I’ve written before about ripping audio CD’s from the command line (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). Certainly, if you’re just ripping a new CD, then just convert the audio to your chosen format at that time. But maybe you’ve been archiving your music in FLAC format or you purchased some high bit-rate MP3‘s for download and now you want them in a different format or bit-rate for your music player. Continue reading
Canonical introduced a new default font for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. In my humble opinion, this new font gives Ubuntu a more polished look. The new font is now available in the repositories for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Continue reading
One of the much touted features of Android 2.2 Froyo is the ability to connect the phone to your computer through USB and allow the computer to use your phone’s internet connection. This practice it commonly known as tethering.
I’m not sure about other mobile carriers in the US, but Verizon modifies/disables this feature in Android so that you can’t use it. Verizon wants you to pay another $29.99 a month to enable this feature. That wouldn’t be too much of a big deal if they didn’t already require you to already have a $29.99/month unlimited data plan just so you can activate an Android phone on their network. Continue reading
For years the keyboard shortcuts in the GNOME Desktop Manager have been Print Screen to take a shot of the whole screen and Alt + Print Screen to take a shot of the active window. (See the documentation here.) Something happened in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat that breaks the functionality to take screenshots of the active window. Continue reading
There is a new version of the Koobface worm that can infect a Linux operating system. Jerome Segura over at Pareto Logic has a blog post showing how this worm can infect a user’s home directory in Ubuntu. Continue reading