December 15, 2009 – 22:55
If you want to use the Sky Songs download client in Linux (say Ubuntu or Debian), just paste the following into a file called skysongs in $HOME/bin and then chmod a+x it: cd $SKY_SONGS_DIR; /usr/bin/java -cp . -jar downloader.jar $* Note, $SKY_SONGS_DIR should be changed to your installation directory. If you used wine to install [...]
When it comes to music distribution, we’re in slightly controversial times. You’re deemed a criminal if you copy your CD to your PC or portable media device so you can listen on the train. You’re — rightly or wrongly — breaking the law when you download your favourite track from the various distribution methods such [...]
Having purchased my awesome Sony X-Series and begun getting it to work with Linux, I was eager to begin using the OLED display to its full potential. Namely, video and lots of it. Most portable devices support the WMV and MPEG codecs and the X-series is no exception (WMV with/without DRM and MPEG-4, plus H.264 [...]
Update: if you need to copy videos to your device with Linux, follow my transcoding howto post. So I ended up having to purchase a new portable media player. I’d been used to my aged Samsung YP-Z MP3 player for a while with a broken screen; memorising the various menu selections to get where I [...]
Run update-manager -c (not -d anymore, that’s for development releases) in a shell/terminal. This is handy if you don’t get the upgrade button.
February 16, 2009 – 23:30
or, “What happened to VboxAddIf?!” I decided to upgrade to Virtualbox 2.1 the other day as I wanted to keep up to date. It’s a great bit of software. One of the VMs I use regularly runs Debian and serves as a development environment and a nagios server for monitoring the various sites I host [...]
I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to this mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c: 35 char daysbuf[15]; 36 if (days > 100) { 37 sprintf(daysbuf, “%d days(!), “, days); 38 } else if (days > 1) { 39 [...]
