Tuesday, October 19, 2010

remove old kernels

find kernels
dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep linux | grep -e headers -e image -e modules
aptitude purge every one having version number lower than the highest.

EDIT: Is it really safe to remove modules?

See also cleaning after package managers.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

gimp win language

For some reason, by default, Gimp runs in french on my 7(English) desktop. I didn't find any option to change language, in Gimp or GTK. So, to start Gimp in English, make a batch file containing something like:
set lang=en
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\bin
gimp-2.6.exe

cleaning after package managers

Once in a while, it may be a good idea to remove unneeded files generated by package managers. Downloaded package updates are not deleted after use, so we may end up with a lot of wasted space after several weeks.

On Ubuntu (10.04), those files are located under /var/cache/apt/archives and can be removed by doing:
aptitude clean
 See also remove old kernels.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

file type association win7

cmd as admin (using powershell does not work, why?)
assoc
ftype

assoc .rar=7zip
assoc .rar=

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

pmp2

Il y a encore des problèmes que je ne comprends pas avec le Cowon D2+. Mêmes des files qui ont l'air bien taggé sont parfois mal lus. Je devrais faire plus de tests, mais c'est assez dépriment à debugger; on a pas le source code du firmware, qui a l'air plutôt buggy.

L'extension SD semble fonctionner mais j'ai très peu testé.

Il manque encore du continuous playback?

Faudrait essayer de reverse-engineer le code...
EDIT: wow, 3 files pour plus de 11MB de bin!

http://www.jetaudio.com/products/cowon/d2plus/