Category Archives: Linux Stuff

We’re a Squeezebox household now.

Posted on June 19, 2007 by slacy

When we turned off the PC that we used to use for watching TV, it also took away our ability to play music in the livingroom (since the HD TiVo that we have doesn’t support HME or HMO). So, we … Continue reading →

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A real double metaphone implementation in C++

Posted on May 20, 2007 by slacy

I’ve been doing some work on a baby name explorer web app, and I needed a good C++ implementation of the double metaphone algorithm. There are several C and C++ implementations mentioned on the web site, but most of them … Continue reading →

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ampache is a great replacement for Netjuke!

Posted on March 9, 2007 by slacy

After the troubles with Netjuke after my upgrade to FC6, I decided to start looking around for a replacement for it. In my searching, I came across ampache, which offers basically everything Netjuke did, and more. Here’s a short version … Continue reading →

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Patch for Netjuke & Fedora Core 6 & PHP 5.1

Posted on March 9, 2007 by slacy

After upgrading to FC6, which includes PHP 5.1, when I clicked on the “play” icons in the Netjuke UI, the playlist would show in the browser instead of starting playback. The problem seemed to be that Netjuke was now returning … Continue reading →

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Burning CDs on linux with cdrecord

Posted on March 4, 2007 by slacy

I don’t know why, but I find the program “cdrecord” the most problematic of almost all Linux commands. It never works right, always fails with mysterious messages, and even in the “best case” prints out cryptic things like “Warning: using … Continue reading →

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Switched to GMail.

Posted on February 12, 2007 by slacy

Well, I’ve finally become a convert. After using GMail for a while at work, I’ve become addicted enough to want to use it on my personal accounts. I looked into Google Apps For Your Domain, created an account, but decided … Continue reading →

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strchr() Considered Harmful

Posted on January 30, 2007 by slacy

You tell me whats wrong with the following, which is the standard definition of the strchr() function: char *strchr(const char *s, int c); Give up? Well, think about this code: void FunctionThatDoesntExpectItsArgumentsToChange(const char *input_string) { char *unconst = strchr(input_string, input_string[0]); … Continue reading →

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Spamassassin 3.1 on Fedora Core 4

Posted on January 15, 2007 by slacy

Well, I finally bit the bullet. Spam has been flooding into my mailbox recently, and Spamassasin 3.0 just wasn’t cutting it. I had hesitated to install Spamassassin 3.1 because there was no “official” Fedora Core 4 RPM around. I had … Continue reading →

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Venus T4U USB Enclosure & Linux

Posted on January 15, 2007 by slacy

Well, after returning the Netgear SC101 piece of junk, I decided to pick up my second choice, which was a “Venus T4U” USB 2.0 enclosure by AMS Electronics. The cool part about this thing is that it holds 4 drives, … Continue reading →

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Why does everybody always do things the hard way?

Posted on January 11, 2007 by slacy

Problem: You’ve got a 250G drive sitting around, and you want to use it. You’ve already got 1 USB drive attached and adding another seems like a pain in the butt. Solution: You go to Fry’s and see an empty … Continue reading →

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