After some research it turned out, that it is easily possible to convert WAV to ULAW in directly using SOX. The following command works like charm:

find . -name \*.wav -exec sox -V {} -r 8000 -c 1 -t ul -w {}.ulaw \;

The Hacker’s Browser. Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.

Can anybody please tell me, what the f**k “File and Printer Sharing” has got to do with ICMP in Windows?

In order to see what exactly is going on when vchanger tries to load a volume, I ran:


strace -f vchanger /etc/bacula/vchanger.conf -u bacula -g disk load 8 usbchanger1 0


You’ll never guess what the problem was! I forgot to set the number of reserved blocks to zero when preparing the file system of the disks, so from a normal users perspective the disk was just out of space.

Here you can see the important lines of the strace call:
open("/mnt/vchanger/donnerstag/loaded0", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb77c2000
write(5, "usbchanger1_0004_0008\n"..., 22) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device)
close(5) = 0

A tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdc1 solved the problem, but why isn’t vchanger’s first load failing with an error message that tells me that it was not possible to update the loaded0 file? I think I am going to write a patch for this now.

UPDATE: Here is my patch to correctly interrupt loading and write useful log information: diskmanager.patch

Im uebrigen hat mich das Datenschutzsystem auch ueberzeugt. Um irgendwas bzgl. eines bestehenden Vertrags zu besprechen oder zu aendern, muss man dem Mitarbeiter die eigene Mobilfunknummer mitteilen. Darauf hin bekommt man einen Sicherheitscode per SMS geschickt. Diesen nennt man dem Mitarbeiter und erst dann hat er Zugriff auf die Vertragsdaten. Sicherheitshalber ist auch noch der Name abgefragt worden. Ich denke das ist vorbildlich.

I had a glimpse at a Motorola’s Xoom tablet and am really asking myself why Apple does not jerk Motorola to court for the Xoom tablet too. It also looks exactly like the design patent of Apple’s iPadany $TABLET_PC.

Fridge vs. Apple’s iPad seems to become true if our judges don’t start using their brains very soon. Ever asked yourselves how all the television manufacturers can survive if the devices look so similar!?

Finally I’ve got only two words for you, Apple: FUCK YOU!
You can be sure I’ll never buy or use one of your devices.

EDIT: One day later I bought my 10.1N at a nearby Media Markt store. Although both stores belong to the same group, they seem to deal differently with the Galaxy Tab issue. So I now own a 10.N for more than two weeks and haven’t regret it yet.

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Hit me if I’m wrong but the above statement is always TRUE. Exception might be IPv6. But as that article probably beeing a few years old, I don’t think they had IPv6 on their mind.