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Setting up SoundJuicer to encode the files as MP3 instead of Ogg Vorbis requires some new tricks when compared to older versions. Just installing MP3 support isn't enough. You need to create a gstreamer audio profile to do it. Paul W. Frields has a good guide that helped me get set up.

I just upgraded my laptop to Fedora Core 4 and noticed that my carefully crafted .Xdefaults stopped working with Emacs. For some odd reason FC4 has changed the window name (?) of Emacs from emacs to emacs-x. Changing all references in .Xdefaults respectively will let you benefit from your modifications.
And now, all is well [...]

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Because I’m lazy and don’t like switching computers to test my web development work, I’ve been playing around with Internet Explorer on Linux a bit more. As I’ve already noted, the Sidenet configuration utility works well in installing IE 6.
But unfortunately web development still requires testing with older IE versions so I finally got [...]

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After a recent hard-drive crash I had to reinstall Linux on it. Details on installing a clean Fedora Core 3 installation on a HP compaq nw8000 follow.

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A short guide on how to rip DVD audio into MP3s with mplayer.

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