So here is a very quick and simple plugin; it simply puts a button on the toolbar that you can click when you want to stop playback after the current song. I based the toolbar button code on Alexandre Rosenfeld’s lastfm-queue plugin, since I had no idea where to start with that

Download it here, and put it into ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/stop_after_song/. Activate it in Rhythmbox’s plugin dialog.

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Just a simple package created using checkinstall. For more information on the program, see the NFO Viewer home page.

Screenshot of NFO viewer.

Download: NFO Viewer 1.2

Addendum: I went looking for an old .NFO file to show a screenshot, and Wikipedia linked to Humble Guys, so I went over there and clicked on X-Wing.nfo… it was only after I had created the image that I realized this was the exact same .NFO that Osmo Salomaa used on the official NFO Viewer page… coïncidence?

1. Download the RT2500 Windows Drivers, and unzip them somewhere.
2. Ensure you have wireless-tools and ndiswrapper installed.
3. Open a terminal and browse to the folder where you unzipped the drivers.
4. sudo ndiswrapper -i rt2500.inf
5. Edit /etc/modules (as root) and add ‘ndiswrapper’.
6. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (again as root) and add ‘blacklist rt2500’.
7. Restart, and you should now have a working card.

Oh, that reminds me… I should really contact some translators to ask for updates and release Gnome Specimen 0.2.

—Wouter Bolsterlee

The Gnome Specimen product is not set up for translation in Launchpad.

You might want to talk with Wouter Bolsterlee (uws), the project registrant, about using Rosetta.

—Launchpad

Done!

/etc/bind/named.conf.options

//Add this somewhere inside the options{}; section...
        forward only;
        forwarders {
                //OpenDNS
                208.67.222.222;
                208.67.220.220;
        };

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, which will cache the DNS lookups on your machine in order to make browsing faster.

Next, you just need to edit pdnsd’s configuration file, /etc/pdnsd.conf as root. Edit it to look like this:

global {
        perm_cache=512;
        cache_dir="/var/cache/pdnsd";
        max_ttl=604800;
        run_as="pdnsd";
        paranoid=on;
#       next setting allows ppp/ip-up update the name servers -- ABa / 20040213
        status_ctl=on;
        server_port=53;
        server_ip="127.0.0.1";
}

#Edit these to be your own servers if wished:
server {
        label = "OpenDNS";
        ip=208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220;
        proxy_only=on;
        timeout=10;
}

# if you installed resolvconf, and status_ctl=on
server {
    label="resolvconf";
}

source {
        ttl=86400;
        owner="localhost.";
#       serve_aliases=on;
        file="/etc/hosts";
}

And finally, restart pdnsd with sudo /etc/init.d/pdnsd restart to use the new settings. In the example above, I've used OpenDNS's servers, but you can change these to whatever you want. As far as actual results go:

~$ dig example.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> example.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17447
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 172800 IN A 192.0.34.166

;; Query time: 513 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 5 15:24:19 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45

$ dig example.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> example.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19338
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;example.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.com. 172799 IN A 192.0.34.166

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 5 15:24:20 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45


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 came up with:

find . -iname '*.mp3' -execdir mp3gain -r -k "{}" \; &

If you’d rather use album normalization (and you have your files separated by album such as “~/Music/David Bowie/Hunky Dory”/):

find . -iname '*.mp3' -execdir mp3gain -r -k -a "{}" + &

How to use it

Simply open a terminal, browse to your music directory (using cd), and type it in.

Break it down

What the command does:

1. find . -iname '*.mp3' finds all MP3 files in the current directory and all subdirectories.
2. -execdir mp3gain -r -k "{}" \; & executes “mp3gain -r -k” on each file (the filename goes where {} is found). The semi-colon indicates to execute the command once per file, but since ; is also a significant character for bash, you need to escape it with a backslash. The final ‘&’ tells bash to run the command in the background.

Install command-not-found then add this to your ~/.bashrc:

function command_not_found_handle {
        /usr/bin/command-not-found $1
        return $?
}

And you’re all done:

~$ ssed
The program 'ssed' is currently not installed, you can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install ssed


This seen outside New World supermarket, Wellington, New Zealand. I’m not sure if the placement is some kind of metaphor.