Moving your iTunes media library without losing its metadata

It’s always painfully annoying when your hard drive dies on you (especially if you haven’t made any backup). This just happened to poor me. :'( Fortunately enough, I have got into the habit of making weekly backups of everything I have. In other words, I didn’t lose any data at all. This should be a lesson to all of you who doesn’t back up your important files! Anyway, I therefore needed to move my iTunes library to a new drive. It turned out that there is no easy way of …

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Remap a broken key

I recently had to fix a broken space key on the keyboard of a netbook. My first thought was to remove and check the broken key to check if it could be fixed. I found a temporary solution by increasing the pressure on it, but it just helped for a short time. Then I realized that it was of course possible to simply remap the key to another key which would probably never be used. The system was fortunately Ubuntu, so with the power of the terminal at my hands …

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That's awesome!

Awesome could best be described by one word ‒ Awesome. I was never very fond of this slightly adolescent word used heavily by characters similar to Kelly from The Office. Nevertheless, I have come to change my mind lately, due to my entry into a new and exciting world consisting of tiling window managers. They always seemed a bit too hackerish, strange, and difficult to use for my taste in the past, but having used the tiling window manager named Awesome for just 4 days has made me completely change …

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Lion as Big Brother

The Lion is about to arrive in the summer of 2011. The moment I heard about the direction Apple is planning to take I felt slightly worried thinking that this will turn into be beginning of the end of this for me mostly very nice and comfortable platform. My thoughts were that the decision to merge the Mac with iOS may make it even more restrictive than previously. At the same time, the introduction of the Mac Store will probably make the software development take off rather quickly making it …

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Through Firesheep comes awareness

Chaos and anarchy can be a wonderful thing. Before things can get better, it is sometimes necessary for matters to become worse. Obvious chaos and trouble are states which make people open up their eyes to reality. This is exactly what happened about two weeks ago. A clever programmer named Eric Butler has written and released a Firefox extension named Firesheep on Github, making it freightenly easy for anyone without even the slightest knowledge in the field of hacking to hack and aquire access to anyone’s Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, etc. …

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