The 3rd Edition of The Art of Electronics is finally out!

The 3rd Edition (2015; the previous ones were of 1989 and 1980 respectively) of The Art of Electronics masterpiece (by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill) has been finally released by the Cambridge University Press!
And this great book looks impressive at least: consisting of more than 1000 pages, weighing more than 2 kg (handle with care!) and costing more than 100 USD (at the start of the sales; beware of counterfeit versions though!).

Links:

1. The Art of Electronics on Wikipedia
2. The official Art of Electronics website
   1. Errata | The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition
3. The Art of Electronics (3rd Edition) on Amazon.com

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Last updated: 2019-04-24

HOWTO: get a highest-resolution version of an image on Last.fm

Sometimes you can find an interesting picture on Last.fm, but don't have an obvious option to zoom in. Fortunately, sometimes you can view it in a better quality too (it depends on the originally uploaded image resolution):

1. First of all, copy the URL of a necessary image; you should get something like this:

   http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/35346791/RJ+Test+Artist+1+knifefighttypepadcom.jpg

2. Then you'll need to modify the URL a little; just replace the entire substring consisting of alphanumeric characters between the two slashes after the "serve" word and before the image number with a single underscore:

   http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/35346791/RJ+Test+Artist+1+knifefighttypepadcom.jpg

3. Just paste the modified image URL into your browser's address bar and enjoy the (big) picture!

Audio file tag editors

Here are some of my favourite audio file (music etc.) tagging / tag editing applications.

1. Free, open-source, multi-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, MS Windows etc.)
   • EasyTAG
   • MusicBrainz Picard (audio fingerprinting powered by AcoustID)
2. Free, closed-source, Win32 only.
   • Mp3tag

Firmware update downloads for some Samsung HDDs

Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD business back in 2011, nevertheless the existing firmware updates for some legacy Samsung HDDs are not available for download from the official Seagate site (look here).
So here are some firmware update download links collected from public sources :)

Model	Family	Firmware version (latest known)	Download
HD501LJ	SpinPoint T166	CR100-13	Dell / Drivers / R180581

Outdated important software packages in Debian unstable

• 2014-06:
  1. util-linux
     • upstream: 2.25-rc1
     • Debian: 2.20.1-5.8
       • bug #678446
  2. coreutils
     • upstream: 8.22
     • Debian: 8.21-1.2
  3. parted
     • upstream: 3.1
     • Debian: 2.3-20
       • bug #678446
  4. libjpeg
     • upstream: 9a
     • Debian: 8d-2
       • bug #646130

Debian bug numbers get added if known. The packages are organized in collections by date. Updated ones should get striked out.