Sometimes you need to compile the squashfs module by yourself, sadly this does not work out of the box at the moment in Ubuntu Jaunty. The first thing to know is that it depends on the lzma module as it has some patches in Ubuntu which add lzma compression to it. To start up we [...]
With the new version of the Last.fm nationality statistics I’m scanning the content of the user’s whole music library. Since this is a task which needs a lot of time I needed to cache the result. First, I thought of caching it in the database, but as the cached data is a bit bigger and [...]
There was a webservice that made a chart showing which countries I listen to.
Some months ago it vanished.
Because I really like to see to which countries I listened to, I just wrote a similiar mashup using Last.fm, Freebase and Google Charts. I won’t go into detail, just check your Last.fm nations. If a artist’s country [...]
Still I am messing around with the combinations of Icecast2, ezstream configuration and well encoded videos delivered from ffmped2threora. Depending on which flags I set on the ffmpeg2theora command line, VLC stops to play, does a 2 second pause between 2 tracks or just continues seamlessly. I hope I get it managed till next week [...]
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