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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

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, [...]

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 [...]

So I had this idea of writing a quick search plugin for Beagle to search Rhythmbox’s current playlist titles. They would show up in the search GUI and then you’d double-click on one and it’d handle this (probably through a pseudo-URL like playlist://rhythmbox/my-playlist-name which seems to be the de facto standard amongst Beagle plugins) by [...]