31 Jul, 2009

According to the author, Dalle is a set of utilities to work with splitted files in various formats. But, not only we can put splitted files together, Dalle also allows us to split files in several parts.

The supported formats are:
- Astrotite
- Axman 3
- Easy File Splitter
- File Splitter
- Genérico
- Hacha (1, 2 y Pro)
- KamaleoN (1 y 2)
- MaxSplitter
- SplitFile
- Zip
We can download the software as a deb package from the download section of the Sourceforge Website.
Once installed, we can start the programm by executing the following command:
31 Jul, 2009

Because of a comment we received from Silverwolf, in which he asked us, how to show what you are listening on Spotify, we started a research... and we found a plugin to get it done in Pidgin... (we are still looking for a solution to show what you're listening to on emesene)

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15 Jun, 2009

Is there a better way waking up, than listening to your favourite music? If you're one of those guys, that leave their computer running even if they go to bed, this post may be useful for you... We'll use a script and cron to create a "really geek" alarm clock...
We'll start creating the script, that'll be responsible for playing the music files and turning up the volume gradually...
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5 May, 2009

Sometimes, when we manually install a deb package, there are some dependencies that are not satisfied, because they are not installed correctly. In that case we often get informed, that the software is damaged, or dependencies are not satisfied or updates could'nt be realized correctly, like it is shown on the next image:

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To solve this problem we'll need to execute the following line in a terminal:
sudo apt-get -f install
5 May, 2009

Phoronix Test Suite is an all-in-one software to create benchmarks or performance tests on Linux. Even if the aplication doen't have any tests installed by default, we can install them easily by our own. It's important to know, that the software doesn't have a grphic interface, so we need to control it all by commans from a command shell. But, don't worry, its really easy. Here are all commands you need to know...

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