A little thought on mp3s, upsampling, ubuntu (gutsy) and ffmpeg.

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This is techy but short. I have to draw a diagram for my report, and I randomly installed a program called Dia. It took most of the pain out of making a simple diagram. I love it! It's turned a task from being stupidly complicated to beautifully simple because all I want to do is use simple and common symbols, and it provides them. I don't have to ( Read more... )

Prospective linux fun with my Vostro. Not very coherent.

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Windows thwarts me so...

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And that problem, is now fixed without reinstallation.

I'm quickly becoming disenchanted with these people... so I'm not going to be feeding my (very hacky) workaround back at them, which was ( The hacky fix )

So, I said to my dad that I was happy with Ubuntu.

Then I had a problem. Then I went onto the #ubuntu freenode channel and got this conversation:

Hi. I'm having a bit of a catch 22 situation at the moment - after a libc6 upgrade and reinstallation (to fix another problem), ldconfig broke. This means that apt-get is now broken because dpkg didn't ( Read more... )

Right, I'm finally biting the bullet.

First gripe - apparently, even if I have a /boot partition already there, I have to reformat it. I'm not happy with that. But anwho.

Later: First phase of installation went without a hitch. I like some aspects of the installer, like copying user profiles etc. I've pulled them across for my dad, so he can have ( Read more... )

So, I don't know how, but it seems that last night Feisty worked... even when it shouldn't have. All through today, I was tearing my hair out to get networking running on it ( Read more... )

Tastless note: If I ever commit a school shooting, or decide to create a game based on educational mass-murder, I'm gonna have to use Crooked Still's "Railroad Bill ( Read more... )