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Sandisk Sansa e200 v2 series MP3 player incompatible with Rockbox
I was roaming around one of my local electronics stores today and decided to purchase an Sandisk Sansa e250R MP3 player since I wanted a shiny new Rockbox powered player.
Unfortunately, after playing around with the e250R for a little while and being unable to patch the bootloader, I discovered ...
read moreAging computers shouldn't go to waste
How many of you out there hate to see aging computers go to waste?
I guess you could say that I have a bit of available soft spot for them because I have a habit of acquiring these machines from people and fixing them up when necessary so they can ...
read moreWhat is your preferred console text editor?
What is your preferred text editor for the console? If you select 'Other', please let me know what you use.
Poll Results:
read moreGNU Emacs: 9% (37 votes) GNU nano: 26% (104 votes) JOE: 10% (39 votes) VI / Vim: 41% (161 votes) Other: 13% (52 votes) Total votes: 393
Converting family members to GNU/Linux
I was finally able to convince my sister to make the switch to GNU/Linux a few months back and I am pleased to say that she is still happily chugging along with it.
She is not computer savvy and was initially being worried that her pictures and other files ...
read moreJamendo is taking over my music collection
I was going through my music collection recently and I noticed that a rather considerable percentage was from Jamendo, a community dedicated to Creative Commons licensed music.
To be honest, it wasn't really a surprise to me as it simply confirmed what I already assumed. I figured I would ...
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