There's a lot of reasons to have a portable USB Linux setup that does something else than actually duplicating the Live CD of distro X. With Tiny Core that's different, since it does away with the solid squashfs setup that most live distros have and, if you follow the steps …
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Minimal Rockbox scrobbler.log to libre.fm submitter
QtScrobble RPMs for Fedora 13
Since I have Rockbox on a couple of my PMPs, I like to use the log scrobbler function and when I'm near my computer I can just submit my listened tracks history to Libre.fm. To do that, I use a little program called QtScrobble.
Unfortunately, there aren't any QtScrobble …
read moreMy Linux SopCast runner script
Quick audio conversion script
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 …
read moreLinux, Alsa, Skype and audio capture
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 …
read moreMp3 To Mp4plus script update
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: $0 …
read moreASUS WL-AM604G NARS-enabled firmware
If you have an ASUS WL-AM604G (A hardware variant) ADSL Wireless router, than you are probably accustomed to rebooting it everytime your connection fails and your ISP returns an invalid username/password error. Fortunately, the sources for this router's Linux-based firmware are available, and a group of russian modders have …
read morePlucker to the masses
Here's a little shell script I made to convert the html files in a directory to plucker format e-books:
#!/bin/sh ORIGINAL_IFS=$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 …
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