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Tracking the number of downloads from google code svn repositories in real time is not currently possible. There is talk of adding this feature to google analytics in the future, but no official announcement has been made. Read on to learn how track downloads using Munin.

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Installing the SDK for google’s Android platform can be a rather cumbersome process. To save you some time, I have created a Virtualbox Virtual Machine with Eclipse and Android SDK 1.5 r2 preinstalled.

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This post announces the creation of the Sinthgunt project, an open source graphical user interface for ffmpeg, a computer program that can convert digital audio and video into numerous formats. Sinthgunt is now running code, is under active development, and is looking for both developers and testers.

Home page: www.sinthgunt.org

Features:
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Spinning down external usb hard drives in Ubuntu doesn’t allways happen automatically in Ubuntu. To force a spindown, you can issue the command

sync
sdparm --flexible --command=stop /dev/sdX &>/dev/null

where you should replace the sdX entry by the correct name of your external hard drive (usually sdb, sdc or similar).
To do this automatically every 30 minutes, save the code below as e.g. ~/bin/spindown/spindown.sh.
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