Rick Hurst Web Developer in Bristol, UK

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Month: November 2004

mobile music

The £2.50 I spent on a headphone adapter for my Treo, (combined with the 500mb sd card) has proved to be an excellent investment as I find myself with a digital music player. Not quite an iPod, but enough to get a few albums on. The view out of the window on the train to and from London yesterday was accompanied by Queens of the stone age, The Jayhawks and Snow Patrol.

I used to listen to a walkman all the time, and this tailed off when I made the mistake of buying an early CD Walkman that skipped and had about 10 seconds of battery life, then I made the mistake of buying an early MP3 CD Player, that also skipped and was fussy about what files it played. I gave up after that, coveted the iPod for a while but couldn’t justify buying one.

As I always carry my phone (love/hate relationship), even a trip to Papa Costa Deli to buy Caribbean pasties is accompanied by the sounds of ROCK.

unpack a bz2 file on windows

I downloaded an exe from here, then opened a terminal, navigated to the directory where I saved it then typed the file name of the app followed by –decompress then the filename of the bz2 file I wanted to decompress

C:datasoftware>bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe –decompress myfile.bz2

use

C:datasoftware>bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe –help

to get other options