Listen to free OGG stream Internet Radio on Ubuntu Linux

Sometime, in the middle of the night, I like to listen to music while working on the computer, hacking codes or plain writing blogs on my Linux desktop.

Because of my Linux desktop default installation ‘discourage’ me from listening to MP3 streams, so I’ve to find alternative Internet radio that uses the free OGG Vorbis streams.

So far I found that Xiph Streams directory is the best internet radio directory that can be found on the internet. It feature collection stations dedicated for certain genre of songs, such as blues, hard rock, dance, alternative rock, jazz and few others.

The streams is playable on Totem Player, XMMS, Rhythmbox, and almost all music player available for the GNU Linux operating systems.

FYI, I’m currently listening to a radio station which plays oldies songs. :)

[tags]linux,gnu/linux,ubuntu,radio,streaming,mp3,ogg,vorbis[/tags]

No more Fedora Core, It’s only Fedora 7

According to the announcement I read from Fedora devel lmailing list recently, Fedora project will not release Fedora Core and Extras anymore.

There will be no more distinction between the two repositories as both are will be combined and maintained by the community.

Fedora 7, the first release under this new move will have 28 new features to be added. Fedora 7 is schedule to be release on 26 April 2007

[tags] linux,fedora,fedora core, open source,opensource,distro,rpm,yum[/tags]

The Matrix Linux Console animation

One of my irc chat friend, surface has created a cool ncurses application which displays Matrix-style feed (as seen from The Matrix movie triology).

the matrix feed console

The application comes with C++ source code licensed under the GNU General Public License 2, and it requires libstdc++ and ncurses (most linux distribution already have this installed).

Please read matrix 0.1a announcement from surface’s website for more information about the program.

Source code : matrix.cc

[tags]ncurses,curses,linux,console,gpl,matrix, the matrix,screensave[/tags]

WordPress 2.0.6 released!

I’d like to announced that WordPress 2.0.6 was finally released. I advised all of you to upgrade to this latest release to fix the HTML injection vulnerability that has been mentioned previously in this blog.

Upgrading WordPress is easy, all you need to do is to deactivate your plugins and overwrite all your previous wordpress files (except themes) with the files from latest WordPress release (currently 2.0.6).

Finally, go to http://your-wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php to finish off your upgrade process.

I guess that’s all you need to know about upgrading your wordpress installation :)

[tags]wordpress, upgrade,blog,blogging,blogs[/tags]

Search Ubuntu Edgy Eft package from Mozilla Firefox

Have you noticed that the Mozilla Firefox build of Ubuntu has an extra search plugin that lets you search for Ubuntu Package Repository? I have, and sometimes I miss the functionality much if for some reason I had to use other operating system to do my work.

I need the search plugin because sometime I want to quickly check the Ubuntu software repository for certain packages while surfing the internet.

So to make things easy for me, I extracted the search plugin directly from my Ubuntu Linux installation and made it available for download. Now everybody can use this plugin to search Ubuntu Edgy softwares even if they are not using Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Edgy Package search plugin

[tags]ubuntu,firefox,edgy eft, linux, apt-get, repositories,gnu/linux, open source, mozilla,plugins[/tags]

Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Opensuse, and Mandriva search trends

Yesterday I was curious about Google Trends service that I tried several search terms just to get the feel of it. This is one of the interesting trends that I like to share with you, it is about the search term of popular GNU Linux distribution based on Distrowatch.com list.

Popular Linux distro trends

While this is not an in depth analysis, we can see the relative search term popularity for the past 3 years base on the graph generated from Google Trends.

From there we can see that people started to search for Ubuntu more than Fedora Core around the end of the first quarter of 2005 (around the time of Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog release).

Similarly, people started to search for Mandriva after MandrakeSoft changed it’s name to Mandriva around April 2005 (second quarter), and the announcement of openSUSE project in August 2005 (3rd quarter).

The ‘surges’ on Fedora Core’s line indicates new releases made around the time (FC 2 – May 2005, FC 3 – Nov 2005, FC 4 – Jun 2005, FC 5 – Mar 2006, FC 6 – Oct 2006) [source].

Conclusion : When you see anomalies like sudden ‘surges’ in the trend, then there must be some even closely associated with it. Watch for surges that repeats itself, then you can establish a pattern and understand what causing the recurring trends.

[tags]search terms, search engine, linux, distro, ubuntu, fedora core, trends, search[/tags]