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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Category: linux

Comfortable Mp3 tagging with EasyTag

I’ve searched for years for a good Mp3 tagging utility. They all failed on some points: Too slow (in either the User Interface or the updating of tags) Confusing User Interface No IDv2 tagging No mass-tag-updating No way of renaming files according to tags No way of reading tags from the particular way I name […]

Why Freshmeat.net is obsolete

Back in the good old days, Freshmeat.net was the source for getting your daily dosis of new Free Software/Open Source Linux programs. A single visit a day would keep you up-to-date on the lastest important software releases in the Open Source community. Freshmeat’s target audience has always been hard to describe. In the beginning it […]

Taking Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) for a test-drive.

NOTICE: Please substitute all occurences of the text ‘1.1’ in this article with ‘1.5’. The reason? They’re skipping v1.1 and going straight to v1.5. Too bad I didn’t find out about this Roadmap earlier. About Deer Park Deer Park, the development codename for the upcoming Firefox v1.1 release, hit the Alpha 2 stage last Sunday. […]

SecureSHell File system

Okay, I’m on a linking rampage here. Sorry. (I hate link-logs). But this is pretty cool, and I’ve been looking for it for a long time. Mounting a remote filesystem over SSH: shfs. Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell […]

Debian System Administration Tips and Resources

Cool site: Debian-Administration.org This is a simple weblog which is designed to contain interesting and useful information related to the System Administration of Debian GNU/Linux systems. Whilst there are several sites where users can post questions and have answers contributed by other users there are no other sites on the web which are specifically targetted […]

Uptime record

I’m no Operating System uptime geek, I really don’t care too much. But this is still pretty cool, my alltime record: [todsah@sharky]~$ uptime 12:36:59 up 256 days, 50 min, 3 users, load average: 1.75, 1.72, 1.24 If only I had a UPS.

Debian Unstable X.org causing conflicts (Update)

Hm. Yesterday I wrote about X.org entering Debian Unstable. Turns out though that it’s still causing a lot of conflicts. So far most notably with Xine and various display libraries. Better wait a while before upgrading to X.org. More information about this problem on slashdot. Update: The totem-xine problems and probably many other related to […]

Debian Unstable X.org causing conflicts

Hm. Yesterday I wrote about X.org entering Debian Unstable. Turns out though that it’s still causing a lot of conflicts. So far most notably with Xine and various display libraries. Better wait a while before upgrading to X.org.

GNU Source Installer

A new project, the GNU Source Installer, popped up. […] a graphical tool which provides configuration, compilation, installation, tracking and removal of source packages. Basically, it’s a front-end to configure && make && make install. This screenshot describes it best. But the cool part is de-installation and easy access to information on installed packages. This […]

X.org enters Debian Unstable

X.org has finally entered Unstable (Sid) version of Debian. It’s been available for testing from people.debian.org before. I recently – yesterday as a matter of fact – installed it from there, since it wasn’t available from the main debian archives yet, and everything worked rather nicely. This is also the first X server I’ve ever […]

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