Easier local DNS cache
After a while pdnsd stopped working for me, and try as I might I can’t fix it. So I purged pdnsd and found an easier method, with no configuration this time!apt-get install bind9 resolvconf
Easy, persistent, local DNS cache to reduce lookup times
Important Update! Don’t use this method any more! I have a much easier way to do it in a more recent post. But for posterity… First install resolvconf and pdnsd: sudo apt-get install pdnsd resolvconf. Resolvconf handles the messy interaction between different programs fighting over the /etc/resolv.conf file, and pdnsd provides a persistent DNS daemon, [...]
Normalizing your MP3 collection with mp3gain
Carthik Sharma from Ubuntu Blog suggests the following method to normalize all the MP3 files in your collection: find . -type f -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mp3gain -r -k Unfortunately, this seems to have problems with very large collections (I suspect that the command line is being filled up), so here’s what I [...]
The Ur-Quan Masters on Ubuntu AMD64
At the moment, The Ur-Quan Masters doesn’t work on AMD64. This is a shame, because I just found it and realised Star Control II was the game that I had played on my friend-down-the-road’s computer so many years ago. Attempting to fix this by forcing the install of the 32-bit version of uqm doesn’t work, [...]
