I listen to MP3s in the car and it’s annoying when the volume isn’t normalized. I can’t be fumbling around with the tiny buttons on my MP3 player to adjust the volume while I’m driving. I found mp3gain and used it on a bunch of files and it appears to have worked. […]

I had to undelete someone’s files from a FAT partition today. My first thought was to use good ol’ Windows to do so, given that Windows is the unholy ground which spawned FAT to begin with. I remember there used to be an UNDELETE command of some sort in some old version of […]

I own my own domain (or five) and one of the good things about that is having nearly infinitely many email accounts if you want them. So I tend to make up a new account for every site I register at. This leads to amusing things like getting an email from a marketing […]

Picked up a meme from here, may as well spread it around.
~ $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
2394 cd
1879 ls
1017 vim
998 sudo
890 bzr
732 ruby
585 rm
538 mv
493 find
412 svn
The only reason vim is so low is because I usually start gvim from my KDE menu. Sudo is in that […]

It’s not often I’d call myself “excited” about a program, but MusicBrainz Picard is a really great program. It lets you tag MP3s by looking the up in an online database.
That’s very much like what a ton of other programs do, but the interface for this program is nice for doing a lot of […]

I ordered PAIP today. Good computer books are so expensive. It hurts me to spend $80 on a book. But there are many worse ways to spend $80 than on something which contains so much knowledge, I guess. I got a $25 gift card for a book store for Christmas, so […]

I was wondering today how many Gentoo devs actually read Planet Larry.
If you’re a Gentoo dev, and you feel so inclined, could you leave me a short comment? Just say “hi”. In this way, I shall count you.
I’ll at least get a lower bound answer this way. Unless no one […]

Gentoo is alive. Just wanted to state that for the record. I use it and it works fine. I say that having ditched Gentoo many times in the past looking for something better. I always end up coming back to Gentoo because it works best for me. If Gentoo sucked […]

Note to self: mount.cifs won’t let a non-root user mount a share unless they are the owner of the mountpoint. Even if you set the users option in /etc/fstab.

Imagine if you will, a field of daisies. In the background, some sappy music. Perhaps Chariots of Fire? At one end of the field, running in slow motion, arms spread wide, is a pasty white, lanky, bespectacled geek. At the other end, a nondiscript black box. What is this box? […]