Category: Computer Tech

For this interested in online shared calendars, take a look at 30boxes and a new blogging tool for Firefox is available at Performancing – I’ll be trying this out during next week and give some feedback on whether they’re any good or not. – Blogger Jogger

KDE Audio Converters

Mar 15, 2006

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Found a promising audio converter for KDE in the form of soundKonverter currently at 0.2rc1. Doing some wav to mp3 conversions and this works great – next some mp3 to ogg and vice versa. Klira is in fact simpler but I can’t seem to get the variable option to work. Oh I’ve also got Slackware…

Amarok 1.4beta2 Part 2

Mar 14, 2006

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Well I got this installed but couldn’t understand why I kept on getting errors trying to play my mp3’s with the gstreamer engine until I realised that mp3 support is not included as a plugin by default – you need to go to the Fluendo site and download it there. Anyhow my xine engine with…

Amarok 1.4beta2

Mar 14, 2006

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After running Amarok 1.4beta1 for the last 2 weeks and been quite impressed, I decided to go ahead and do the Amarok 1.4beta2 thing. Interesting note in the release notes: support for aRts and gstreamer 0.8 is removed – this should be interesting!!! So downloaded gstreamer 0.10.4 and associated plugin packages and gst-plugins-base needs liboil…

Web-based Jukebox

Mar 11, 2006

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For those looking for a web-based alternative to music jukeboxes, take a look at Jinzora – some neat features including lyrics and album cover downloads. – Music for the Masses

Clustering

Feb 9, 2006

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A short article on clustering Chinese style – Rocks – May the Cluster be with you

Lighttpd proxy/web server

Feb 9, 2006

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If you need to serve static and cgi web files at super high speed, then give lighttpd a try – it can also act used through apache’s proxy module … – May the Web be with you

Turntables

Jan 25, 2006

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I’ve embarked on the interesting project of trying to find a reasonable turntable on which to listen to all my ‘old’ vinyl lp’s – I’ve so far come up with the Stanton T.50 ( belt-drive ) and T.60 ( direct-drive ), and then the Gemini TT-01 ( belt-drive ) and TT-02 ( direct-drive ). The…

PVR Madness

Jan 22, 2006

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Take a look at SnapStream’s Godzilla PVR – talk about taking PVRs to the extreme: 11 Tuners and 6 Hard Disks … – The Bog Monster Returns

Web Server Update

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Just updated my web server to Apache 2.0.55/php 5.1.2/mod_perl 2.0.2 – always have to keep up with the patches … – Lost In Cape Town

Linux Podcasts

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For those interested in podcasts and linux, take a look at the following 2 feeds: 1. Linux Link Tech Show http://www.thelinuxlink.net/tllts/tllts_ogg.rss 2. GNU/Linux User Show http://linuxuser.thepodcastnetwork.com/feed/ I’ve been using amarok for my music library software for a long time and it’s surprisingly good at doing podcasts as well. – Funky Rat

Benchmarking Unix filesystems

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Quite interesting in this Linux Gazette piece is that ext3/2 is now quicker in most scenarios than ReiserFS 3 or 4 when using the 2.6.14.4 kernel. Seeing as I’ve had some corruption problems with ReiserFS 3, I’ve decided to move my data partitions to ext3 and I’m running 2.6.15 with Con Kolivas’ patches so let’s…

WordPress Install

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