FM on linux

Here is a site that allows you to choose the music you love to hear.

http://www.last.fm/ 

Encyclopedia for sale

This is a forward I got in my email…read on

FOR SALE BY OWNER:
Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes
Excellent condition
$1,000 or best offer
No longer needed,  got married last month.
Wife knows everything.

Stupid in America

Streaming Live Music

CBC Toronto Canada is testing streaming live music from its station usinig (Linux) Ogg Vorbis format

The links are below

Ogg Vorbis stream of CBC Radio Two

Ogg Vorbis stream of CBC Radio One

You can also listen to the music using Rhythmbox in Linux.

Just copy the link and add new radio station. Sound quality is quite good.

Installing programs in Ubuntu – Linux

After installing Ubuntu / Linux on my home computer one of the difficulties I faced was trying to install programs. When I saw interesting programs I downloaded the files but had no clue as to how I could install them. Later I realized .deb files were pretty easy but if I found a tar.gz or tar.bz2 things were not so comfortable.

This is what I do right now for tar.gz.

First I download the file to a known directory.

Of course you can change into any directory using cd “directory / folder name”.

Work from this directory for the next command.

“tar xvzf name.tar.gz“

(where name is the name of the package)

Change into the directory of the package

“./configure“

“make“

“make install“

All of these commands are done in normal mode you don’t have to work as superuser.