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• networks 33
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Rip, Convert, Listen

http://www.linux-mag.com/2004-11/diy_01.html

Rip with Grip, including suggested settings.

Encode later with oggenc.

Krename is a great program that allows you to batch rename files. Get it at http://www.krename.net. Read the instructions -- it's an amazingly powerful program.

Note: Also useful for renaming photos!!

Finally, it's a good idea to add the hidden metadata that most music players display when you're listening to a song. For that, you want to use a wonderful program named EasyTAG, available at http://easytag.sourceforge.net.

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SmokePing

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/index.en.html

SmokePing is a delux latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm datastore and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.

SmokePing uses latency measurement plugins for seamless extendability.

Now live at http://mrtg.its.monash.edu/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

Note: probes::SSH calculates latency using POSIX::times ticks/100. This should probably be /1000 on Linux, and another /8 to allow for the multiple round-trip times in a ssh-keyscan probe.

see also EchoPing
http://echoping.sourceforge.net/

see also SpeedyCGI
http://daemoninc.com/speedycgi/

see also fping
http://www.fping.com/

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