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Encode and sync music to your portable music player in linux

Admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:40:07 +0000

My music collection is composed of different formats .mp3, ogg, aac but i want to sync everyone of them as mp3 to my Nokia e71. This is where .is_audio_player comes in, nope its not an application, nope its not a codec, its not a library either. its just a file (yeah file) its a file you place in the root directory of the storage of your music device from where it does its magic.

Open Source Ham – Is that like free range chicken?

Admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:09:33 +0000

If you have not stopped by the #linuxjournal IRC channel yet, I would encourage you to do so. You never know who you will meet or what sort of new ideas will germinate. For example: the other day, while having !coffee and a danish, I was chatting with our fearless Editor-in-Geek, Carlie, and she was commenting that someone had left the radio on. No, not that radio, the Amateur radio. This got my attention as I was not aware Carlie had her ticket (she does not – I am working on her – browbeating is the term my XYL uses, but I digress). As many of you know, I too am an Amateur Radio operator – a ham. [I should note that personally, I don't like the term...it does not mean anything, but it is what most folks know us as so...]. And we started chatting.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 13-Sept-2009

Admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:13 +0000

LXer Feature: 14-Sept-2009

Ubuntu Gaming made easy with PlayDeb

Admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:01:42 +0000

Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu – aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format. This article show you how to install Game from playdeb.net on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope.

This week at LWN: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Jonathan Corbet — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:30:34 +0000

Technologies such as filesystem journaling (as used with ext3) or RAID are generally adopted with the purpose of improving overall reliability. Some system administrators may thus be a little disconcerted by a recent linux-kernel thread suggesting that, in some situations, those technologies can actually increase the risk of data loss. This article attempts to straighten out the arguments and reach a conclusion about how worried system administrators should be.