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August 6th, 2009

Why fstab's permissions are so important

Screenshot-6 Hey, folks! I had one problem some time ago. It was connected with mounting removable media. It didn’t work at all for non-root user. I set up /etc/group and /etc/passwd correctly, but it still didn’t work. I have known the /etc/fstab file, I have known what is this for, so I checked this configuration file out, too. It was correct. I really didn’t know what’s going on. Then I realized I made /etc/fstab file by myself, just like other configuration files. I often make files in other folder and then replace default files by my own files, especially when it is really needed. I had to grapple with fstab, because I had to migrate files from one partition to another, because of used file system.

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By Szymon Barczak • Posted in Knowledge • No Comment
August 5th, 2009

What to do if your music application stops scrobbling

last-fm_logo Some time ago I had a problem with scrobbling. It didn’t work at all. There was no such application where scrobbling worked fine but Music On Console with lastfmsubmitd. But listening to music in console is not what I wanted to do. I tried applications written in Python also as in Java. After some time I figured out what’s going on and where’s the problem. There’s my solution.

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By Szymon Barczak • Posted in Tips and tricks • No Comment
August 5th, 2009

My music abilities

Screenshot-11 I found some tests for music abilities at the Net. I checked out my score and I figured out I’m not so bad at hearing music and sounds. If you want to take these test, just go to jakemendell.com and find out something interesting. My scores:

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By Szymon Barczak • Posted in My life • No Comment