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HOW-TO: Rip audio CDs to FLAC format with Rubyripper

By rsheaves | Published: August 12, 2010
So, you’ve liberated yourself from the prison of proprietary audio formats like MP3 and decided to move to an open format with growing industry support and a far superior sound quality: you’ve selected FLAC. And if you run a GNU/Linux distro on your computer, there may not be a more bulletproof tool than Rubyripper for [...]
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HOW-TO: Install VirtualBox OSE Guest Additions in Debian testing (squeeze)

By rsheaves | Published: August 8, 2010
For the impatient or inattentiveInstall the virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 package and you’re all set. So, you want to run Debian testing (squeeze) in VirtualBox at a screen resolution higher than 800×600. Admittedly, this is not a complicated problem to solve, which is precisely why this post is so short. But first, note that Beastie is eating a [...]
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HOW-TO: Increase your wireless network card speed in Debian GNU/Linux

By rsheaves | Published: May 14, 2010
I recently replaced my cable modem and wanted to measure the increase in speed that I used as the rationale for the upgrade. (For those of you that are married, you know exactly why I needed to do this.) But along the way, I ran into a few surprises–most notably that I wasn’t getting anywhere [...]
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Live Free or Die: Debian

By rsheaves | Published: May 3, 2010
Admittedly, I am not a big fan of most things even remotely related to New Hampshire (save for my until-recently-homeless-and-unemployed friend, Kevin), but this has got me rethinking my stance: a license plate that aptly reads “Live Free or Die: Debian.” Of course, the “Live Free or Die” part is the state’s motto/ethos/battle cry/pre-wrestling-cage-match chant. [...]
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Compiling a Realtime (PREEMPT RT) Kernel in Debian 5.0/Lenny

By rsheaves | Published: December 17, 2009
OK, let’s just get right to it. We both know why you’re here and you’re probably raring to get JACK and some client apps running in RT mode with low latencies as quickly as possible. Make sure you have the requisite packages: $ apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 --> build-essential zlib1g-dev By the [...]
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