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Plenty of ads, popups, silly scrolling flash gadgets, bad punctuation, and no easy way to send in corrections. Why not apply to lyrics the same community-driven editing model that has made Wikipedia so successful?</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">LyricWiki.org has done exactly that, and more. They have provided an API, making it easy for media players to query the database and fetch the lyrics for a specific song. To get an idea of this project’s success, check out <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis#List_of_largest_MediaWiki_wikis">these stats</a>. At the time of this writing, LyricWiki is the fifth largest MediaWiki in existence, and the largest wiki that is not a Wikipedia or Wiktionary. What an inspiring example of a community built around the ideals of improving content and making information available. What could go wrong?</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/why-open-source-rocks-and-the-music-industry-does-not/#more-543" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> <div id="atatags-26942-6742dcd1637b6"></div> <script> __ATA.cmd.push(function() { __ATA.initDynamicSlot({ id: 'atatags-26942-6742dcd1637b6', location: 120, formFactor: '001', label: { text: 'Advertisements', }, creative: { reportAd: { text: 'Report this ad', }, privacySettings: { text: 'Privacy', } } }); }); </script> </div> <p class="postmetadata"> <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/speech_bubble.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/why-open-source-rocks-and-the-music-industry-does-not/#comments">12 Comments</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/documents.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/kde/" rel="category tag">KDE</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/linux/" rel="category tag">Linux</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/money/" rel="category tag">Money</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/programming/" rel="category tag">Programming</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/technology/" rel="category tag">Technology</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/thoughts/" rel="category tag">Thoughts</a> | Tagged: <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/amarok/" rel="tag">amarok</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/api/" rel="tag">api</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/bug/" rel="tag">bug</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/business/" rel="tag">business</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/copyright/" rel="tag">copyright</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/development/" rel="tag">development</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/industry/" rel="tag">industry</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/license/" rel="tag">license</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/licensing/" rel="tag">licensing</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/lyric/" rel="tag">lyric</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/lyrics/" rel="tag">lyrics</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/lyricwiki/" rel="tag">lyricwiki</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/mediawiki/" rel="tag">mediawiki</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/music-industry/" rel="tag">music industry</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/open/" rel="tag">open</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/open-source/" rel="tag">open source</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/planetkde/" rel="tag">planetkde</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/record-companies/" rel="tag">record companies</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/riaa/" rel="tag">riaa</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/stupidity/" rel="tag">stupidity</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/wiki/" rel="tag">wiki</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/wikipedia/" rel="tag">wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/wrong/" rel="tag">wrong</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/wtf/" rel="tag">wtf</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/permalink.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/why-open-source-rocks-and-the-music-industry-does-not/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Why Open Source Rocks (and the music industry does not)">Permalink</a> <br /><img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/figure_ver1.gif" alt="" /> Posted by Constantin </p> </div> <hr /> <div class="post-509 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-kde category-linux tag-acceleration tag-intel tag-kde tag-kubuntu tag-linux tag-plasma tag-slow tag-ubuntu tag-uxa tag-x11" id="post-509"> <h2><a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/slow-kde-plasma-on-intel-integrated-graphics/" rel="bookmark">Slow KDE / Plasma on Intel Integrated Graphics?</a></h2> <small>June 25, 2009</small><br /> <div class="entry"> <p style="text-align:justify;">Got a laptop with an Intel GMA? Is Alt+Tab slower than you would like? Does Plasma take forever to move or resize an applet? Maybe you didn’t think it could get better?</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Try playing with the options in <code>xorg.conf</code>. <a href="http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-Performance">This</a> is a good starting place.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">In my case <code>lspci</code> shows <em>‘Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42]’</em>, and putting</p> <blockquote><p>Option聽 “AccelMethod”聽聽 “UXA”</p></blockquote> <p style="text-align:justify;">in <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code> has improved things significantly. UXA acceleration has been <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting">disabled by default in Ubuntu</a> because it caused problems for some people, but in my case enabling it has made everything snappier, and also gotten rid of the drawing artifacts I used to see.