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Pianobar - Console client for the personalized web radio pandora

Posted 04-18-2011 at 11:47 AM by sridhar11

pianobar is a console client for the personalized web radio pandora.

- play and manage (create, add more music, delete, rename, …) your stations
- rate played songs and let pandora explain why they have been selected
- show upcoming songs/song history
- configure keybindings
- last.fm scrobbling support (external application)
- proxy support for listeners outside the USA

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Buying open source?

Posted 04-18-2011 at 11:47 AM by williamfromtexas

Tags gnu, money, oss, proprietary

Tell me, what's the difference between open source and commercial software?

If you'd have asked me not long ago, I'd say that there's a world of difference between the two, and that they both sat at opposite ends of the software spectrum. "Isn't it BAD," I thought, "to pay for software?"

No!, it seems. The correct answer is that it's perfectly OK to pay for software. (gnu.org) Open source software at it's heart is a philosophy: it is software which...

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Ruby: configuration file parsing utility

Posted 04-18-2011 at 10:12 AM by catkin

Tags configuration, file, parse, parsing, ruby

Netsearching found three options for Ruby to parse configuration files:

YAML is powerful but I felt the the configuration file format was too complex for end-users. YAML example.
drks' ParseConfig was not powerful enough for my needs.
Hans' parse_config was also not powerful enough for my needs.

So I rolled my own and offer it here for community use. I was delaying publishing because it is not finished (there are TODOs in the code) but it works well enough and may never be finished so better...

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installation in fedora 14

Posted 04-18-2011 at 03:21 AM by magicalshashank31

i have download some software of linux,,,,i want to install it manaually using terminal,,,,,,,,,i dont want to use yum or add/remove software to install pakages..

how can i do it...!!!

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looking for education

Posted 04-17-2011 at 07:52 PM by megasaputra

i have a child. she is one month old. so i am looking for a desktop education linux for my daughter. i search in the internet. i find like opensuse edulife, edubuntu, and sabily. so i want to try one by one. i will choose one of them. yesterday, i have installed sabily. now, i want to download opensuse edulife.

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