Dropbox is a nifty little application that lets you sync and share files on the Internet and between several computers. Want to send a movie to a friend? Use Dropbox. Want to have a common folder for pictures that you and your girlfriend can update on different computers? Use Dropbox. The problem with Dropbox is… Read More »
All you need to record a live stream from the web is MPlayer. Use the -dumpstream argument to capture a MMS, ASF or Live WMV stream to a file called stream.dump. For example: mplayer -dumpstream mmsh://streamer3.carnation.hu/mtvonlinem2?MSWMExt=.asf will create a stream.dump file that you can later rename to my_recorded_stream.wmv.Note: this will not work with Flash-powered streams.
After you upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid, you might have noticed that VMWare has stopped working and can’t compile one of it’s modules. The solution to this is simple: download this patch and this script in the same directory. Make the script executable with chmod +x patch-modules.sh and run it with ./patch-modules.sh Answer with “Y” to… Read More »
When running older .RUN and .BIN archives in Linux, you might get the following (or a similar) error: Verifying archive integrity…tail: cannot open `+6′ for reading: No such file or directoryError in check sums 1237260170 2341625838The solution is to make the installer believe it’s being run on an older version of GNU/Linux. Open a Terminal… Read More »