The Linux Heart Archive
This is the earlier Linux Heart: technical discoveries, short news items, personal opinions and the occasional detour. They belong to the story of this blog, even where the product, service or debate has long since moved on.
The original dates and addresses are preserved. Technical posts have English translations; some personal entries remain in their original language. A revisited guide keeps the original account alongside a separately dated follow-up. The archive is available for reading without advertising.
For practical walkthroughs, start with the selected engineering guides. For current product and marketing stories, return to the journal.
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- How to extract an array from an mp3 file: frame1:volume1;frame2;volume2;…
On one project, I needed to extract an array of amplitudes for every frame in an mp3 file. Finding a solution took a day. I…
- Google Voice! And Skype in the Trash?
Google has treated us to another new feature. This time it is Google Voice, a service due to launch soon that aims, among other things,…
- Google Latitude: another creature from Google
I tried testing Google’s new creation, Google Latitude, today. Essentially, it is Google Maps for an ordinary phone, which apparently uses cell tower data to…
- Firefox 3.0.4 is out
This release adds several new language versions of the browser, improves Russian spell-checking, and fixes a number of vulnerabilities found since the release of 3.0.3.…
- WordPress: getting the Remember Me checkbox to work
After moving some of my blogs to WP 2.6, I hit a problem: WordPress stopped remembering me when I opened the admin area. Every time,…
- PuTTY keep-alive: stopping idle connections from freezingRevisited guide
A router once dropped my idle SSH sessions. Here is how to test that symptom, choose a PuTTY keepalive interval, and avoid changing unrelated server…
- I’ve added OpenID sign-in to the blog
Well, I’ve finally done something readers have asked me for more than once: bolted OpenID sign-in onto the blog. Nice little thing; we’ll see how…
- Modern Linux: happy with its evolution? Let’s vote!
I've worked with Linux every day for years now, at least 9, I reckon. I started while I was still at school. At university, I…
- Making room for Linux in Vista: Shrink Partition
I've had a Sony Vaio TZ laptop since my first trip to the States. It's a nice little machine, but rather underpowered, especially with Vista…
- Picasa is now available for Linux too
Linux fans can now enjoy a native version of Picasa. The Linux version has been available to download since yesterday. It is handy for organizing…
- Хостер. EstHost – выбор проффесионалов!
Ну что Вам, товарищи, сказать. Мой хостер, под гордым названием EstHost, провалялся 2 недели. Итого - имеем потери в весьма приличном денежном эквиваленте и массу…
- Создатель ReiserFS осужден пожизненно за убийство жены 🙁
Очень не хочется превращать блог, задуманный как "истинно Linux-related проект" в желтую газетенку, и так уже последние новости были далеки от исходной темы... Но, тем…
- Chrome: first impressions and a quick review
Well... I've just finished playing with Chrome and wanted to share my first impressions. What can I say? "Clean, but bare-bones." That's how Google's new…
- Google Chrome: a new browser from Google 😉
News of Google's new browser swept across the internet this morning. According to the first reports, a demo will be available to download this evening,…
- The fight for mini-laptops: Who wins?
According to ComputerworldUK, Microsoft has offered several mini-laptop manufacturers Windows XP Home Edition for just US$26 per machine, cutting the price advantage of open-source operating…
- Linux makes inroads into the phone market
Linux was the hottest topic at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Why? Let’s try to answer that... Over the past year, several shifts…
- Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista
Users’ observations have shown that it is much easier to find old Windows applications that run successfully and fully under Wine on Linux than to…
- A new 3G phone running Linux is announced
A collaboration between NXP Semiconductors and Purple Labs has produced a new device running Linux. It is still a reference design, meaning the phone’s features…
- Desktop Linux: looking back at 2007
This year, Linux held on to a big slice of the desktop OS market and didn't give ground to the segment's established leader, Microsoft Windows.…
- Hana Linux, or “Unite the 2 Koreas”
Hana—I’m not sure where the stress goes—is a new distribution, originally named Hana Linux, to be developed jointly by specialists from North and South Korea.…