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 Sky Songs, [...]
September 25, 2009 – 14:33
Regardless of window manager, why can’t I click on an icon to select the app I want to focus when ALT+TAB’ing? Or am I missing something?
Yes it’s used primarily for keyboard usage to prevent having to use the mouse, but sometimes I’m ALT+TAB’ing while I am web browsing to check on the progress in another [...]
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 needed [...]
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.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beplacid.net%2F2009%2F04%2F23%2Fupgrading-to-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope-from-810-or-earlier%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Upgrading+to+Ubuntu+9.04+%28Jaunty+Jackalope%29+from+8.10′;
addthis_pub = ”;
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 here at [...]
