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December 23, 2006 • 2 min read • Technology

Shell script to downsample podcasts

I have a very basic mp3 player with only 128 MB memory.

December 23, 2006 • 1 min read • Technology

Creating and mounting iso images (CD image files) under linux (dd)

Creating and mounting iso images under linux is very easy.Creating:dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.isoMounting:sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/isoThe file endings iso, raw and cdr denote all iso files.

December 20, 2006 • 1 min read • Technology

Manually creating an encrypted partition without yast2 (fdisk, mkreiserfs, losetup, twofish, cryptotab)

There is an article in the knowledge base, but here in short:

December 16, 2006 • 1 min read • Technology

How to backup mysql databases (mysqlhotcopy, mysqldump)

There are different possibilities.

November 16, 2006 • 1 min read • Technology

Backup your home directory using tar

As root go to /home directory and execute the command:tar -czvf pathto/archive.tar.gz username

November 12, 2006 • 2 min read • Technology

Watching, ripping and converting DVDs (xine, mplayer, mencoder, dvd, iso image)

Both xine and MPlayer can play DVDs directly, but xine has a DVD navigation.

November 12, 2006 • 2 min read • Technology

Suse Linux 9.2 and encrypted DVD playback (xine, libdvdcss2, libxine, hdparm, DMA)

Although several linux video players (e.g.
My family tree - Mein Stammbaum - Minun sukupuuni

October 28, 2006 • 1 min read • Finland

My family tree - Mein Stammbaum - Minun sukupuuni

Here are some files with preliminary results of my family research.

October 24, 2006 • 1 min read • Technology

Using lame to create mp3s from wavs

Using Audacity I converted one of the ripped WAVs into an MP3.
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