various photographs and (oh too few) mini linux tips
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
just replaced the firmware (think operating system) on my sansa fuze v1 (8gb model) with the open source rockbox. when using the sansa’s original software i was getting jumpy playback and i wasn’t terribly fond of the interface.
rockbox has a vast array of features and can be customised and fine tuned to suit the user’s needs and tastes.
the firmware, currently, only works with the first generation of the sansa fuze (v1) not the second generation (v2) so check your players version before attempting anything. it also supports various other mp3 players so see if yours is supported…
there’s an automatic installer available but i chose the manual method.
really enjoy using it so far. lots of features to tinker with and last.fm scrobbling support!
a couple of screen shots of available themes…
Cabbie-enhanced-info by Bernd Fischer
FuzeRock by Terry Dale
this isn’t a review but thought i’d write about the fact that i just upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 from ubuntu 9.04 on my main laptop (a dell inspiron 1545) and everything is functioning very nicely.
grab the iso here. i stuck it onto a usb key using unetbootin and was ready to go (obviously backing up all important data before proceeding!).
i keep my home directories on a separate (encrypted) partition so formatted / and /boot but left the rest alone.
the install really is beautifully simple…it’s been well streamlined over the years (a far cry from when i started using ubuntu back with dapper) and was complete in 10 minutes or so. all hardware was detected out of the box…the correct resolution set for the panel, network connections working (wired and wireless), sound playback and function keys all ok too. after running apt-get update quite a lot of updates are installed even though this is a recent release…after this is complete we end up with the 2.6.32–11-generic #15-ubuntu smp kernel.
happily using this as my main system…encountered very few bugs so far (and they were trivial).
just a glass of vodka and coke. used a wide aperture to create a nice depth of field and then tweaked the colours using curves in the gimp.