Filesystems

Creating ext3 You might want to enable additional features using tune2fs. feature may be one of the following: feature Description large_file If you have files > 2GiB, this flag should be automatically set by the kernel. dir_index Uses hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. sparse_super Limits the number of backup superblocks to… Read More »

Alternatives to Windows applications

Windows application(s) Linux equivalent(s) Adobe Photoshop GIMP Adobe Illustrator Inkscape AeroFlyFMS CRRCSim ElStEr Taxbird foobar2000 RhythmboxMPD with pympd Google Earth Marble (or try their WinE-Version) IrfanView GQview Microsoft Office OpenOffice.org Miranda Pidgin Nero Nero Linux Picasa F-Spot (or try their WinE-Version) PopTray mail-notification PortableAppsU3 PorToolsl-portableKlik Putty CM + PuTTY grcm or ~/.ssh/config StarMoney Moneyplex (or… Read More »

VirtualBox

Compacting a disk image Applications for overwriting empty blocks Eraser (Windows) [ Homepage ] Install as normal. Then go to Edit → Preferences → Erasing… and select the second Tab Unused disk space. Create a new method with one pass and a pattern of only zeroes. Now go to the “On Demand”-Tasks and create a… Read More »

PArchive

Homepage: sourceforge.net From the homepage: The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. Parchive can be used to add recovery records to e.g. a DVD. How to do this is described on Mike… Read More »

ID3 tagging & Album Art on the FUZE

The FUZE does not (since firmware 1.2.26/2.2.26) support ID3v2.4. But it does support ID3v2.3 and as it appears not only in ISO-8859-1 encoding but also in UTF-16. Genres The FUZE seems to understand only a few Genres by ID which are listed in the firmware file:Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Dance, Disco, Funk, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Jazz,… Read More »

SanDisk Sansa MTP mode

The Sansa differentiates between songs transferred via MTP mode and those transferred via MSC mode. The demo songs are all in the MTP area and thus you won’t see them when looking at the device in MSC mode. But it is possible, to mount the device in MTP mode also. You just have to install… Read More »

Rhythmbox and Sansa

To work with the FUSE in Rhythmbox, you have two choices: MTP mode or MSC mode. The MTP mode is the Media Transfer Protocol which the Windows Media Player uses. There’s a plugin for Rhythmbox which lets the player show up and you are able to manage the player from there. The MSC mode is… Read More »

SanDisk Sansa Video format

The Sansa is very picky about what file to play and what not. The demo video has the following format: Encoding According to this post the Any Video Converter should be able to convert videos for the FUZE. The Settings are:

SanDisk Sansa Feature Bits

The Sansa’s have different features for different countries/regions. E.g. the Japanese radio frequencies ranging from 76 to 90 MHz are partly used for Police radio and thus it is not allowed to tune to these forbidden frequencies. SanDisk achieved this by removing the Japan region from the Radio region selector. In European models of the… Read More »