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In case you don't know, MPD allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. It is also makes a great desktop music player, especially if you are a console junkie, like frontend options, or restart X often.

MPD is just so cool. What makes it even better is that I am using phpMp to control the songs being played on my PC. There's also phpMp2, which has a better and nicer user interface design. And if you are a command-line junkie, there's mpc.

As a side note, if you encountered errors such as

problems getting ao_driver_info
you may not have permission to the audio device

edit /etc/mpd.conf and set ao_driver to "alsa09" and ao_driver_options to "dev=default".

In Position applied : System Administrator cum Secretary cum on your face... the great old uncle Alphademon posted samples of funny stuff that people write in their resumes. And no, he was not joking. In fact those are real excerpts or real resumes of real people that applied for a system administration job. The excerpts are in their original form, mistakes, spellings, grammars.

I for one, could not help laughing out loud when reading the resumes. I don't mean to be mean cause I don't mean to be mean cos I am not mean, but those are just plain bizarre.

So I went through 150 resumes applying for the job of system administrator, and here are the things that I found so wrong about the resumes, and the applicants. Yes, the applicants included because we all know that resume is a representative of your self - regardless of wether you are lying about your qualications and experience or not. Just think of resume as your personal PR.

• Using long sentences to describe experience and responsibilities. This is one of the most common problem that I've encountered. What is your resume? Your life-story? When describing your experience or responsibilities, use consice and clear words to construct consice and clear sentences that will convey to the reader exactly what you mean else the reader will have diffrent things in his mind like thinking of fish and carrots doing naughty things with rabbits and panda bear. Get what I mean? For example: responsible for designing, coding, and implementing invoice module.


• Poor grammar. Enough said.


• Including irrelevent experience in the resume. OK, so you did worked at McDonald's one summer in college seven years ago. So what does that have to do with the job of system administration that you are applying for now? Are you telling me that you are a good communicator? That you are good at customer service? Dude, the only good customer service that you will ever give to your prospective employee is your resume!


• Applying for jobs that does not match qualification/and or jobs that you have no previous experience at all. Again - I am not kidding. I've seen resumes of temporary English and Mathematics teachers applying for the position of System Administrator - and they don't have the experience at all. I've seen resumes of MCSEs who handled Windongs for the past two years but applying for a job where the skills required are Linux/*BSD and Open Source! Is the job market really bad out there? Are people really fed up with their current job/company and that they are applying for jobs that they nary have a chance of getting? No, they are just plain click-happy. They see the application, and click on Apply without a second thought.


• Applying for the same position from the same company but your damned application was rejected before. Yes - this happened. You see - if you are a HR manager using Jobstreet's SiVA engine, it has this feature where it can tell you wether this fella had applied and rejected before. And I encountered a few of those. *Sigh*.

There are tons of resume mistakes out there. These are just a few that I can highlight. Now, whoever's sending their resume to me, get a friend to review it for you. A bad resume, regardless or your experience, can cause you the dream job that you've been looking for.

Story here. The words in the background are Hacked by realloc.

Uh oh, got torrent, will blog. Blog Torrent. Blog Torrent is software that makes it much easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. Blog Torrent is easy to install on your website: we don't use MySQL so installation is as easy as uploading a folder to your web host, and all administration happens in the web interface. Blog Torrent is easy for users: even if they don't know what bittorrent is, they get an installer that downloads the file they want. But most of all, Blog Torrent makes publishing with bittorrent painless. Just click "upload", pick a file, and you're done. This is our preview release and it has a lot of bugs and rough edges... but we're smoothing them out for the next version, so stay tuned.

IMHO, blog torrent is the easiest way to get busted by RIAA or whatever-not if you're sharing MP3s. So, don't.

PST WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- A man was charged with stabbing two relatives after they allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner.

Police said the fight broke out Thursday when Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, and his 18-year-old son, Gonzalo Jr., reprimanded Frank Palacious for picking at the turkey with his fingers, instead of slicing off pieces with a knife.

Palacious, 24, described by police only as an uncle, allegedly responded by stabbing them with a carving knife.

He is charged with domestic assault and assault with intent to murder, Detective Sgt. Thomas R. Radula said.

Police said Ocasio Jr. suffered stab wounds to the chest, back and right side. A nursing supervisor at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center said Friday she had no information on his condition. His father was treated for a stab wound in his arm.