I love the idea of the ogg media standards. I don’t use vorbis, since TiVo doesn’t support it, and we spend a lot of time listening to music over our TiVos. But Theora is different. My Palm T|X can handle Theora (thanks to the wonderfulness that is TCPMP), and that’s the only place I need [...]

Those of us who love amaroK but use Ubuntu Breezy were left out of this month’s release of amaroK Fast Forward. Due to irreconcilable conflicts, amarok 1.4 is not in the official Ubuntu repositories. However, if you are willing to take chances on an unofficial repository, the amaroK Wiki has step-by-step instructions to [...]

Here’s an interesting script, something that I’ve been searching for for awhile: Automatic MySQL Backup. What does it do?
Everyday AutoMySQLBackup will run (if setup on /etc/cron.daily) and using mysqldump and gzip will dump your specified databases to the /backups/daily directory, it will rotate daily backups weekly so you should never have more than 7 backups [...]

Linux.com continues their Vim tips series with “Folding fun”:
Let’s start with some simple folding actions. Pick a text file, preferably a longer one like your xorg.conf, or just about any text file that’s too big to fit on the screen by itself. Open it in Vim, and place the cursor at the beginning of a [...]

In a previous entry, I mentioned that Google had promised to do a WINE port of Picasa to Linux. According to Ubuntu Blog (and just about every other tech news source in the world), Google has finally come through. That’s right, Picasa on Linux! I’ve already downloaded the .deb that Ubuntu Blog links to and [...]

Sometimes it feels like I’m the only person on the planet who has heard of eMusic. I’ve been a fan of eMusic since I first heard about it, and have been a paying member since July 2002. (Which means that eMusic’s various owners have made a total of something like $1000 off of me.) I [...]

Security Blog has an article pointing out that most passwords are insecure:
Vu, who is a assistant professor in the Psychology Department at California State University, Long Beach, goes on to say that the average password is easy to crack, but access to biographical data makes guessing that much easier with favorites being birthdays and children’s [...]