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Ringtones on my RAZR V3 in Linux

Posted May 17, 2006 - 12:18am by Stephen Evanchik
I just got a Motorola RAZR V3 when I changed my cellphone plan. It is a really nice phone that I can connect to my computer using a USB cable. I decided that I wanted a custom ringtone instead of the default. It's not a difficult process at all but there is a lot of information scattered around the Intarweb that makes it difficult. Here is my summary process: # Find something you want to use as your ringtone. It can be an mp3 or wav file or whatever. # Convert to wav file if its not already there, minimal survival command: mplayer -ao pcm filename.mp3. You should now have a *audiodump.wav* file. # Download and use Audacity to cut the audiodump.wav to about 20 seconds (mine is 18) # Save the clipped wav file and then encode it to mp3, minimal survival command: lame -b 64 -s 44.1 -mm --tt "Title" cutsound.wav output.mp3

Update and theme change

Posted May 13, 2006 - 11:05pm by Stephen Evanchik
Wow, it has been a long time since I updated my blog. I stumbled upon Open Web Design because I was hacking my WRT54GS with OpenWRT. The OpenWRT web interface uses a layout from Open Web Design and it prompted me to check out the site. I found that many of the example layouts can be adapted to a Drupal theme in about 10 minutes. My new theme is much better than the old one - it was a bit embarrassing to have such an ugly site for so long. Anyway, not too much going on, I am in the process of working with the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM. I am on the strategic planning committe and am running for President! GBC/ACM Members should make sure their dues are paid up and come to the June 15th meeting and vote. See the Real Times for information about the candidates.

Gas Prices and Web UI for the OpenWRT Project

Posted November 16, 2005 - 10:12pm by Stephen Evanchik
Hah Tim! The gas station on the corner here has regular unleaded for $1.95!!! Anyway, I am readying the web UI framework I created for the OpenWRT proejct. They didn't have one when I originally started but now they have an "alpha" one that doesn't have all the functionality of the original Linksys firmware images. I am almost ready for a first release, targeted for Friday, so watch this space for more information!

Workstation crashed, filesystem corrupted

Posted November 1, 2005 - 8:41am by Stephen Evanchik

The title says it all folks. This is the first time in my Linux usage history (which begins somewhere in 1995-1996) that I have had a workstation crash due to something out of my control. I will admit that I have caused my workstations to crash a number of times due to my own stupidity or carelessness, no sense in denying that.


What is very different in this case is that my workstation crashed this morning due to a kernel bug and what's more this is the worst kind of bug -- one that is known to exist.

Over the course of the last few days I have had several incidents where I had to reboot the computer and do a n extended, manual filesystem check because of the following error:

EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted


TrackPoint driver for 2.6.14

Posted October 28, 2005 - 7:36am by Stephen Evanchik

According to the ChangeLog for the 2.6.14 kernel, the TrackPoint driver is now in Linus' tree. Here's the ChangeLog entry:

commit 541e316aed6f7d6efeb427a88645c2a8f61418d6
Author: Stephen Evanchik <evanchsa@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 8 01:26:18 2005 -0500

    Input: psmouse - add support for IBM TrackPoint devices.
    
    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

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