Tonight, I set up amaroK and FreeNX. You can find them both mentioned in the latest Linux.ars article.

amaroK

amaroK is a KDE music app that is reminiscient of iTunes or Rhythmbox, but with more features. It tells you when you last played a song, when it was first played, how many times it has been played, and even recommends other songs based on what you’re listening to.

Lyrics can be viewed through the playlist window and your recent playlist can be pulished on the internet through Audioscrobbler. Free registration, email not required. My profile can be found here.

To install amaroK for Ubuntu, here’s what you need to do:
sudo apt-get install amarok amarok-xine
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Well, I got up this morning, and what do I find? A computer that won’t let me log in and a terminal full of spam about /dev/hda6 errors.

So, after trying to fix it with a Knoppix disk and e2fsck, I end up reinstalling the OS and making use of my backups to get things set back up.

All in all, about 3 hours worth of work (although WordPress took up the last hour of it). The annoying thing is that I didn’t have a backup of the mysql database, so I lost the previous posts, but I’ll try to reconstruct them.

EDIT: The Gmail post from earlier this morning has been reposted.