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Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry « Locklin on science.

Interesting post about why nanotechnology is cobblers

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Prospective new StackOverflow site

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Proposed Q&A site for for advanced users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems

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Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin Beta – Squeezebox : Community : Forums

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin Beta – Squeezebox : Community : Forums.

triode has spotify working on the squeezebox… I’ve tried it, it’s fantastic.

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Free WiFi in Dartmouth

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

If you are looking for free wifi in Dartmouth, Devon – have a coffee in the Flavel cafe and you can access the library wireless

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Fixing “split” compilation albums in iTunes

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

If you have self-made compilation albums in iTunes that appear as multiple albums with the same name on your iPhone / iPod, try wiping the “album artist” field even if it appears empty. Select all songs, get info, check the album artist box & OK.

With the id3v2 commandline tool (available via fink in MacOS), it should be as simple as:

id3v2 --TPE2 "" *.mp3

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Kanellos the Greek protest dog

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Kanellos the Greek protest dog | World news | guardian.co.uk.

What a cool dog

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Small bash script to check if a port is open

Thursday, May 6th, 2010
#!/bin/bash
checkport () {
 echo | nc -w 1 $1 $2 &> /dev/null
 return $?
}

checkport google.com 801
RES=$?
if [ $RES -eq 0 ]; then
 echo open
fi

Requires netcat

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Get wireless working with Ubuntu 10.04 on the Lenovo S10e

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Add

b43

to /etc/modules & reboot

(also I had better luck with the 2.6.31-20 kernel)

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Fix AAC / mp4 playback on squeezeserver

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

I’d already had a look in the wiki for AAC but that didn’t fix it.

The problem was the libraries were compiled for 32 bit, and my server was running on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10. A question to the forum found the answer.

apt-get install ia32-libs
service squeezeserver restart

fixed it.

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Disable Google Reader’s Social Features

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Disable Google Reader’s Social Features.

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