Archive - Aug 12, 2008

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Buy MP3 Music from Amazon.com using Clamz and Amazon Downloader

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 12:28
How amazon's system works

Typically if you search for MP3 files on amazon, you'll get a list of matching tracks with "Buy MP3" buttons, and also possibly some albums with buttons that say "Buy MP3 Album." (See the first screenshot attachment below.) It doesn't matter whether you have 1-click ordering turned on or not; if you're logged in, clicking on the orange button immediately charges your credit card and starts downloading the music.

Low Resolution Issues on Ubuntu

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 12:05

Greetings,

I went around and around with low resolution issues with my GeForce 6800 GTX video card in Gutsy and then again with Hardy. I ended up using vesa drivers just to get native 1680x1050 resolution on my ViewSonic VX2025 monitor. Nothing I did, and I do mean nothing, would make the monitor use any of the Nvidia drivers and display native resolution.

Recently I built a brand new computer with a 9800 GTX video card and had the exact same problem. I spent (literally) 3 days trying to figure out what was going on and would like to share my experience and the way that I solved my resolution issues.

What I discovered is that my monitor, along with many other older LCD monitors, was passing corrupt EDID info to xorg. Put very simply EDID info resides within the monitor itself and when the data becomes corrupt the video driver falls back to a mode that is absolutely safe for your monitor although it's usually unusably low.

WinAmp equalizer presets in Banshee 1.2

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 11:21

The Winamp equalizers presets are the best equalizer settings I have found. The following guide will get the default WinAmp presets working under Banshee 1.2.

1. Download the equalizer presets

Code:
wget http://www.mikesplanet.net/files/equalizers.xml.gz

Visions of a Microsoft-Free World

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 10:36
Source: http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64106.html

Is free software taking over the world one town at a time? Residents of Felton, Calif., recently pledged to go proprietary-free for at least a week. Plans for similar events are reportedly under way in town in Oregon and New Mexico, as well as 100 towns in Italy.

At LinuxInsider, we've been busy these past few weeks trying to bring you all the most important news from the world of our favorite operating system, as we always do.

But it turns out we missed something. It wasn't until we began compiling our Linux Starter Kit -- which we're fervently hoping will help show more of the world the light that is Linux -- that we discovered it: Lindependence 2008.

18 CLI Audio Tools for Linux

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 10:31

http://tux.50webs.org/review_cli_audio_tools.html

This article reviews all the most common command line tools for manipulating and listening to audio formats on Linux. Players, editors, encoders/decoders, tag editors, music servers, they are all here. Currently it includes no less than 18 CLI (Command Line Interface) tools.

ogg123 - Ogg Vorbis player
ogg123 is a simple Ogg Vorbis player capable of reading the song's tags and displaying detailed information about it.

KDE-PIM Hackers Present Integration of KDE 4 Frameworks

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 10:27

Source: http://dot.kde.org/1218388855/

In the final presentation of the talk days at KDE's yearly world summit, Akademy 2008, the KDE-PIM hackers surprised the KDE community with a couple of announcements, covering nearly all aspects of PIM-related data handling. After demonstrating the Kontact suite on Windows and Mac OS during this year's LinuxTag, the KDE-PIM team continues to raise the bar for competitors on the enterprise desktop. Read on for more details.

The Plasmobiff Plasma applet displays PIM information, making it trivial to show e-mails on your desktop. Bertjan Broeksema talked about how KPilot aims to bring Palm Pilot data into Akonadi and back in KDE 4.2.

Canonical To VARs: 11% of U.S. Businesses Use Ubuntu Linux

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 10:24

Source: http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/10/canonical-to-vars-11-of-us-businesse...

In an effort to rally solutions providers around Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is telling resellers that 11 percent of U.S. businesses already run Ubuntu. That’s impressive, but when will VARs truly jump on the Ubuntu bandwagon? Here are some clues from The VAR Guy.

For more than a year, Canonical has been piecing together a global channel of partners, distributors and solutions providers. Much of the effort started during Ubuntu Live, a mid-2007 conference in Portland, Oregon. At the time, Canonical executives described how the company was developing training centers to help get IT pros acclimated to Ubuntu.