Archive for January, 2009

The meaning of life

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

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En renessanse for EM-DASH?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

NRK har åpenbart besluttet å bruke noe så uvanlig som EM-DASH eller “lang tankestrek” (—) i overskriften om det tragiske sjalusidramaet som endte med at en poltimann skjøt eks-samboeren sin: “— Ingen varselklokker ringte.” Er dette nye toner fra ekspertkonsulenter i web-typografi?

Ubuntu: How I copied my music collection to one folder

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

I had some trouble findig out how to copy all files from all subdirectories of my music collection into one folder. The reason why I want to do this is to be able to play my music on a Playstation 3. I am presently a happy Ubuntu-user (Ubuntu 8.04 or “Hardy Heron”), and it took me some time to find a solution in the Ubuntu Forums:

Open bash (a terminal) and type:

find /music/path  -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} cp "{}" /desitination/path/ --verbose

You must obviously adapt “/music/path” and “/desitination/path/” to your needs. Please don’t ask me to explain the details of this command… (If you are moving your collection to a PS3 then you’ll have to copy all music files to one folder “MUSIC” on an external harddisk or USB pen drive. Then your PS3 will discover the music when the disk is attached to its USB-port.)

Du skal bli husket for det du bygger, ikke det du ødelegger

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Det er god retorikk dette, men det stemmer ikke. Er det noen som tror at Bin Laden ikke kommer til å bli husket for De to tårn?