Ubuntu: A customização perfeita para o Brasil
Para você, quais softwares / configurações deveriam vir por padrão
num computador vendido com Ubuntu Linux no Brasil?
Happy birthday to me / Parabéns para mim
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Uhuu! Today (17/02) I’m getting older… I mean, more experient 
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Uhuu! Hoje (17/02) Eu fico mais velho… digo, mais experiente
CBC.ca Radio in ogg vorbis
Yeah! One more reason for loving Canada!
As some of you may know, I’m studying the English Language in Vancouver, Canada (Business English and Proficiency). Today, while working on a project for a client in Brazil, I was looking for a way to hear the CBC (I usually hear it on the way for the college on my Generic Ipod).
After accessing their website and going through the regular way, I was unable to hear the radio streaming with mplayer. Googling cbc + linux, I found this article, Adopting Ubuntu… good reading, but not what I wanted. So I googled again for listen+cbc+linux
This time, I found “my precious“: some informations about streaming + cbc + linux/*NIX. But (and there’s always a but) as they are testing the CBC streaming under Ogg Vorbis format, they only let two options to choose for: CBC Radio One, and CBC Radio Two. If you want CBC+Ogg, that’s all you can have. It just works!
On the other hand, you can access the “All url streams page” and see a lot of streaming options (tons of cities and 16 or 32 kbps options). I don’t know why, mplayer neither vlc weren’t able to open it… Totem and Gxine did the trick. Was only a matter of runing the command followed by the streaming url, or going in File, Open Streaming… (or something like this) and pasting the url there.
I would like to let here my sincerely congratulations to the CBC.ca staff for making their content available, using open formats and remembering the *NIX crew. Thank you!
PS: I am learning the English language! Feel free to correct any word or sentence you find here by putting it on the comments. Believe me: you will help a lot! Thank you!
Factoid 2
Based on Luis de Bethencourt’s post, here goes another factoid…
12345679 * 8 = 98765432
cool!
