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My 1st linux blog entry

Posted 12-31-2006 at 10:06 PM by dogpatch

Just testing, basically.

If anyone is really interested, i have a personal blog at http://dogpatchofthenorth.blogspot.com as well.

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cannot connect to internet

Posted 12-30-2006 at 01:24 PM by migfor@sbcglobal.net

please can someone help me I have a linksys router connect tomy laptop that needs an ethernet card becaues of the age of the laptop I also had a friend that up graded it from win 98 to 98 millennium, my problem is that all is connected from the router to the card . everything is lit up . then i get internet uable to link no page to display. so please help.

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Linux From Scratch by a newbie, part deux...

Posted 12-30-2006 at 03:29 AM by threekgtvr4

Well, since the last entry, I completed LFS 6.1.1 successfully. I then realized that I was WAY to new to Linux to actually do anything with it. So I trashed it, installed Debian. I got to play with that Distro for about a month before my HD decided it wanted to take a crap. So about a month ago I got SimplyMEPIS installed and haven't used WinD'OHs since (well, except for my scanner ::shrugs:: whatcha gonna do??? lol).

So, I'm back to trying Linux From Scratch again, but this time...

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Rip CD to FLAC, then convert FLAC to Ogg Vorbis

Posted 12-29-2006 at 10:03 AM by Caysho

Assuming you want a FLAC copy, of course.
Use any good ripper app to extract to FLAC.
I'm currently using Sound Juicer, but under OpenSuSE I was using another one from the Gnome suite (called something like XCDRipper, which was more configurable than Sound Juicer).
Then, I found a script to convert to MP3, which I modified.
It doesn't like spaces in the filenames.

That thread also talks about cd2ogg, which has been very handy.

Alternative...

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Running Internet Explorer in Ubuntu Linux

Posted 12-29-2006 at 06:23 AM by sridhar11
Updated 07-01-2016 at 09:54 AM by sridhar11

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you’ll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it’s free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications.

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