Make M3U

This program allows you to drag and drop a folder onto it, and it will generate a playlist (m3U) file in that directory with all the .mp3, .aac, and .mp4 files in that directory. Adding more formats is really easy, so let me know what else you guys want…

Download Here (203 KB)

Wake On Lan

Wake On Lan v0.0.1

This program sends a WOL “magic packet” to the desired NIC. If everything is setup right on the target. It will boot up.

You will need the MAC address of the NIC you want to send the packet to.

Usage: wol.exe <MAC Address>

Download Here (2.4 KB)

Changing linux policies for CPU scaling and disk mounting

I use fedora from time to time. Listen to music, watch some videos, try some new programs that I think are cool. My primary OS is windows though…

I just use linux when im bored with the usual windows 7 and want to try something different.

It’s refreshing, i like how clean it is and i often continue to use it for a few days before I go back to windows, and that really makes me appreciate it more

anyway, so there are a few things that i find annoying about linux. i feel like its another vista. they ask for the root password for every small change. i find it annoying.

the two most common ones are:

1. changing the CPU scaling policy. when my laptop is plugged in, i’d rather it use all the CPU it can get. to change this i need the root password. annoying.

2. mounting a NTFS drive. i have all my music on the NTFS drive i keep for windows, to mount it, it needs the root password.

luckily its easy to fix it

Here’s how:

The directory contains the policy files for the above actions, you can edit it them to reflect the changes.

/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/

for 1, and 2 above you will need to edit the files ‘org.gnome.cpufreqselector.policy’ and ‘org.freedesktop.udisks.policy’

scroll down to find this part and change the <allow_active> tag from ‘auth_admin_keep’ to ‘yes’

vivek

HTC Tattoo

Posting this from the WordPress client for my phone.

Used this phone for about 2 weeks now and I love it! While buying it, I was on the fence between this and the HTC Touch2, but I’m glad I picked this over the window mobile.

HTC isn’t too popular yet, but I have no doubt that HTC is the next big thing. They are getting it right… let’s see if I’m right I should review this post in a year or two.

Apart from this, just a week left at home. Dreading the next few months. Oh well, here we go again

Songbird

Songbird 1.2.0

i downloaded and gave songbird a try today, i had done this earlier on my old computer, back the UI was slick. it was black, and looked like a really cool music player. that was actually why i tried it. back then, i had a pretty crappy computer and i thought the performance was bad. the player takes to long to load, switching songs is slow and it felt very sluggish. i attributed it to having an old computer, was sort of un happy because its just a music player, why does it need the latest hardware… anyway, gave up on it back then.

i just uninstalled it for the second time. from my new Thinkpad T400. for the very same reasons. Let me tell you what i like about the player. the interface and maybe the farting bird mascot… hehe..
but all that at the cost of waiting for my player to come up just isnt worth it. not on a pretty new computer. i will surely try songbird again. i just hope they make some real improvements in terms of performance. i guess, its one of those pitfalls of using java. the UI has changed a lot, but is still pretty awesome.

until next time.

i’ve gone 64bit

i have just completed a dual boot setup on my t400. fedora core 11 x64 and windows 7 pro rtm x64. I got my hands on windows 7 through msdn. i managed to install it today after i got home after the test i had been preparing for – the past few days. it went fine. thank you.

windows 7.

since i didnt have a blank dvd to write the iso on i decided to boot from my usb stick and install it off that. The install went smoothly. i had vista32 and fedora installed before i decided to switch to 7 – and the install was simple. it cleaned up my program files (obviously because i wasnt gonna need anything form there) and ditched the vista “windows” folder and renamed it to windows.old (you can delete this if you want to) i didnt have to format or anything, i just pointed the install to the vista drive it said its gonna clean it up, and thats exactly what it did. +1 microsoft. i like this. apart from that… to me.. the install is identical to windows vista (i think they changed the background image) hehe.. once installed, i obviously lost grub, so i had to pop in the fc 11 dvd and recover that. thats it. dualbot. win7 and FCXI both 64 bit. yay!

pretty much everything on my t400 worked right from the beginning, i like lenovo’s battery manager so i installed a beta version of that for 7, that’s it. i dont think i installed any other drivers. Everything is setup and running fine now. ill use windows 7 for a few days before i go and make some wild claims about it.

cheers!

Thinkpad T400

Thinkpad T400

august 26 2009

i got my thinkpad t400 today!

2.2 ghz dual core

4gb mem

250gb hdd

14″ xga+ screen with a built in webcam

dvdrw+

6 cell batt

$999

i love this computer. yay!

just got it running FC XI x64

cant wait for win7

cheers!