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Local photography, National rants, Zero navel-gazing allowed… Blogging from Hopkinsville, KY

Month: July 2007

  • FLAC audio CD archiving

    At one point Robert Heron on dl.tv mentioned he was converting his entire CD collection to the FLAC audio format. This is important because FLAC means lossless audio compression and it’s an excellent format for archiving. Once the CDs have been ripped to FLAC you can lose the CD, give it as a chew toy…

  • Alsasound hang on shutdown workaround

    It seems this problem first occured for me after I upgraded to kernel v2.6.20 from v2.6.19. Then since upgrading to v2.6.22 the hangs caused by alsasound have gotten much worse. Finally, I got fed up with it and just removed alsasound from the runlevel altogether. Surprisingly, sound still works without alsasound. I’m using the in-kernel…

  • Hardware review: SimpleTech SimpleShare NAS 250GB

    I got this for Christmas which was about 6 months ago. It’s probably a good device for the non-technical consumer but it has a few drawbacks for the advanced user that wants more. Some of the advantages for the SimpleShare are that it supports mirroring/striping via multiple external USB hard drives, has a built-in print…

  • Drink the sudo Kool-Aid

    In the beginning, there was the simple root logon. The Admin elevated his privileges through this simple process and all was good. This state was excellent until it was neccessary to create more users to do the work of the Almighty Himself. So the wise admin fashioned the tool called “su” that made it easy…