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Ubuntu Gutsy (7.1) on a Toshiba Satellite A100-022

As holiday geek-fun I installed Ubuntu 7.1 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop A100-022 (a laptop which surprisingly is difficult to find information online). It was a great pleasure for me to note that Ubuntu is the first 100% (or 99%:) laptop friendly Linux distribution. Most of laptop functionalities worked out of the […]

Ubiquitous Programs and Data on an USB key

My programs and my data (work and personal) are stored on an USB key which I plug indifferently where I need: home, work and mobile. It is gratifyng to have my working environment in whatever site I am and with whatever Windows hardware I am approaching my work.
Several yeas ago I advocated the use of […]

Recording streams with mplayer (real audio, asf, …)

Problem: I have a Unix server (BSD at the moment) always on and I want to record real audio streams daily, encoding them in mp3 to listen later in my ipod.
Solution: mplayer, lame, shell script and cron
1) I wrote a script called record.sh that get an output filename and an url representing the stream to […]