kepstin

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What, you were expecting me to put something here? Well, I guess I should say hi…

I’m Calvin Walton (kepstin is my internet handle), a fan of various sorts of Linux, Photography, the programming languages C and Perl, Japanese Anime and pop music, etc. Currently employed by Blindside Networks, where I’m working on the BigBlueButton open-source project. You can find me in Ottawa, Ontario. (Canada, if you didn’t know.)

Also find me on social network pages and other sites around the internet: check out the list on my Links page.

  • Best Anison from Summer 2013

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    Here’s just a quick list of the songs that I felt were particularly great this season: The WATAMOTE opening: 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い by 鈴木このみ n’ キバオブアキバ. It sure wasn’t what I normally expect, but it works perfectly. The KINMOZA! opening: Jumping!! by Rhodanthe* (anime cast). It sounds suspiciously similar to some of my favourite Doujin music… because…

  • Windows 8 Benchmarking Timing?

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    It’s kind of curious that there’s a bit of a ruckus going on with regards to benchmarking accuracy on Windows 8. From what I’ve heard, the actual cause of the inaccuracy is quite simple: Windows 8 appears to use the processor’s TSC as a timing source on modern processors. There is absolutely nothing wrong with…

  • Migrated to WordPress

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    So, my site is now looking a little different from how it used to. I’ve actually changed how I’m hosting the service, completely. My original site was on Google Sites via my Google Apps account, but I’ve never really been satisfied with Google Sites and the limited control that was offered. So I took the…

  • Network UPS Tools (nut) and systemd

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    Thanks to the Fedora developers, nut does actually ship some unit files for systemd. Unfortunately, those unit files provide a somewhat minimal functionality, with fairly fixed startup order and without taking advantage of systemd’s unit activation features. This caused some problems when I was building my new server a while back. This new machine is…

  • Release version 1.0.0! (And 1.0.1, you know, because)

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    There is now an official release version (or two) of the image-id tool! This release is the final result of both porting image-id to use the latest 2.0 API version of libmirage, and adding support for reading MCN and ISRC numbers from disc images. There is some work in progress that might allow these to…

  • Summer 2013

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    I have now rejoined the ranks of the anime-watching, I guess! Here’s the list of things that I care about in the upcoming season. Expect this page to change over the course of the season. Just to note, this list is way absurdly too long. I wonder what I’m going to end up dropping. Continued…

  • No More Google Reader: Part 2, The Old Reader

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    This project has actually been around for quite a while now; the name comes from it being a clone of “the old Google Reader”, prior to the removal of the social features. As I mentioned in the introduction, I never actually used those features—so we’ll just see how it goes as a RSS reader application.…

  • No More Google Reader: Part 1, Feedly

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    Feedly is the first in the list of cloud RSS reader software that I’m taking a look at as a replacement for Google Reader (see the Introduction for the index of all the parts.) Somewhat ironically, Feedly might be at least indirectly responsible for Google Reader’s shutdown. It’s been around for quite a while, but…

  • Well, So Much for That

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    I haven’t really watched any anime series as they came out in ages, so I guess you could say this page is dead. Maybe some day when I have more time, the Anime Tierlist will rise again.

  • No More Google Reader: Introduction

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    Like many other people online, I’m a heavy user of the Google Reader application now left to find some replacement for this aggregator of interesting news that I’ve subscribed to. I know that Reader had some social features at some point, but I’ve never actually used them. There was a single thing that I valued…

  • A MusicBrainz report on Pseudo-Releases

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    As an implementation of support for translating or transliterating the tracklists on foreign releases, MusicBrainz has something called “Pseudo-Releases.” They are meant to be used alongside the database entry for the original, real release to contain alternate tracklists. Unfortunately, many MusicBrainz users weren’t quite sure on when the “Pseudo-Release” status should be used, and incorrectly…

  • MusicBrainz contributions – Search result and stats improvements.

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    I’m pleased to see that two of my MusicBrainz contributions have been merged in time for the 2012-01-26 server update, and are now live on the site! The first change isn’t exactly visible to the naked eye, but it should hopefully provide improvements in the Google Search result listings for MusicBrainz artist pages by providing…