Firefox 3rc1

Long time since last post - thought I’d welcome FF3rc1. They are getting there!
Installing Firefox in Debian is not as straight forward as in Ubuntu due to Iceweasel and something about copyrighted (not GNU) firefox logo (or whatever). I downloaded the source from mozilla.com and run Firefox in the directory. So it’s not really installed [...]

MPD - Music Player Daemon, MPC and Sonata

I thought maybe I would be satisfied with Decibel, and I am quite satisfied. But you got to love the idea of MPD! Along side the required MPC, the command line player, you have everything you would ever need from a simple audio-player.
Setting it up was not straight forward. It is not enough to install [...]

MPD: Fix sudden high cpu usage

Well, I have not actually posted that I have tried and installed MPD yet, but I found a bug. Suddenly the cpu usage jumps form around 2-5 % upto 25-30%! This is totally unacceptable!
Bug-report had already been filed, with a proposed tweak. I confirmed the bug, and that the tweak apparently works.
Tweak - fix sudden [...]

Decibel - an all-you-need-player

For those following my posts, I have a pretty bare install at the moment, ( Debian Lenny using LXDE+Openbox). So, in my search for a simple and intuitive mp3 player, I came across Decibel (see homepage). It is a lightweight audio-player, with a simplistic layout; a file-browser were you can change the root, and a [...]