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Quick tip - how to extract audio from youtube videos

Here is a quick tip for extracting audio from youtube videos. I assume you have a reasonably recent linux distribution. (Things might work on other operating systems as well as all the applications that I mention below are ported to other operating systems)
Step 1: Download the flash video file from youtube. Either use greasemonkey script [...]

Posted 27 October 2007 † amit § Linux § audio § software ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Rescuing hosed server

This post describes the steps that I took to restore an old server which had died some months back.
I had a linux server running debian pretty reliably. It had failed because of a hardware problems (broken power supply). I replaced the power supply and proceeded to make it current with security fixes. But as it [...]

Posted 09 January 2007 † amit § Linux § Misc ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,