Category: Software

  • Music too quiet: bad; ReplayGain: good

    I listen to music a lot more since discovering Pandora and getting a SqueezeBox. Now Mugshot’s Music Radar is better for criticising each other’s musical taste I listen to our own music collection on the computer more as well. Some of our older CDs are noticeably quieter than newly-produced ones, so we have to keep…

  • Manipulating PDF documents

    I heard about pdftk today, and installed it to take a look. Quite nice, but I wish there were a nice graphical interface for it.

  • A million Fedora users, but how many file bugs?

    Some estimates put the number of people using Fedora Core 6 at a million. So why is it that when I encounter reasonably obvious bugs, I very often tend to the the first person to have filed a bug about it?

  • Printing updates

    There are currently test FC6 updates for hplip, gimp-print, system-config-printer, cups, foomatic and hal-cups-utils. This may be the most concurrent test updates I’ve yet had to deal with!

  • Version updates

    There are two weeks left before Fedora 7 test 1. So, time to do those version updates I’d been putting off.