unsharpTech

Ok so I started out using rsync with the options ‘-a –progress –delete’ and I thought that was doin’ the job just fine. But recently I migrated our old 600mhz Dell Optiplex GX110 to a Sans Digital MobileNAS MN2L dual drive RAID NAS and the rsyncs weren’t going as planned.

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Something feels a little off, but it’s not bad.

macfox II - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3174

macfox II Graphite - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3430

Yet another clean little tweak. [Read the rest]

I came across this cool registry setting a while ago and had to look it up again. [Read the rest]

If you lose any of your user passwords - including root you can change your password booting into single user mode. What you aren’t likely to find off the bat is the proper instructions to do it. They are out there, but chances are you will have to dig a little after some frustration. The main differece between all those super simple solutions and the one mentioned here is that you need to remount the OS drive in order to properly write your changes. This method has worked with the last three major releases of Ubuntu including Feisty. So, here’s the procedure…

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I was trying to play some .avi files tonight with various players using the Xine engine, including Totem and xine-ui. I was getting an error like “there is no demuxer plugin available to handle … .avi” And even Amarok (which also uses xine) was complaining about playing .mp3s.

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