 songs, 13.9 days, 23.32 GB

Sort by song title - first and last
'Aan de Oevers van de Tijd' by Spinvis [Dagen van Gras, Dagen van Stro]- '3121' by Prince [3121]

Sort by time - shortest and longest
00:00:08 'Evangelista - Und da die Engel von ihnen gen Himmel fuhren' by JS Bach [Weihnachsoratorium] - 01:17:53 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' by JK Rowling, read by Stephen Fry [Disc 8]

Sort by Album - first and last
'Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello' by Apocalyptica - '3121' by Prince

Sort by Artist - first and last
ABBA - Wouter Hamel

Top five played songs
Not counted

Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 7
Death: 42
Love: 178
You: 227
Home: 29
Boy: 13
Girl: 23

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
Not counted

Six months after moving in, I have finally decided what to do with the wide expanse of white wall behind my couch:



Four 30x30cm canvas prints, the four seasons

What is the start page of your browser?

Inspired by this Lifehacker post, I have decided to clean my keyboard(s) tonight. I'll even try to bring home my work keyboard (which is technically my own).

Grossed out by all these vivid descriptions and photos, my keyboards will be shiny and clean again!

Anyone interested in a step-by-step photo session?

Straight back from vacation, Michiel was at the ready to help me out with my computer - once again!

At work they had some screens (TFT) which were not used anymore. And voilà, dual screens.

Thanks Michiel!

When I bought my computer, I didn't chose the option to install an 'old-fashioned' 3" disc station. Who even uses those old fashioned plastic things?

That was before I cleaned a hardly-used cabinet, and I discovered about 15 years worth of 3" discs.

Some of these contain homework and essays from school and university. Others have detailed character sheets of some the RPG characters I've played. And the rest (more than half of them) are collections of fanfiction stories, almost all in the genre of P/C and J/C (read my fanfiction at caldosh.com).

What do you think?

Should I buy a 3" disc station?

Should it be external or internal?

It's the difference between €29,95 and €8,95.

The Tiscali network I use (BabyXL) was upgraded recently (all analogue lines, at least; they're working on ISDN) to ADSL2/2+ [dutch announcement]. I have been using my trusty Copperjet 810 modem since I first started using ADSL back in … 2001 I think. And my modem is not up to the high speeds of this era's internet. So I've been looking into buying a new ADSL 2/2+ modem.

Ha!

The stores seem to sell modems that can do everything (apart from making coffee), alongside being a modem. They offer WiFi, Router, Firewalls, DHCP and such.

I have no need for that! LOL, I have a server at home - installed by Michiel - that can do all that.

Right, the modem. Up to about 1 hr ago, I was the high bidder on the modem xs4all provides all their new customers, but somehow someone went over the amount I wanted to spend on a second hand modem.

Sigh.

New search has been fruitful - I found this one: SMC ADSL 7904BRA-NL (-EU)

Any ideas if it will work on a *nix/bsd system too?

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Thanks to the ever patient guidance of Michiel, I am continually learning about new tricks/programs on my computer.

This weekend I learned the basics of the following programs:

• vim [program] [howto]
• mutt [program] [howto]
• ncftp [program] [howto]

For those of you who know about *nix computers, you will realize that this is part of text-based computing.

Michiel has been trying to persuade me to use more text-based programs, but I never saw the need. Until I learned that at work, we will be using a webinterface of Microsoft's Sharepoint. This will mean more mousing and less shortcut keys.

And we all know that mousing equals RSI.

To avoid this, because I work with a computer not only at work, but at home as well (a lot!), I have decided to look into these text-based programs.

I have already learned that, although it is very different from mouse-based programs, I am enjoying the experience. Of course, without the help of Michiel, I would never have been able to use them as extensively as I am today - after only 3 days of using it!

If you want to learn more about these programs, click on the links behind them - one will be a direct link to the specific program, the other link will be for an easy and basic HowTo.