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Everyone needs to add more music to everyday life from time to time to get relax. I personally prefer to discover new music trends using websites for free music downloads, it’s one of the best ways to relax and forgot about all the problems (that’s besides biking of course). One of such websites is www.mp3-2000.com — now you can browse, search and download free and legal music easy way. Just in a few clicks.
How it works? www.mp3-2000.com manages the database of all the music that is available in Internet for free but legally. After many years of development and populating of the database this website stores massive array of free music downloads available for everyone.
Considering to buy some music albums from Amazon for $7.99 each? I would recommend to check www.mp3-2000.com as the chances to find those music in its database and then download them legally for free are pretty high. Search engine that is embedded into the website makes it possible to search the music by album, artist and song. While writing this review www.mp3-2000.com has indexed 1,502,301 songs!
The index page always shows 50 of the most popular songs so it is worth to be added to favorites 
It is also very important for me that there is no need to complete any registrations to download free music, I can just search what I need and then download mp3 for free.
The easiest way to split, merge or edit pdf files in Ubuntu is to use pdftk utility. This rather old (latest version was released in 2006) but still simple and powerful program can be installed in Ubuntu (Debian or any deb-family Linux distribution) by the following command in terminal:
sudo aptitude install pdftk
(if you run Fedora, RedHat or CentOS use this one: sudo yum install pdftk)
Split large pdf into many one-page files:
pdftk largepdfile.pdf burst
(as the result you will get many small files like pg_0001.pdf, pg_0002.pdf and so on).
Merge files into one PDF file:
pdftk *.pdf cat output onelargepdfile.pdf
pdftk is extremely powerful and makes it possible to do almost anything with input pdf files. Thus above two commands are just examples showing how to split and merge pdf files in Ubuntu easily.
Recently I’ve bought WD TV media player for streaming full HD movies (primarily in 1080p resolution) to my home TV from external storage like usb HDD or ipod classic. You might already know that size of average HD movie rip is more than 4GB (e.g. full HD Avatar movie image is literally 21 GB mkv file) so it’s just impossible to store such huge files on any FAT32 formatted HDD or ipod. My ipod classic 160 GB is windows formatted so it uses FAT32 filesystem where maximum file size is 4 GB. As far as ipod cannot be formatted into ext3 but still be able to play music (just sweet dreams) I have to split huge files to 3.99GB parts and store them to my ipod for later reassemble. When it’s time to watch the some HD movie stored at ipod it’s required to assemble those 3.99 GB parts into one solid file, transfer it to media player and then actually watch the movie.
Rather long preface but solution is quite simple. If u run Ubuntu you can try lxsplit utility for breaking files into parts (binary packages for other Linux distributions as well as source code are available at lxsplit project’s homepage.):
sudo apt-get install lxsplit
In order to split some file in 3.99GB parts use the following command:
lxsplit -s /path/to/hugemoviefile.mkv 3999M
Depending on size of hugemoviefile.mkv you will get several parts hugemoviefile.mkv.001, hugemoviefile.mkv.002 and so on stored in current directory. It means that if you’re going to store those parts on some external storage like ipod you can do the following:
cd /media/ipod/
lxsplit -s /path/to/hugemoviefile.mkv 3999M
and hugemoviefile.mkv.001.. will saved in /media/ipod/ directory regardless where hugemoviefile.mkv is located.
Now coming to assembling procedure. It’s just as easy as splitting:
lxsplit -j hugemoviefile.mkv.001
Once done you will get hugemoviefile.mkv saved in current directory.
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Does anybody know if it’s possible to make Ubuntu/Linux laptop to work as a usb slave drive? Here are people who also need this but still didn’t find any workable solution: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7780737
Preparing for Cisco certification exam and need real equipment required to accomplish all those CCNA or CCNP labs? That’s not a problem any more. This is due to availability of Packet Tracer for Linux and Community Lab hosted by people behind packetlife.net. As for Packet Tracer it supports Linux natively now — Cisco offers it as deb package for Ubuntu or Debian and there is no need to use Wine to get Packet Tracer working in Linux. Try searching the web for “packet tracer deb” and I am sure you’ll find where to download desired file shortly (we do not share pirated content here).
Anyways sometimes Packet Tracer as like as dynamips/gns3 are not a panacea when it’s necessary to emulate mid-sized network or test some specific ios features on real Cisco devices. There are several options: the first and the easiest one means to buy Cisco device. But we all know that Cisco’s pricing policy is far away from democratic in application to individual users so even used or refurbished Cisco router/switch will cost enough to think about another option. Second option is to schedule access to Community Lab at packetlife.net. Nice to know the access to it is absolutely free so anyone can get logon to Cisco routers, switches or ASAs once user reached his/her timeslot. Here is the list of hardware you can have access to (there are multiple devices of the same model):
Cisco ASA 5505
Cisco 2811 (2xWIC-2T)
Cisco 1841 (1xWIC-2T)
Cisco Catalyst 3550-24
Not bad for free lab as for me. The lab is broken into two blocks so user can reserve only one block or both blocks simultaneously. This is to make it possible to access the lab by multiple users simultaneously. Devices are connected to each other according to predefined topology — see separate diagrams for Ethernet and Serial connections below (they are split to prevent overhead on the graph I guess). All documentation as well as FAQs can be found here: here and here. Thanks to Jeremy Stretch.
P.S. By the way if you can share any other similar labs allowing people on the web to access Cisco (or some other networking devices) — you are welcome to share this information here. Thanks!
