How to choose headphones?

Author: Bobola Akinola
Posted in Geek Stuff on July 8th, 2007 
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Want to buy headphones and don’t know which one is good enough?
Read through this guide describing the different types of headphones available, their pros and their cons
Remember that there are no perfect set of headphones

Noise-isolating earbuds: Noise-isolating ‘phones offer excellent seclusion from ambient or external noise–they can be equal or even superior to noise-canceling ‘phones.

Building Linux from Scratch

Author: Bayo Oyekole
Posted in GNU/Linux, Tips, Tweaks and Tricks, Linux on July 7th, 2007 
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Sometimes you just want to have more power than the average GNU/Linux distribution puts in your hands. Ordering the entire Debian Etch DVD collection is taking longer than I thought, so I opted to build my Linux using my own chosen collection of software. After some thorough searching, I came upon the site Linux from Scratch, which gives instructions on building your own ddistribution. There is a sort of twist, in that you need an existing,functional installation of Linux to build linux! In my case, i had Ubuntu on my laptop a Toshiba Tecra TE2300 (I have not found a single review on this laptop on the internet, not even a simple spec list! That is a topic for another article…). Miraculously, all the hardware on my laptop is detected and working. The only problem i have is, downloading build-essential package with an inconsistent network/internet connection had been frustrating: sometimes the dependent packages would install, and an attempt to compile would tell me crt1.o could not be found.Fortunately the LFS (Linux From Scratch) team provides a functional LiveCD, which you can use to begin your foray in to the wild, wild, world of Linux software compilation.