Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engender’d in the eyes,
With gazing fed;
and fancy dies, and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.

iTunes songs 20ct cheaper + chocolate

Originally uploaded by nermal0

Songs in the iTunes Store Australia normally cost AUD 1.69. This KitKat bar includes a voucher for a free song and is for sale for AUD 1.49 at Coles Supermarket. There is a 5 vouchers per iTunes account limit.

This scene from the Futurama episode “Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles”

was probably inspired by this picture of the Gargoyles of the Notre Dame.

To prevent certain file types from showing up in in svn status, run svn propedit svn:ignore . and add one file ignore pattern per line. Save, commit, done. Works just like .cvsignore.

To fix the whine, load a kernel extension that disables the C4 power management state on the Core Duo: ShhMBP. This, as any other whine fix, deteriorates battery life.

To silence the moo, get the widget from http://www.moofix.com/. It puts heavy load on the CPU when the temperature is in a certain “moo” window. This makes the fan spin constantly, stopping the moo. Not an ideal solution as the Macbook gets even hotter and it drains the battery.

Another possible moo fix is here.

Update: the SMC firmware update fixes the moo (for me).

XP recognizes the Firewire drive only once. To make it reappear, delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\1394.

Kevin Lim created a video showing off Parallels Workstation on a Mac running XP and Linux at the same time. To make it even better, he uses extremely cool “cube” desktop switching! Now this is a reason to buy a Mac…

DTS-WAV is a format found on DTS Audio CDs. It’s basically a hack, as it uses a standard WAV header to trick the CD player into playing the track, while the music format is DTS. The WAV header must be removed before the file can be played in Windows. I used the latest BeSplit beta for that:

BeSplit -core( -input DTS-Track-001.wav -output 001.dts -type dtswav -fix)

But how do I play it? PowerDVD used to work, but doesn’t anymore. VLC crashes. Foobar2000 does not (anymore) have a DTS plugin. I also tried the ASIO driver for Winamp and Foobar’s kernel device mode. Nothing puts out digital DTS to my stereo.

Media Player classic can downmix DTS to stereo or play it via S/PDIF. The problem: the output is not resampled from 44.1kHz to 48khz, which leads to high pitched voices.