June 20th, 2009 by acmelab68
µTorrent is told to run on Linux through Wine. Well – version 1.8.3 does not, at least not for me. I’m using Jaunty Jackalope (9.04, x86_64), and the installation process just stops after the last button press.
The installation window disappears but doesn’t actually crash. The log on the console ends with these lines:
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS; STUB
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap (0x5d0000, 0x0) stub
Unfortunately I haven’t found the reason, why it’s not working. But after a while I’ve just tried an older version (1.8.2), and it instantly start working right after the installation. Continue reading ‘[solved] uTorrent 1.8.3 doesn’t install on Linux via Wine’
June 13th, 2009 by acmelab68
Mondo is an excellent backup tool for Linux, which can do a backup of a running system and afterward perform disaster recovery, if your system should ever crash.
It is open source and is part of the Debian repository. In order to install it just perform a Continue reading ‘Workaround buggy Mondo UI on Jaunty Jackalope (9.04)’
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June 11th, 2009 by acmelab68
Some time ago I wrote an article about renaming multiple filenames [1]. Now it happened I needed to rename several subtitles for Star Trek Enterprise because, I’m using a self-made mplayer-wrapper script to load subtitles automatically. Therefor the subtitle filename, usually a Sub Rip Text (.srt) file from tvsubtitles have to be in a form like S01E01 or 1x24.
The two according lines in my mplayer-vdpau wrapper script, which I use in My Media System (MMS) looks like this: Continue reading ‘Sed – Renaming with Linux [Part 2]‘
May 6th, 2009 by acmelab68
It’s a shame! Rsync is an old, stable, field-tested, nice, quick and versatile tool for backups. And if you had bad luck, like I did, and just cut and pasted the first best example found on the Internet, and that example didn’t behave the way I thought it supposed to, you are lost, because all the solution I found at Google at the first page, sound more like voodoo, rather than a real and reasonable explanation. 
Continue reading ‘How To Vanquish Rsync’
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