Category Archives: Tools

Goodbye Launchpad

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Lukáš Lalinský

All Acoustid components are now migrated to GitHub: Chromaprint Acoustid Fingerprinter Acoustid Server Acoustid Index Chromaprint plug-in for GStreamer Even though I still prefer the idea of Bazaar, the tools built around Git and especially GitHub make it worth switching … Continue reading →

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Making Fail2ban with IPFW firewall on FreeBSD work

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Lukáš Lalinský

The internet is a nasty place, everybody is trying to hack into your servers if they are publicly accessible. Even though I always disable password authentication, so there is very little chance somebody could “guess” my private RSA key, I … Continue reading →

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MusicBrainz database replication

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

I wanted to work on the Acoustid lookup web service and for this I needed to setup a MusicBrainz replicated database slave. Normally I’d use the Perl code from mb_server, but I didn’t want to mess up the setup I … Continue reading →

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Custom file associations on GNOME

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

It seems that there is no GUI method settings associations for custom files in GNOME. I’ve had this problem before with dbmodel before. It writes save its data in XML files that end with the extension “.dmf”. The problem is … Continue reading →

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Cross-compiling with CMake and Autotools

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Lukáš Lalinský

The last time I needed to build a Windows binary, I found it easier to cross-compile it from Linux than to setup a development environment on a freshly installed Windows machine. The problem is that even though it’s not hard, … Continue reading →

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