Creating A Terminal Window Clock
If you've been using Linux for a while, you may be familiar with the terminal command, date. The date command will display the current date and time to the terminal. On my system, the default output of date looks like this: Read more
Batch Converting Audio With GStreamer
I recently got a new TV that allows me to stream audio and video from my computer to the TV. I tend to archive music from CD's I've purchased in FLAC format. Unfortunately, FLAC is not one of the formats supported by my TV. I decided to write a little script to convert my music archive into one of the supported file formats. Read more
Command Line Basics: Create And Extract Tarballs
In the Linux world, tarball refers to a compressed tar archive file. The most common type uses gzip compression and the file typically ends in tar.gz or .tgz. The tar command itself has its origin in Unix systems where is was used to save files to magnetic tape. The name tar stands for Tape ARchive. Read more
Server Move Complete
OK, the move to a new server is now complete. Hopefully, having the site on a more powerful server will prevent my account from being suspended due to high server loads. I'm not sure if the site performance will improve at all.
Comments are now re-enabled.
Comments Temporarily Disabled
The site is currently being migrated to a new server. I'm turning off comments until the migration is complete so nothing gets missed.
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