Oh man 비빔밥 [Bee-Beem-Bop] is so good!
For my church every Sunday I rip a audio CD that is made during the service and need to encode it into an MP3. I prefer to use open source tools and the best tool I have found for this in Ubuntu so far is ripperx. Ripperx is not anything fancy, but it is super easy to use and gets the job done. Below is a very simple howto:
Step 1. Installation – Log into your terminal ( I don’t encourage the gui way because you don’t learn ) and type the folllowing command:
# sudo apt-get install -y ripperx
This will install ripperx and if you don’t run into any issues proceed to step 2.
Step 2. Opening ripperx – This can be opened by going to –> Applications –> Sound & Video –> Ripper X
Step 3. Insert a CD and prepare the track – Just click X button next to any track you would like to rip to MP3 or alternatively just select all tracks. Then fill in the all of the fields regarding the track.
Step 4. Start Ripping – Click Go and that’s it! Once the rip completes it will generate a folder in your home directory with the MP3 in it.
Changing the system time in Ubuntu from the command line is easy – All you you have to do is run sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata .
Select your region of the world.
Select the city that corresponds to your time zone.
And that’s it. Your time zone is set.
Today I installed Google Earth on my laptop which runs Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 bit and to my surprise Google Earth would crash immediately upon starting. This was easily solved after searching the Google Earth forums but thought I would post the fix here just in case any of my readers encounter this issue. The fix is simple and shown below:
Step 1. Open a terminal
Step 2. # cd google-earth/
Step 3. # wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1
Step 4. Start Google Earth and it should be working.
It appears the cause of the failure is a simple rendering library issue – This fix is specifically for version 5.2.1.1329 (beta)
I have long loved Apache and Nginx, but after working with and supporting Litespeed at work I decided to give it a shot on my own system. I am not disappointed in the least. Litespeed is a super fast webserver that is both extremely powerful and easy to use and it comes with a webgui, Apache compatibility and built in DDOS protection. I’ll be posting an installation tutorial later on how to install this in your own system. I also plan on covering a complete wordpress install on Litespeed including w3 total cache and APC. This server makes the site experience much more enjoyable!
