Archive for the 'HOWTO' Category

Links - How to Name a Name

How to Name a Name (Guy Kawasaki)
- What’s My Name
- More Words
- Word Lab Tools
- The Name Game
- - How they named companies
- Trademark Tips for Your Web App
- - United States Patent and Trademark Office
- A Study of the Pros and Cons of Company Names
- - 10 Company Name Types on TechCrunch: Pros and [...]

When editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, keep in mind that order might matter. Example
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0″
Screen 0 “Screen0″ 1600 0
Screen 1 “Screen1″ 3280 0
Screen 2 “Screen2″ 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice [...]

In a previous post I explained a way to convert a cue/FLAC to mp3. Recently I had to convert a cue/APE to mp3. While searching for ways to do it I came across this post in the aidanhm’s stuff blog. While it has very few posts (the last one in mid February) it does have [...]

So you downloaded an album in the cue/FLAC format (a cue sheet + a flac file) and I want to convert it to multiple mp3 files? Here’s what you need to do:
Install the necessary software: audio-convert, gstreamer-flac, mp3splt. Assuming you’re using Ubuntu and have enabled the universe repository, open a terminal and type
sudo apt-get install [...]

- If you install Microsoft Windows yourself, make sure you are behind some sort of firewall (a simple router like the linksys BEFSR41 will do). If connected to the internet directly a vulnerable Windows PC will become infected within minutes (I’ve seen it happen within seconds). Even after your computer is installed and patched it [...]