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">It also caused suspend to stop working (assert in X upon waking), but a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/347587/comments/21">recent fix</a> to <code>xserver-xorg-video-intel</code> takes care of that. Distros might have released an update by now, but if you’re using Kubuntu and can’t wait, you can grab the packages from <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/">this ppa</a>.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Snappy plasma, working suspend, happy user.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Update:</strong> Here is <a href="http://kdemonkey.blogspot.com/2009/05/konsole-under-jaunty.html">a post with another trick</a>, using the <code>-graphicssystem raster</code> option of Qt programs. It makes switching tabs in Konsole faster, and it does wonders for long lines in Kate!</p> <div id="atatags-370373-6742dcd164742"> <script type="text/javascript"> __ATA.cmd.push(function() { __ATA.initVideoSlot('atatags-370373-6742dcd164742', { sectionId: '370373', format: 'inread' }); }); </script> </div> </div> <p class="postmetadata"> <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/speech_bubble.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/slow-kde-plasma-on-intel-integrated-graphics/#comments">1 Comment</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/documents.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/kde/" rel="category tag">KDE</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/linux/" rel="category tag">Linux</a> | Tagged: <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/acceleration/" rel="tag">acceleration</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/intel/" rel="tag">intel</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/kde/" rel="tag">KDE</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/kubuntu/" rel="tag">kubuntu</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" rel="tag">Linux</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/plasma/" rel="tag">plasma</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/slow/" rel="tag">slow</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu/" rel="tag">ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/uxa/" rel="tag">uxa</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/x11/" rel="tag">x11</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/permalink.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/slow-kde-plasma-on-intel-integrated-graphics/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Slow KDE / Plasma on Intel Integrated Graphics?">Permalink</a> <br /><img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/figure_ver1.gif" alt="" /> Posted by Constantin </p> </div> <hr /> <div class="post-398 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogging category-blogroll category-kde category-life category-programming category-random tag-away tag-code tag-coding tag-domain tag-hosting tag-magic tag-news tag-theme tag-update" id="post-398"> <h2><a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/disorder/" rel="bookmark">Disorder</a></h2> <small>May 7, 2008</small><br /> <div class="entry"> <p>Sorry about the mess I currently made of this blog. I updated the <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/code/">Code section</a> (aka. Magic) and had to create a separate post for every config file that was listed there. The news here is:</p> <ul> <li>I’ve become maintainer of the KCharSelect widget/utility app in KDE. I haven’t done much besides bragging yet, but I have some bug fixes (before <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Release_Schedule">4.1</a>) and features in mind.</li> <li>With a little luck (and a lot of free time if I find it), I will begin porting <a href="http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/">Filelight</a> to KDE 4.</li> </ul> <p>In other weakly related news:</p> <ul> <li>Theme change. Opinions?</li> <li>Blogroll updated. Forget common sense.</li> <li>I won’t be home until Monday. I’m going to make an ass of myself <em>again</em> in front of the unbeatable Romanian contestants at the <a href="http://campion.edu.ro/index.php">.Campion</a> final round <img src="https://i0.wp.com/faq.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif" alt="" /></li> <li>I’ve been pondering whether I should finally get my own domain + paid hosting soon. I decided that it’s not yet the time, since except for a few gotchas (can only upload certain file types, can’t change CSS), I’ve been really happy with the WordPress.com service.</li> </ul> <p>Now, if this post is not random, than I don’t know what is! <img src="https://i0.wp.com/faq.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt="" /></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"> <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/speech_bubble.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/disorder/#comments">1 Comment</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/documents.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/blogging/" rel="category tag">Blogging</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/blogroll/" rel="category tag">Blogroll</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/kde/" rel="category tag">KDE</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/life/" rel="category tag">Life</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/programming/" rel="category tag">Programming</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/random/" rel="category tag">Random</a> | Tagged: <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/away/" rel="tag">away</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/code/" rel="tag">code</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/coding/" rel="tag">coding</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/domain/" rel="tag">domain</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/hosting/" rel="tag">hosting</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/magic/" rel="tag">magic</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/news/" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/theme/" rel="tag">theme</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/update/" rel="tag">update</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/permalink.