Goodbye F-Spot. Hello Shotwell.

I’ve finally found a photo manager for Linux I can live with, Shotwell. Shotwell is an photo manager for GNOME that I’ve been testing for a few months now but the recent 0.5 release which added tagging and printing, it means Shotwell is finally ready replace F-Spot on my workstation.
Shotwell is intuitive, well documented, extremely [...]

Recovering reserved space from ext4

The Ext4 file system, like Ext3, reserves 5% of the blocks on the file system for the root user. The reserved blocks are there for root’s use as a safe guard if the filesystem gets full, it provides some wiggle room to enable the really important programs to still function. But in some cases there’s [...]

StarTech S354UER Review

I’ve ripped my entire CD collection to MP3 and I’m in the process of ripping my entire DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD collection to MPEG-2 TS files so that I can stream everything to my PS3 using MiniDLNA. I currently have this data stored on an internal 2TB volume and backed up to an external 2TB [...]

Mediatomb vs. MiniDLNA

I have been using Mediatomb for nearly two years now but I decided to give MiniDLNA a whirl since it is a fully fledged DLNA server whereas Mediatomb is UPnP only. I am currently running both Mediatomb SVN and MiniDLNA CVS. So, how does MiniDLNA compare to Mediatomb?

MiniDLNA is easier to compile, configure, uses less [...]

Amazon Loves Linux Music Lovers

I’ve no idea when Amazon.co.uk lauched their MP3 store and I’ve no idea when they released their Linux client for downloading the MP3s you purchased. I don’t care, I just want to say I’m really impressed Amazon have considered us Linux users. Well done Amazon!
Not only that but the MP3s are DRM free, encoded using [...]

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