Overview
Let’s say you want to track a run, hike or bike using your smart phone and GPS. Now let’s say you want to brag about it on facebook, store stats, and then make little fly-over tours in Google Earth.
Enter EndoMondo a web site for tracking such things using GPS. It has the best [...]
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
Continuing my install series, here’s how you get OpenOffice 3 and Java w/ the Browser plugin working out of your homedirectory on an old linux install (EL4) without root access. I assume you already have a working [...]
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
Having just gone through my guide on installing Firefox now you’re ready to do basically the same thing for Thunderbird.
This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called [...]
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
So you want Firefox 3.new on your EL4 workstation and don’t have root access? Worse off it’s an x86_64 machine? This is not for the faint of heart, and you will run into some snags, [...]
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
All I wanted to do was play Internet radio via a SOCKS proxy. Is that too much to ask for on Redhat EL4? Apparently so. So after many hours of frustration, here is how you [...]
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
Installing TaskCoach and its dependencies in $HOME for EL4
This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.
Requirements
Python-2.5.5.tar.bz2
wxPython-src-2.8.10.1.tar.bz2
TaskCoach-1.0.1.tar.gz
Directions
Python
Install it like normal unless you have a modern distro that [...]
Overview
I’m starting to adopt Unicode/UTF-8 into my world to allow for more internationalization in my projects. Someday I might play with Perl6’s UTF-8 stuff too. I also want to be able have different charactersets render correctly while using Mutt. I often get email from people in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and SouthEast [...]
Overview
In these last three posts [1] [2] [3] I tackled fixing my existing MP3’s to make them more iTunes friendly. I did it with three Perl scripts using two different ID3 libraries : Audio::TabLib which is a Perl wrapper to KDE’s TagLib, and MP3::Tag.
I’ve since given up on MP3::Tag. Although updated [...]
Update
I’ve consolidated this script into a new one. GO HERE : http://warped.org/blog/2009/05/03/itunes-fixing-id3-tags-in-mp3s-take-two/
Overview
MP3’s have been around almost 15 years now. In the beginning there was a slot in the top of the MP3 file where you could hold the Artist, Album Name, Title, Track Number, etc. This is called the ID3 tag, and [...]
Update
I’ve consolidated this script into a new one. GO HERE : http://warped.org/blog/2009/05/03/itunes-fixing-id3-tags-in-mp3s-take-two/
Overview
If you have an album that’s a compilation or DJ mix, then Cover Flow gets confused and does not group all the tracks together into an album because there is a different “Artist” for each track.
iTunes gets around this by setting it’s own custom [...]