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Converting Monkey Audio to WAV in Gentoo

I had the bad luck that a CD image I acquired from the Internet consisted of a .ape file for the audio and a .cue file for the track offsets. cdrdao has no problem with .cue files but .ape is the file extension for Monkey Audio files. Monkey Audio is the awkwardly licensed monkey brother of Flac. (They're both lossless audio encoding formats.) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on July 09, 2008, at 20:07 | Comments closed

Mounting partititions residing inside a disk image

When you've read a disk with dd or ddrescue into an image file, one of the things you want to do is mount the partitions inside it. But, how does one do that? The answer is using losetup, with a bit of knowledge of partition offsets. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on July 09, 2008, at 13:07 | 1 comment

Using diff and patch to upgrade web application installations

Update (July 30, 2008): I added information about making sure that the patch was successful. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on March 13, 2008, at 21:03 | 2 comments

Humanity Lobotomy – The Importance of Net Neutrality

In the early days, radio used to be a two-way communication system. Radio communication played a part in social, religious and political dialogs between people. Later, big corporations like NBC and CBS produced 97% of nighttime broadcasting in the United States; all courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission. We cannot let them do the same to the internet. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on March 07, 2008, at 13:03 | Comments closed

Hi, My name is Witchbane and I like witches

2017-12-30: The below post was my first post on www.worldwide-wilderness.com, a project I abandoned in the form it was then intended to take: a series of blog posts and hopefully videos to enthusias young people about wilderness. Here, for posterity's sake… Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on February 26, 2008, at 17:02 | Comments closed

Push the limits

Besides making good music, Enigma also writes meaningful lyrics. A quote from "Push the Limits", from the album "The Screen Behind the Mirror", by Enigma: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on February 13, 2008, at 14:02 | Comments closed

Ron Paul: Going the Distance

Here I am again with a message about Ron Paul. He asks not to give up, even though election victories are already practically claimed, prematurely of course. He also wants to organize a march to Washington D.C., to give the media something they can't ignore, like they usually do. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on February 13, 2008, at 01:02 | Comments closed

Wilderness

2018-01-03. The below was originally published by Myrna on www.worldwide-wilderness.com. I copied it here while discontinuing that site in its current form. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 15, 2008, at 07:01 | Comments closed

Moved from Mnemosyne to FlashcardDB

When I was studying Spanish last year, I had to choose a flashcard program to memorize new words. At the time, I couldn't find any on-line program that just did the job and did it well. In a comment on my blog post from last year, however, I was pointed by Jeff to his amazing FlashcardDB. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 14, 2008, at 23:01 | 3 comments

Rolling back a failed rdiff-backup session on a full partition

For those of you who use rdiff-backup, you may have run into the situation where the partition you're backing up to has no more space available. This is a very annoying situation, because rdiff-backup needs space to be able to roll back the session, so you're kind of stuck. You might think: "doesn't a decent file system have a reserved amount of space for the super user?" Yes, decent file systems do, but you'll often be running rdiff-backup as root, so that won't do any good. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 decade ago, on January 13, 2008, at 13:01 | 1 comment