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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: 393Converting 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 take …
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