Why I can’t ditch Gnome 3

*UPDATE razor-qt merged with LXDE who were in the process of migrating from GTK to QT. The merged project is available from http://lxqt.org/ LXQT is also installable in Debian now. install lxqt desktop on jessie *ORIGINAL On low power machines people will often mention that Gnome/KDE are sometimes too bloated to use. I don’t really …

Organise your music with Rhythmbox File Organizer

Basically this is a short plug for my Rhythmbox Plugin, Fileorganizer. The plugin Supports all the latest versions of Rhythmbox in current distros. HomepageDownload Fileorganizer is a Rhythmbox Plugin that will move and rename files according to your tags and then update the database so you don’t lose your ratings and play counts. Don’t waste your …

MiniDLNA: The best streaming software hands down!

*UPDATE* – minidlna is now a package in Debian! It’s also a package in Ubuntu 11.10 so you can just install it from your package manager. 😉 I stream to my Xbox 360 and other devices from a file server in the office. For years I’ve used (and purchased) TwonkyMedia Server but I was never …

Forget Samba. Use sshfs!

Background: sshfs is something i only just stumbled across after 5 years of using linux and i could just kick myself for all the effort this would have saved me. Because i prefer the couch to a desk I wanted to rename and retag my music collection remotely using audio tag tool. (packagename tagtool) tagtool …

How can wannabe programmers move beyond scripting?

I have a problem, after working in support for several years and studying basic and advanced programming courses at university. I’ve had my fair share of experience with numerous programming languages. But not a lot of experience building applications beyond assignments and heavy scripting for work. Using VB, VBS, C# and basic Python I haven’t …

Create a local deb repository

If you download a lot of individual deb files and use them over multiple computers a good idea might be to use a central place to store your deb files. if you store them offline and maintain a lot of systems. downloading once and updating your repo will be a lot better than downloading the …