Saturday, October 16, 2010

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/

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

realmyst on windows 7

and probably the original version (myst).

run realmystsetup.exe and choose the driver without T&L.

That fixed my problems of broken videos.

riven on windows 7

install qt lite 4.0.0

il faut peut-etre restreindre à 1 core à partir du task manager

ou

1. Under Libraries Right click Riven
2. Select Properties
3. Set Launch options
4. Type /affinity 1 (Affinity 1 is core 0 Affinity 2 is core 1 You can choose which ever one you want)
5. Select Ok

Thursday, July 15, 2010

pulseaudio switch default sound card

$ pacmd
>> list-sinks
>> set-default-sink 1

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Change default port apache2 ubuntu

in /etc/apache2/ports.conf, change 80 in these lines:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80


also, in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:
<virtualhost *:80>