Finally, somebody wrote an alternative to Exact Audio Copy, which now runs under linux (EAC worked fine with WINE under linux altough..). For those who don't know, EAC is THE well-known ripper, which supports accuraterip, and now finally there's a linux alternative!
..for those who don't buy ...

I've just been playing around with a QNAP TS-639 Pro, and apparently it wasn't able anymore to boot from the internal 'DOM' (disk on module). First try to 'flash' a firmware update available on their website failed.. Why...? Looks like they're encrypted by default, so useless if ...

I just recently started to play around with software RAID's under linux, and I thought I'll share a piece of code to watch the progress of a raid-rebuild.

``` {.lang:sh .decode:true} || user@workstation ~ || while [ 1 ] ; do clear ; cat /proc/mdstat ; sleep 5; done

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1 ...

It's about time for a new post.. ;-)
Recently I've installed cygwin again on one of my Windows boxes, because I was in need of some essential *nix tools, especially netcat, whois, nslookup, dig, awk, grep etc.
Well, now that I ended up installing new apps every few minutes ...

So since I run some old/slow hardware, I want to get the max out of them, speedwise, without upgrading anything on the hardware side. So one of the things I do is to re-compile the applications/libraries with some customized CFlags. CFlags allow you to instruct your compiler (GCC ...

Just a quicky for today.. I could have sworn that there was a oneliner on commandlinefu.com (which is a great page btw!) to add a random album to MPD (Music Player Daemon), but I wasn't able to find it. So time to quickly build one on my own ...