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Command Line Basics: Ripping Audio CD’s, Part 2

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In Part 1 of CLB: Ripping Audio CD’s, I showed how to rip the audio from a CD and save it as WAV files using cdparanoia. In today’s short tutorial I’ll show how to convert those WAV files to Ogg Vorbis audio files.

So the first thing we’ll need to do is make sure that the proper tools are installed. We’re going to use the oggenc command which is part of the vorbis-tools package. You can check your distro’s repositories for vorbis-tools. If you’re using Ubuntu, you can install it with: Continue reading →

Gnumeric: A Light Weight Spreadsheet Program

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Most Linux and Open Source enthusiasts are familiar with the OpenOffice.Org office suite. OpenOffice is great, but sometimes you just need a lighter and faster alternative. Maybe you’ve got a netbook or an older computer and you don’t need a full, integrated, office suite, but just a few of the main applications like a word processor and a spreadsheet program. Gnumeric is one such spreadsheet program.

Gnumeric is available for Linux and 32 bit Windows. If you’re running Ubuntu Linux, you can install Gnumeric from a terminal with Continue reading →