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/disorder/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Disorder">Permalink</a> <br /><img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/figure_ver1.gif" alt="" /> Posted by Constantin </p> </div> <hr /> <div class="post-379 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-kde category-linux category-programming category-technology tag-audio tag-audio-books tag-code tag-conversion tag-gpl tag-konvert2ogg tag-mp3 tag-ogg tag-ogg-vorbis tag-open-source tag-project tag-qt tag-software tag-sound" id="post-379"> <h2><a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/konvert2ogg-02-is-here/" rel="bookmark">Konvert2Ogg 0.2 is here</a></h2> <small>March 21, 2008</small><br /> <div class="entry"> <p>Finally,</p> <p>after a complete redesign,</p> <p>and a complete code rewrite,</p> <p>released under a full moon,</p> <p>feature-complete and usable,</p> <p>[drum roll],</p> <p>[fireworks],</p> <p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=198617&package_id=235869&release_id=586052">Konvert2Ogg 0.2</a> is here.</p> <p align="right"><a href="http://konvert2ogg.sourceforge.net/">(updated) Home page</a><br /> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/konvert2ogg/">SourceForge.net project page</a><br /> <a href="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=77365">KDE-Apps.org page</a></p> <p>I am especially thrilled about what I’ve learned while developing this project:</p> <ul> <li>How to implement a factory in C++, so that when I want to add a new class, I don’t need to add references to it all over the place.</li> <li>As a bonus, make that factory a singleton ;)</li> <li>Lots of things about Qt, KDE, and even svn, XHTML and CSS, that I could only learn hands-on. (too many to list)</li> <li>I even fixed some bugs / made some improvements to kdelibs while working on K2O!</li> <li>Probably a bunch of other stuff I am forgetting right now.</li> </ul> <p>Although the program now works and does what I want, this is no way the end of the journey. There are many more cool things in the can :D</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata"> <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/speech_bubble.gif" alt="" /> <span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Konvert2Ogg 0.2 is here</span></span> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/documents.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/kde/" rel="category tag">KDE</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/linux/" rel="category tag">Linux</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/programming/" rel="category tag">Programming</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/technology/" rel="category tag">Technology</a> | Tagged: <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/audio/" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/audio-books/" rel="tag">audio books</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/code/" rel="tag">code</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/conversion/" rel="tag">conversion</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/gpl/" rel="tag">gpl</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/konvert2ogg/" rel="tag">konvert2ogg</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/mp3/" rel="tag">mp3</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/ogg/" rel="tag">ogg</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/ogg-vorbis/" rel="tag">ogg vorbis</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/open-source/" rel="tag">open source</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/project/" rel="tag">project</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/qt/" rel="tag">qt</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/software/" rel="tag">software</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/tag/sound/" rel="tag">sound</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/permalink.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/konvert2ogg-02-is-here/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Konvert2Ogg 0.2 is here">Permalink</a> <br /><img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/figure_ver1.gif" alt="" /> Posted by Constantin </p> </div> <hr /> <div class="post-368 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-kde category-learning category-linux category-programming category-random category-screenshots tag-qt tag-school" id="post-368"> <h2><a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/people-born-today-age-four-times-slower/" rel="bookmark">People born today age four times slower.</a></h2> <small>February 29, 2008</small><br /> <div class="entry"> <p>In other completely random news:</p> <ul> <li>School’s out for a week!</li> <li>Konvert2Ogg, the KDE project I’m working on, has a new mission statement and code and GUI design. I am especially satisfied with the way the singleton / object factory (as taught by <a href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0201704315">Alexandrescu</a>) has turned out. With the factory and the base classes in place, adding support for Oggenc took only a few minutes.<br /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/k2o-for-blog.png" title="k2o-for-blog.png"><img src="https://ascending.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/k2o-for-blog.thumbnail.png?w=450" alt="k2o-for-blog.png" /></a><br /> Wait for version 0.2 sometime in the next few weeks.</li> </ul> </div> <p class="postmetadata"> <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/speech_bubble.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/people-born-today-age-four-times-slower/#comments">1 Comment</a> | <img src="https://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/contempt/images/blog/documents.gif" alt="" /> <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/kde/" rel="category tag">KDE</a>, <a href="https://ascending.wordpress.com/category/learning/" rel="category tag">Learning</a>, <a 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