While I've tried a few different music players on the various smartphones I've owned since first buying a HTC Desire HD, I've always returned to WinAmp - a player I've used on various PCs I've owned and used since first year in college.
However, recently it refused to open, and I had to trial other players, none of which I found as good.
Fortunately it seems my plight is not unique, and at least three other users on the winamp forum had the same issue, and it has a simple solution - enable Airplane mode, then open the WinAmp app, and disable lyrics mode, then resume playback!
Thanks Spriz and habumach on the WinAmp forums for this solution - http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=3009519
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The morning after the championship before
In the aftermath of Ireland's second Six Nations win, my thoughts have turned to the World Cup in 2015. With the retirement of Brian O'Driscoll, the management are faced with the unenviable task of replacing Ireland's greatest ever player, and with a limited amount of games in which to do it before the World Cup kicks off. The forthcoming summer tour to Argentina
will be the first opportunity to do so, but after a long season is not
the best time to evaluate weary players.
This leaves us with the autumn internationals and the 2015 Six Nations championship to unearth a new thirteen. Is that enough gametime to adequately prepare for a World Cup?
While this season's championship has provided Brian O'Driscoll a far more fitting ending to his international career than the 2013 Lions tour, had he retired then we would already have identified this player, and he would be facing into the World Cup next year with two championships behind him, instead of one.
Although Schmidt's reign is still very much in its infancy, I have noticed one troubling statistic - his team score very few points in the second half of games against stronger opposition. Against Australia, Ireland only troubled the scoreboard with a single penalty after half time, against New Zealand we failed to register a single point in the second 40 minutes. Against England and France, we only scored 10 points after half time in both games, and only two tries. Indeed, the boys in green failed to register a score after the 55th minute in both games, while the opposition ran in 13 and 10 points, respectively.
While Jonathan Sexton finished the championship as top points scorer, the abiding memory of the final game against France was a missed conversion and penalty that, while not having an impact on the final score, brought back memories of the infamous missed penalty against the All Blacks in Aviva stadium in November which would have given Schmidt's side a win against the only team Ireland have yet to register a victory against in test rugby. These misses have again raised questions about his mettle in high pressure situations.
Compare that with England, who have a settled side, a victory over New Zealand in November, beat the Six Nations champions Ireland, and would have won the Grand Slam, were it not for a late try and conversion by the French. For these reasons, along with home advantage, I believe England are going to win the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
This leaves us with the autumn internationals and the 2015 Six Nations championship to unearth a new thirteen. Is that enough gametime to adequately prepare for a World Cup?
While this season's championship has provided Brian O'Driscoll a far more fitting ending to his international career than the 2013 Lions tour, had he retired then we would already have identified this player, and he would be facing into the World Cup next year with two championships behind him, instead of one.
Although Schmidt's reign is still very much in its infancy, I have noticed one troubling statistic - his team score very few points in the second half of games against stronger opposition. Against Australia, Ireland only troubled the scoreboard with a single penalty after half time, against New Zealand we failed to register a single point in the second 40 minutes. Against England and France, we only scored 10 points after half time in both games, and only two tries. Indeed, the boys in green failed to register a score after the 55th minute in both games, while the opposition ran in 13 and 10 points, respectively.
While Jonathan Sexton finished the championship as top points scorer, the abiding memory of the final game against France was a missed conversion and penalty that, while not having an impact on the final score, brought back memories of the infamous missed penalty against the All Blacks in Aviva stadium in November which would have given Schmidt's side a win against the only team Ireland have yet to register a victory against in test rugby. These misses have again raised questions about his mettle in high pressure situations.
Compare that with England, who have a settled side, a victory over New Zealand in November, beat the Six Nations champions Ireland, and would have won the Grand Slam, were it not for a late try and conversion by the French. For these reasons, along with home advantage, I believe England are going to win the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Thursday, February 06, 2014
Car theft
You know, if I park my car in an area known for car damage and theft, and leave valuables in the passenger seat (say my mobile phone, CDs/DVDs or a tablet) then I have to accept part of the blame when my car is broken into and my valuables stolen.
When certain choices and actions are widely known to lead to a given conclusion in a large number of circumstances, then the owner of those choices and actions really should give time and effort into rethinking them.
Read into that what you will, I just don't want my car to be broken into.
When certain choices and actions are widely known to lead to a given conclusion in a large number of circumstances, then the owner of those choices and actions really should give time and effort into rethinking them.
Read into that what you will, I just don't want my car to be broken into.
Monday, January 20, 2014
KDE Dolphin - the process for the mtp protocol died suddenly
Suddenly started getting this error in Dolphin on my kubuntu 13.10 machine when connecting my Samsung Galaxy S3 - "the process for the mtp protocol died suddenly"
A quick google gave this result - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1242357 - with the same error message, however the solution to disable USB debugging did not work, as it was already disabled.
However, disabling developer options completely solved the problem. The only issue now is - what do I do when I'm developing an app and want to deploy it to my phone?
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