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Monthly Archives: June 2007
No iPhone; make it a uPhone
I watched all the great media hype on the phone. Read a few tests like at gizmodo on it and also read Setuid’s blog enty on its limitations. The iPhone sounds kinda cool and it has some attractions; but I … Continue reading
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Command Line tools that make it easy
I like to find tools which make tasks like creating mp3 files easy. There is sound-juicer which comes packaged with gnome; but by default it will not create mp3 files. Here is the way to make it work with sound-juicer … Continue reading
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RSS Reading on Linux
Call it perhaps laziness or desire to see a few different pieces of news in one place. I get very accustomed to just reading news from blogs and news sites in a central tool that can manage, integrate with firefox … Continue reading
Losing Weight – Gaining Age
For the past 6 weeks, I’ve been dieting. Here is the scenario. I’m getting older and started having a few different ailments like really bad lower back aches that seemed resistant to the usual treatments. Since I am participating in … Continue reading
Pausing to Reflect…
I was talking with Setuid on IRC when a question he asked prompted me to start remembering things. He had asked for a name for a Debian virtual system and wanted a famous anthropologist/archeologist’s name. I skittered around for a … Continue reading
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There are big tools; then there are the little ones
I tend to think that some of the big things in Linux and especially Debian are cool. Like the entire philosophy of it, the meaning of it and the quality of the distribution (s) that are out there. That’s a … Continue reading
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Gnome 2.16 questions and quests
So here I am with the Gnome 2.16 backport on Etch on a Thinkpad T40. Its the same laptop that had Ubuntu on it that I tired of earlier and my longer term report is that acpi suspend and hibernate … Continue reading
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Yahoo! as the home page
I’ve been looking at the level of customization lately on Yahoo as far as modules and matching it up against what I can get with igoogle. My igoogle has an array of widgets that do a variety of things. My … Continue reading
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iTunes Plus Music playback
I spent a bit of last evening and this morning very early making Linux play AAC files that I grabbed from iTunes Plus. These are not DRM’ed but it still was challenging to get the music players to actually play … Continue reading
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iTunes 7.2 and ipod corruption
I’ve never really liked iTunes but as I’ve blogged before, I’ve gotten spoiled in being able to get my music fix. I still have to run it through a reverse DRM application called SoundTaxi to make the music the way … Continue reading
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