Mar 21st, 2013 by admin
In this tutorial, I’ve documented a step-by-step how-to for installing streeme on debian and getting it to work with nginx.
Streeme is an open source, html5 based personal (private) music server. If you wish to store your music at one place, and listen to it from virtually any internet connected device – Streeme is a right for you.
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Jul 16th, 2012 by admin
It’s not piracy that killed the comic book industry in India. Kids used to share comic books all the time.
Comic books just got phased out.
Just sample what the current crop of 6-14 year old kids prefer to do as a pastime.
Kids in 80s and 90s used to read comic books.
Kids today play video games.
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Jun 28th, 2012 by admin
Say what you will about Microsoft Windows, there are certain things where it just shines.
Case in point, Remote Desktop – so efficient, that over a reasonably fast internet connection, the user experience is almost as good as when logged in locally.
The Linux alternatives, while not as restrictive, are nowhere near as efficient.
The only thing that comes close is NX server.
This tutorial will run you through the process of installing NX server, with XFCE desktop environment, on a Debian (6.0) machine.
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Sep 27th, 2011 by admin
The most common method of having a link open in a new window i.e., target="_blank" is invalid markup as per XHTML 1.0 strict.
If, like me, you are a stickler for valid strict markup, here’s the easiest solution to maintain markup validity when you must have your links open in a new window/tab.
Apr 18th, 2011 by admin
I recently had to re-encode my whole music archive (FLAC files) to AAC (m4a) to put on my Windows phone 7 – at a bitrate lower than I keep them at on my desktop.
As there doesn’t seem to exist an AAC equivalent of tool like oggdropXPd, I had to write a script to do this myself.
I thought of sharing it as it might be useful to others as well.