A friend of mine convinced me that the way to go when ripping CDs is to use a lossless audio codec, in order to retain the maximum amount of audio fidelity. Given the low cost of hard disk space (heck, 1 terabyte hard drives are under US$200 these days), it makes sense to keep your [...]
I’m not much of a photographer, but I do have some pictures that I want to hold on to. That’s why I upload my important pics to my Picasa Online Album. With that done, I can format, reinstall or whatever, and not lose any pictures. Now, getting those pics back onto my computer was a [...]
James’ earlier post on how to easily install a C++ development environment on your Ubuntu box reminds me of something I have been meaning to mention about installing software on openSUSE. There is some nice functionality built into YaST’s Software Management module that is called “Patterns”. By using patterns, you can quickly and easily install [...]
There’s a meta-package for Ubuntu that will install everything you need to compile C or C++ programs.
This command will install it for you: sudo aptitude install build-essential
Or you can simply click here.
UIF is a proprietary disk image format created by MagicISO. As far as I’m concerned, it’s utterly worthless. If you happen to get an image file in this wretched format, you can use UIF2ISO to convert it to an ISO file, usable by pretty much anything out there.
After you download UIF2ISO from the author’s page, [...]
Hi everyone! Normally, I try to give advice on this site, but today I’m asking for it. I need to setup a proxy server. This can’t just be your average web proxy server though, it will need to support encrypted communication with the client, as well as authentication. I’d like to be able to allow [...]
It seems that almost every Linux blog I read today had something about recovering deleted files from ext3 filesystems. That’s all well and good, but what if you are sure you want the data deleted? What if it needs to be more than just deleted, it needs to be securely destroyed? Well the concept certainly [...]