This one took me a few months to catch onto. I spend the better part of a year without digital music because I was so disgusted with the whole DRM thing. When I came back (after discovering Magnatune and MP3Tunes) I wanted to rip my collection into MP3 format (hopefully I’ll get an OGG player […]
Justin of The Mighty Linux Blog has a great HOWTO up on how to get suspend working using Suspend2.
Justin wrote the HOWTO for K/Ubuntu users, but he indicates the corresponding commands for non-K/Ubuntu users.
I’ve had unrelated problems getting suspend working on my laptop, but the parts of Suspend2 that are working, work well :)
Here’s a […]
Probably the most recognized audio file format out there is the MP3 format. MP3 is a patented format that takes uncompressed audio and compresses it. While I’m not any kind of expert in this area, the basic premise is that the MP3 algorithm figures out which parts of an audio file are too high, low, […]
In an early episode of the GNU/Linux User Show, Kelly asked me on air if she could run GNU/Linux on her Mac. Without thinking I said ‘No, you need an intel processor’. Well, holy moly - the emails sure flew that week. Close to 100 listeners emailed me to tell me what a dork I […]
I’ve decided to write a book about Podcasting in the GNU/Linux community. It’s a half-baked idea, yes, but that’s never stopped me before. I decided to start a New Linux User blog one day and look where that’s gotten me!
Given the community, I thought that it would be a neat idea to let the community […]
There are a lot of desktop managers available for GNU/Linux, but KDE and Gnome are arguably the two best known. I’ve used both and prefer KDE, but a lot of people have also tried both and prefer Gnome. To each their own, I say. That’s one of the wonderful things about GNU/Linux - choice.
However, in […]
I was involved in a conversation today regarding applications for GNU/Linux. Whenever I talk about this subject, it becomes apparent to me that (once again) that there’s a misconception out there that there are no ‘Linux versions of Windows programs’. Well, I guess in most cases that’s technically correct, but in most cases there are […]
I think that most distros come with multiple desktops already set up. The ‘default’ seems to be four desktops, although you can generally set that to whatever you’d like. I find that three is optimum for me, but I usually stick with four because the pager on my task bar looks better with four squares […]
I recently did a show on podcatchers for GNU/Linux and played around a bit with Bashpodder, BpGUI, and iPodder but somehow I totally missed the fact that amaroK can be used as a podcatcher.
For the uninitiated, a podcatcher is a piece of software used to subscribe to podcast RSS feeds. Don’t confuse podcatching with podcasting […]
With my recent foray into Linspire, there’s been some discussion over whether Linspire is being responsible by not ‘guiding’ inexperienced user to create a day-to-day unprivileged user account during the install wizard process.
That’s one question. The other question that comes to the forefront is if there’s any real merit to the old adage ‘never run […]
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