mp3burn is a simple command line tool for making audio CDs from mp3s without filling up your disk with .wav files. It requires perl, mpg123, and cdrecord.
update! Why not use a self made script? (see comments)
Because I keep forgetting the parameters to pass to cdrecord, and it’s easier to have someone else maintain a package than me. Plus there’s a few graphical frontends for mp3burn that could be handy for the family.. Might finally get my brother interested in using Linux as a desktop!
Author Archives: Donncha
Anger at move to restrict FoI Act
Here’s why the techies on ILUG didn’t get excited about the Government’s plan to restrict the Freedom of Information act:
- It came just a week after the data retention fiasco. There’s only so much ranting and raving one can do, even the ILUG! People are bored of politics.
- The FOI Act deals with data that most people just don’t care about in their day to day life. The data retention policy directly applies to me because I go online at home. Do I have any issue with the Governement that I need “secret” information to persue? No, of course not, but if you are concerned about the running of the Government then the FOI Act is important. In a perfect democracy all citizens would be concerned citizens..
KiteIreland – Come Fly a Kite in Ireland – Homepage
Who wants to be in the office today? I’d rather be flying a kite!
Wish I had the money for some of the kites on mobilekiteshop..
RTÉ News: Man gets life sentence for Limerick murder
System Administration Made Difficult
This site is a great source of useful information, despite what the title says!
Kontact KDE PIM
Looks like KDE gets an Outlook clone in the form of Kontact. Well, in fact it integrates the existing KDE applications Kmail, Korganiser, Kaddressbook, Knotes. Looks good, I’m downloading it!
MUD Players – us raid on iraq
What if mudders planned a war on Iraq?
US: Ok, putting together RvR group for Iraq raid… who’s in?
Turkey: Only if someone makes me new armor. Last Iraq raid I lost money on
US: *sigh* Ok, can’t build you the new armor, but I’ll help pay for it. How
much you need.
Turkey: 6 Plat.
US: WTF?! You’re not building the armor out of platinum, ya tard.. no
frikking way.
Patent Application Processing Flowchart
UserFriendly has a flowchart showing how a patent application goes through. Scary! *grin*
Cork LUG – b2 and Smarty mod
I finally released the source of this blog. There are always so many small things to do when source code is released. Actually creating the application is simple. Afterwards, you have to write documentation, create a web page or update one, create and upload a tarball, the list goes on.
If there’s bugs, so be it. I’ll get around to fixing those when I can, but right now it’s good enough!
Fonts, fonts, fonts
Did you notice? I updated my style sheet this morning and changed from an absolute font size to a variable one: font-size: 11px; became font-size: 90%;
Does the site look better in your browser? In Galeon on my machine at home there’s a marked improvement, but IE and Mozilla on a Windows box here suffers a bit. Did you notice?