Friday, September 27, 2013
VirtualBox USB Support
Just upgraded my Virtualbox on Wheezy and found out that it now has USB support. All I had to do was download Oracle Virtualbox Extension pack and add me to vboxusers group.
This is going to be a nice thing because now I do not have to reboot my machine with XP just to vpn to my work PC. The guest XP was able to recognize my smart card reader. I installed Card OS in the guest OS and everything worked perfectly!
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Correcting a juvenile mistake
If you are past twenty, I bet you had some moments like this in your life; where you fall for the fancy shiny things even though there isn't any good stuffs in those. Since you are a kid at that time, you can easily ignore those mistakes.
For me, when I first ungraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP in fall of 2002, I fell for Windows Media Player 7. I was really fancy and much better than it's predecessor. Also it seemed like WinAmp was a redundancy in my system. And then it happened. I don't know why I did this but I started ripping my music in Microsoft's native wma format ditching mp3.
I carried along these wma files with me half way across the globe. But on last weekend, when I was copying music to my phone to play on new car stereo, I found that my android does not support wma natively. Then I said, "OK! This is it". I have to get rid of these shitty things. And I finally did with this simple shell script that I hacked from various internet sources. It recursively goes in the directories and looks for wma files. Once it finds them, it converts them to mp3 and deletes the original ones.
For me, when I first ungraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP in fall of 2002, I fell for Windows Media Player 7. I was really fancy and much better than it's predecessor. Also it seemed like WinAmp was a redundancy in my system. And then it happened. I don't know why I did this but I started ripping my music in Microsoft's native wma format ditching mp3.
I carried along these wma files with me half way across the globe. But on last weekend, when I was copying music to my phone to play on new car stereo, I found that my android does not support wma natively. Then I said, "OK! This is it". I have to get rid of these shitty things. And I finally did with this simple shell script that I hacked from various internet sources. It recursively goes in the directories and looks for wma files. Once it finds them, it converts them to mp3 and deletes the original ones.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Commute
My commute to work just received a huge upgrade. Last weekend, I changed my car stereo with a new one which has an aux port. Now I am listening my coursera lectures on my way to work. Life is awesome!
Monday, September 9, 2013
Note to Self
It looks so wonderful from outside, that I am almost sold to the idea.
But, deep inside, my stupid-rational brain knows that it's a trap...a trap that I have seen so many times...if it happens it will only bring inconvenience to all those people I love and also to me :(
I wish I knew a way out!
But, deep inside, my stupid-rational brain knows that it's a trap...a trap that I have seen so many times...if it happens it will only bring inconvenience to all those people I love and also to me :(
I wish I knew a way out!
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