eMusic is slowly getting better and better. They’ve quietly been upgrading their catalog. Their Blues selection is quickly approaching “amazing” and now, according to Digital Music News, they’ve picked up Rolling Stones’ 1964-1970 catalog. Searching eMusic’s site for rolling stones didn’t find anything, but searching for the ABKO label revealed several albums already available.
Jim Griffin on Warner Music Group’s decision to explore an ISP surcharge for unlimited P2P music downloads:
We want to monetize the anarchy of the internet.
It’s too bad none of the big kahunas in the music industry had this attitude when Napster offered a monetization plan. Just image how far technology could’ve advanced in the past 7 years if the technology movers and shakers hadn’t been choking under the threat of multi-million dollar lawsuits.
Wow … has it really been 7 years?
netstat doesn’t behave as it does on Linux. Here’s how to show or list open ports on OS X:
$ sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i listen
I’ve set this up as an alias in my .profile (or .bashrc, depending on which shell you use) file as follows:
alias ports='sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i listen'
This is a quick and dirty overview of how to compile a Linux kernel for Debian Etch. I’m posting this because I’m tired of looking it up. Laziness 4tw.
cd to /usr/src and wget desired kernel from www.kernel.org.
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 build-essential
$ rm -rf linux
$ tar xjf linux-x.x.xx.tar.bz2
$ ln -s linux-x.x.xx linux
$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ make clean && make mrproper
$ cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
$ make menuconfig
Got to Load an Alternative Configuration File and load .config. After configuring the kernel, save the .config.
$ make-kpkg clean
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers
$ cd ..
$ ls -lt
You’ll see your two .deb files at the top. dpkg -i each package and reboot.
Source: HowToForge
The UIF file format is a Windows-based proprietary compression format. The following links are to tools which will convert a UIF file to ISO.