hints & tricks in no particular order
25/11/2012
Note that you will need flac and lame for this to work. Run the following line in the directory where the flac files are: for file in *.flac; do flac -cd “$file” | lame -h – “${file%.flac}.mp3″; done You can also make lame create the mp3 files somewhere else. Take the following line: for file in *.flac; do flac -cd […]
24/11/2012
24/11/2012
I quite broke Android on the Mele today, and the easiest way to fix it (without opening it or reinstalling it entirely) is to boot an alternative linux distro. I tried: Linaro 12.07 by CNX-Soft Image name linaro-precise-alip-20120724-274 Needs 4 GB SD Card Display is laggy, but access to internal file system, fine for […]
24/11/2012
The Mele is really a nice mini computer but Android is sometimes a bit weird; when connecting a hard drive through the embedded sata port, media players are reluctant to scan it, making it difficult to launch movies or music from it. I tweaked Android a bit so that it thinks that main storage is the hard drive. This […]
17/11/2012
I recently installed a PC running Ubuntu in an encrypted drive. The next step was to use a VPN provider to anonymize it a bit. I first used the Network Manager to configure and run the VPN, but I was a bit confused by the GUI, and wanted to customize the VPN a bit more. Moreover Network Manager stores its settings […]
17/11/2012
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 12.10 from scratch on a PC with a nvidia GeForce 9300 embedded. The only particular thing is that it was connected to the monitor through VGA. Unfortunately, the display was stuck at 1366x768 instead of the native resolution 1680x1050 no matter if I used the nouveau or the nvidia drivers. […]
11/11/2012