Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii

A few months ago I was looking something up on Wikipedia and ran across a color photograph that was taken sometime in the beginning of the 20th century. I was surprised how current this picture looked and in what great shape it was, just as if it was taken perhaps 10-20 years ago. Especially compared (more)

Mounting NAS with Read-Write Permissions

When I browsed my shared folders on the Lacie Ethernet Disk I noticed that I didn’t have any write access in Ubuntu, even though I explicitly gave read/write access to the NAS users. As I was never asked for a password I was quickly able to conclude that I had to provide username and password (more)

Music Networking with XMMS2, Icecast2 and Last.fm

In the last few months I haven’t found much time to listen to music, but I decided this needs to change and I should finally dust off my old music library. About two years ago I signed up for last.fm, the social music network that makes it easy to discover new music and connect with (more)

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