Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Oggbama (2009)

So Bush went, and Obama came in — even taking time to check on Bush before he left. But what was disappointing to me was the sheer lack of ways to watch the thing with free software.The official site used Microsoft Silverlight, and surprisingly, YouTube didn’t do a live feed. There were a couple of options floating around:* Install Moonlight (bleh!) — okay, so Moonlight is free software, but before you rush off and install it, know that you’ll have to click through on a Microsoft EULA to act

I have an Ogg player... I want some more though (2009)

I have an Ogg Player now. Finally. The one I plumped for is the Samsung U3 — a 2gb unit about the size of a packet of gum. My wife and I both got one in fact — $40 a pop from Fry’s electronics. (No, not that Fry)It works reasonably well with GNU/Linux — uses a silly MTP protocol instead of regular USB Mass Storage (UMS) — basically turning it into a regular USB drive. Apparently there is a way to flash it with some older firmware that switches it over to UMS, but you need a Windows XP machine