Wow, I haven't been here in a while. Anyhow, since I'm playing quite alot with mobile phones, I needed a way to convert my podcasts to a less space consuming format. And since all of them support HE-AAC, I wrote a small wrapper script that can convert almost any format …

Although I'm not a regular Skype user, I still employ it from time to time to do my share of VoIP. But it happens quite often that I don't get any audio from my microphone, although incoming sound works just fine and all the alsamixer switches and gains are set …

This is just an update to the script I posted a while ago over here. It works the same, has the same requirements, it's just a bit more user friendly. Refer to the original post for details, grab the script below.

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 3 ]then
  echo Usage: $0 …

Just in case you have one of those pesky Motorola W490 or W510 mobile phones that can't use an mp3 file as a ringtone because your network provider doesn't want to let you do that, well, you can. And you won't have to reflash your phone just to do that …

If you have an ASUS WL-AM604G (A hardware variant) ADSL Wireless router, than you are probably accustomed to rebooting it everytime your connection fails and your ISP returns an invalid username/password error. Fortunately, the sources for this router's Linux-based firmware are available, and a group of russian modders have …

Here's a little shell script I made to convert the html files in a directory to plucker format e-books:

#!/bin/sh
ORIGINAL_IFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'
for file in $1*.html; do
  plucker-build -f $2`basename $(echo $file|sed -e "s/ /\\\ /g") .html` file:$file
done
IFS=$ORIGINAL_IFS`

You call it …