Listen to Amazon audio samples on Linux
[2009-11-29]I use Firefox on Gentoo Linux. And I am quite a frequent Amazon shopper. But as a Linux user they make it pretty hard to listen to audio samples for a lot of CD's. Sure, they only support Mac or Windows. But the funny thing is, it works great on Firefox on Gentoo too.
You only need to make sure you have www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer installed. And you need to install the Firefox User Agent switcher plugin, and fake you're using Firefox on Windows.
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Some tracks I did in 2000
[2009-08-31]I happened to stumble upon some old treated fieldrecordings that I did way back in 2000. The recordings are treated using analog equipment (an old Stratos synth and some awfully connected mixers with feedback) and an old Comodore Amiga. You can download the tracks here and here.
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Balkan fieldrecordings onine
[2009-08-30] (1 comment)Finally I had the time to put online a selection of fieldrecordings I made during my last holiday, using my Zoom H4n.
001.) Piezo microphones attached to a pole that holds the trolley bus cables, in Budapest.
002.) Piezo microphones attached to an electricity pole, in Pusztazamor.
003.) Budapest Keleti railway station.
004.) A street musician near Budapest Keleti.
005.) Bus ride in Kosovo.
006.) A coffee shop near the market early in the morning, in Skopje.
007.) Chants from the inside of the church are played amplified outside of the church, in Ohrid.
008.) Chanting in a church in Ohrid. (Recommended!)
009.) A fountain in Zagreb.
010.) The entrance of a metro station in Zagreb.
011.) THere's a guy works in the chipshop swears he's Rioji Ikeda.
Which you can download the whole lot as an archive here.
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Zoom H4n
[2009-07-18]I got myself a nice present yesterday, the Zoom H4n, which I will use doing fieldrecordings. So far, my first impressions are really good. It has 2 XLR-1/4" combo jack inputs, and a 1/8" stereo jack (plug- in powered) external mic input, whick makes it pretty ideal for the use with my home made microphones.
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=sys-fs/udev-126 is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1
[2009-07-04]While trying to update my Gentoo system, I got this blocked package
[blocks B ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking
sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1)
Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 438 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
I first updated sys-fs/cryptsetup and now I can update sys-fs/udev.
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Firefox 3.5 on Gentoo
[2009-07-03]Today I installed Firefox 3.5 (what a beauty... ;-)) on Gentoo. It is available in this overlay
* zugaina [Rsync ] (rsync://gentoo.zugaina.org/zugaina...)
After emerging and a revdep-rebuild, it didn't start. Starting Firefox from the cli gave me this clue
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.1 and 1.9.1.
I found out that this says that Xulrunner is not compatible. The Xulrunner version on my system was
jarra@jarra.nl:~$ /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9 -GRE-version 1.9.0.11
The revdep-rebuild must have downgraded Xulrunner again. But Firefox 3.5 was searching for 1.9.1, as you can see in the application.ini file
jarra@jarra.nl:~$ cat /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/application.ini [Gecko] MinVersion=1.9.1 MaxVersion=1.9.1
Then I remerged Xulrunner again and that resolved it for me.
[edit 2009-07-18]
When I wanted to do an "emerge -uND world" I got complaints about Epiphany wanting a Xulrunner 1.9.0. I never use Epiphany, but it's pulled in by Gnome (unfortunately).
I updated Epiphany to 2.26.3, and now Epiphany is using Xulrunner 1.9.1. I had to unmask these packages:
ww-client/epiphany ~x86 x11-libs/gtk+ ~x86 dev-libs/glib ~x86 dev-util/gtk-doc-am ~x86
And haven't tried Epiphany, as I don't mind whether it's working or not... ;-)
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Syntax Highlighting
[2009-06-27]Posted bits of code on my microblog, and I realized these bits were not that clear without syntax highlighting. So I compared some of the syntax highlighters for Javascript that are available. There are some really good ones.
For this blog I decided to use the SHJS syntax highlighter. It supports a wide range of programming languages, and has a lot of nice themes. I use a slightly modified version of the greenlcd theme here. And I think the code bits are very clear and stil suit the design of my site.
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