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Wednesday, April 1. 2009

Amazon Has a Heart for Linux Users

Amazon MP3 downloader for Linux

Since today Amazon has opened its DRM free music store for German users.

Amazon seems to have a heart for Linux users. Have I missed something or is Amazon really the first MP3 music store that offers popular music from the biggest music labels that is DRM free and also accessible to Linux users at the same time?

There are binaries of the Amazon downloader available for Ubuntu 8.10, Debian 4, Fedora 9 and OpenSUSE 11.0. You can try it with the first free song download: This Much is True from Amy MacDonald.

Oh BTW: This is not an Aprils Fool joke. In case you are disappointed, watch this.

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Carsten Schlipf

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Monday, January 19. 2009

iPod touch remote for iTunes

I have a new toy. Last week I bought an iPod touch. My primary use case is remote controlling media in my home. I already have a HTPC in my living room with access to satellite TV, videos, photos and music. However, I always found it stupid to switch on my TV in order to choose music. I checked choices like Squeezebox Duet or the TEAC WAP-4500. Pretty nice toys starting around 250 EURO. But if you already have a PC, the iPod is about 200+ EURO extra. And it's a nice gadget too. So I ordered one and tried to run the free Remote app from Apple.

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Klaus Baumecker

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Monday, June 9. 2008

Views on Engineers

The German association of engineers (VDI [de]) has releases pretty funny Videos about engineers (unfortunately only in German). In these videos people are asked on the street about topics like

What is an engineer?
What are engineers doing?
Are engineers different somehow?
What do engineers carry around?
What do engineers like?
How to engineers dress themselve?

The answers are very funny. Have fun...

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Carsten Schlipf

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Thursday, May 29. 2008

Google Announces Its K.O.

But just by accident. They printed a T-Shirt with a binary code that should have said GOOGLEIO for attendees of the Google I/0 conference. However they forgot to include parity bits for their binary ASCII code and so a single bit was able to accidentially change its state and the result was GOOGLEKO

That's why business critical servers use EEC RAM

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Carsten Schlipf

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Thursday, March 13. 2008

Grab Your Bike

These guys must be absolutely crazy!

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Carsten Schlipf

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Wednesday, April 1. 2009

Amazon Has a Heart for Linux Users

Monday, January 19. 2009

iPod touch remote for iTunes

Monday, June 9. 2008

Views on Engineers

Thursday, May 29. 2008

Google Announces Its K.O.

Thursday, March 13. 2008

Grab Your Bike

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