1st October 2010
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Applications, Networking
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 an[...]
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27th September 2010
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Applications, Multimedia, Networking
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.carnatio[...]
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11th May 2010
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Applications
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 sam[...]
Tags: vmware
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7th May 2010
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Applications, System
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 su[...]
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