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Exaile for maemo 4.0 (OS2008)

I’ve made a new release of Exaile for maemo 4.0 (i.e. OS2008, chinook). This drops a bunch of backward compatibility patches needed for OS2007, and takes advantage of some gtk 2.10 features. Also,...

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Updating the N800 to OS2008

Here are my notes from updating to OS2008 for getting root access via ssh and taking an early snapshot of the image filesystem with rsync: Download the OS2008 firmware image. Follow the instructions...

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Nokia vs Ogg

It’s lovely to see Nokia embracing “Web 2.0″… BoingBoing Slashdot Re dd it di gg ars technica Bl og s You can participate too, with a related issue. Help convince Nokia to provide out-of-the-box...

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Exaile volume problem in OS2008 fixed

I finally got around to looking at the problem tonight. The fix was very simple. My apologies for not addressing this sooner! Get the updated .deb. The problem was due to the volume range on the...

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Sorting package version strings

Interesting less trivial than expected problem (solved): sorting package version numbers: import re import rpm def get_package_version(name): """Return version string of installed package.""" # note:...

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LightScribe – meh

One of tonight’s tasks was to burn a freshly downloaded Fedora 10 DVD ISO image. My dad gave me some blank LightScribe DVDs a while back, so I thought I’d give them a try, not having done so before....

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When maemoscrobbler seems to be stuck…

My N800 was running off-line for quite a while. During this time I’d listened to a bunch of songs with Kagu and was hoping that it would immediately scrobble them to last.fm as soon as I went online....

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How to program remote control codes for Yamaha AV Receivers

Detailed instructions for getting the Yamaha RX-V361 remote control to control a Panasonic TV

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NTSC to PAL DVD conversion in Linux

I needed to convert a home-made video (well slide-show with soundtrack really) that was sent over from the USA. Attempting to play this on a PAL-only TV results in unwatchable flickering monochrome...

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Logitech Harmony Universal Remote Linux Software Support

On a friend’s recommendation, I purchased a Logitech Harmony universal remote. Some quick searching online suggested that the unofficial community Linux support for this device was decent. It took a...

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