I thought I’d put some of my favourite comedies all on the same DVD so I could watch them when whatever’s on TV bites arse (which is most of the time). I don’t know how to do that in Linux (not with a menu, at least) so I ripped them and chose the episodes I […]

Apparently, the Lyra either “works or doesn’t” because the files are the same for all models, so that means I can’t play mp3 (seems no one knows why that happens), but that doesn’t mean I have to use icky-picky ol’ Windows. DbPoweramp works fine under Wine (technically Crossover Office), I can convert to wma with […]

I was digging around in a junk drawer and came across my old RCA Lyra mp3 player, so I decided to see whether it still works. I have the old parallel port reader somewhere, and I’m sure I have the software that came with it (also somewhere), but a CF card is a CF card […]