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drblock2 — 2009-02-18T18:06:11+00:00

Dear Grumpy,

As a refugee from the World of Windows, I often seek the comforts of home - like clicking to record music while listening to it at the same time.

Actually, I have been doing this in one form or another for some fifty years now - ever since I connected the line-out of my preamplifier to my real-to-real tape recorder.

After struggling with no avail with VLAN, which delivered the music, but not the recording and failing with Audacity, which chokes off the source, I found your article and - as you suggested - down loaded KStreamRipper. This did not immediately work, of course, because I had neglected to down load streamripper itself.

This having been brought to my attention by the front end, I followed your link, down loaded the source code and easily compiled the binary (having done this once before).

Wow! It works. And, I imagine the results are better than the Windows solution, which converts the mp3 stream to wav, which I record and then save as mp3 again. Linux allows me to record the stream directly.

Now, if we could somehow combine all of this into one package with a simple click on "setup", imagine what linux could do!

Thanks so much.

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bmur — 2009-01-26T23:45:06+00:00

Is there a chance to see a comparison of ERP software? You were almost there when you mentioned Compiere in the accounting software article. I'd love to see how Compiere stacks up against OpenERP and any other packages of your choosing.

Thank you.

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roelofs — 2006-06-07T05:46:08+00:00

Forgot one:

The Grumpy Editor's guide to RSS aggregators (20060328)

Greg

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tzafrir — 2006-01-20T16:28:59+00:00

I wonder if it would be useful to link articles such as http://lwn.net/Articles/168094/ (Using open-source tools for documenting research). Maybe not as good as all the above Grumpy Editor reviewes, and with less comments from the crowd, but still seem like a source of useful information in the same field.

Heck, I've just linked ;-)

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jlquinn — 2004-09-24T19:27:49+00:00

I notice that the comments for many of these articles note various tools
that were missed completely (though usually not the most prevalent ones). It occurs to me that you might be able to head off some of that by posting a request for candidates at the end of each posted article for future articles you have planned. That might help at least get you the names of more favorite projects up front.

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raybry — 2004-09-16T18:57:55+00:00

RE: Linux Presentation Software

One of the problems I have run into is getting X to synchronize up with an
LCD projector. I use a Dell Laptop with an LCD resolution of 1400x1050
pixels. In order to sync with a typical LCD projector, you need to knock
that down to 1024 x 768, typically, and depending on the projector, you may
or may not be able to get it to display the screen when running X on your
laptop.

So, its back to the old "boot windows and hope nobody notices" trick and
set the screen resolution there. This has worked every time.

So its not just the presentation software that keeps us from using native
Linux tools, even if we wanted too.

Anyone have a solution to the above problem?

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lacostej — 2004-07-20T10:44:44+00:00

too words: IM and telephony IP.
I am investigating the second one these days (tried gnomemeeting, skype, going for openMCU teamskeak, etc...).
I may make a review if you want but not before a month or two. Takes time to review all of these!

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pivot — 2004-07-01T13:21:11+00:00

What about a grumpy editors review of personal video recorders?

That would certainly trigger a lot of swearing and cursing, even for simple things such as setting up a framebuffer device in nonstandard resolution for tv output or output to a high-res lcd projector.