• under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn’t already exist
• inside Direct3D create the following values:
  • string: DirectDrawRenderer value: opengl
  • string: OffscreenRenderingMode value: fbo
  • string: RenderTargetLockMode value: auto
  • string: UseGLSL value: readtex
  • string: VideoMemorySize value: (video card memory size in MB)

The Boxee Box by D-Link

Vudu XL

Popcorn Hour C-200

LG BD390

PlayOn!HD

Roku

Mvix Ultio

Netgear EVA2000

Neuros Link

Another option would be to use an Home Theater PC (HTPC), more expensive but also more versatile.
http://www.linuxtech.net/features/best_linux_htpc_motherboards.html has some good tips for building your own.

$ alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1530: Cannot open /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for writing: Permission denied
$ sudo alsactl store
E: core-util.c: Home directory /home/mycurrentuser not ours.

So I deciced to change “/var/lib/alsa/asound.state” ownership temporarily to the current user and then was able to successfully save my sound settings (then switched back ownership to root). I also added “alsactl restore” to /etc/rc.local to automatically reload my sound settings when I reboot.

Start a terminal and use these commands (/dev/sda2 might need to be changed to match your configuration, you can use fdisk to figure out which partition is your main one):

sudo mkdir /media/karmic
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/karmic
sudo mount -o bind /proc /media/karmic/proc
sudo mount -o bind /dev /media/karmic/dev/
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /media/karmic/etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot /media/karmic apt-get update
sudo chroot /media/karmic apt-get upgrade
sudo chroot /media/karmic apt-get dist-upgrade

1. press alt+printscreen+r (to release the keyboard from the Xserver)

2. then hit crtl+alt+F1 (and log in)
3. sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the lines that says
   Section "Device"
Driver "nvidia"

4. to

   Section "Device"
Driver "nv"

5. Save the file and then issue the startx command or just reboot. That should get your desktop up and running, minus any hardware acceleration (e.g.: for compiz or video games).

Hope that helps and I hope the nvidia driver was opens source!

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1265224&page=3.

Note: I was updating my Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 5 machine.

1. Install pavucontrol if it’s not already installed
2. Start pavucontrol
3. Play a sound in the application where you need to change the default sound device.
4. While the sound is playing, switch back to pavucontrol and change the sound device.
5. that should be it.

I needed to set my Logitech Clearchat Wireless Headphones as the default sound device for Skype 2.1.0.47 beta in Ubuntu Karmic Alpha (pavucontrol was not installed).

My case: I have an on-board sound card that I use for everything except for Skype, where I use my Logitech ClearChat Wireless USB Headset. It is easy in Skype to select a different sound device. So I needed to set my on-board sound card as the default output for everything else.

If they both use a different kernel module you can easily make sure the right one is the default card.

Find out what module is being used for your soundcards:

cat /proc/asound/modules

On my computer this gave

0 snd_usb_audio
1 snd_intel8x0


Sound card 0 is the default one (snd_usb_audio in this case). This is the module’s name.

You can’t assign card 0 because whichever card get’s loaded first get # 0. So, you have to assign # 1 to the one you don’t want as the default card. This can be done by adding one simple line to /etc/modprobe.d/sound (create it if it doesn’t exist):

options name_of_offending_module index=1

So, in my case this would be

options snd_usb_audio index=1

Reboot and try

via HOWTO make one soundcard default.

1. Add your module to /etc/modules

   # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules
# that should be loaded at boot time, one per line.
# Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
saa7134


2. Add options saa7134 card=42 to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/options

   # Enable double-buffering so gstreamer et. al. work
options quickcam compatible=2
# Default hostap to managed mode
options hostap_pci iw_mode=2
options hostap_cs iw_mode=2
# Stop auto-association.
# LP: #264104
options ipw2200 associate=0
# XXX: Ignore HPA by default. Needs to be revisted in jaunty
options libata ignore_hpa=1
options saa7134 card=42

Now reboot and you should be all set.

• signons.sqlite
• key3.db

You can find those in your Firefox profile:

Linux

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/

Windows

1. Click the Windows Start button, and select Run….
2. Type in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click OK.

You can then copy those file to another computer in your Firefox profile to use them.


#!/bin/bash

find ./ -type f -name "*.JPG" | while read FILE
do
newname=`echo $FILE | sed s/.JPG/.jpg/`
echo $newname
mv "$FILE" "$newname"
done


Convert all characters to lowercase:


#!/bin/bash

find ./ -type f -name "*" | while read FILE
do
newname=`echo $FILE | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'`
echo $newname
mv "$FILE" "$newname"
done


Copy this formula in cell C2 of Sheet2 (and then drag it down to the cells below):
=INDEX($Sheet1.A$2:B$3001;MATCH(A2;$Sheet1.A$2:A$3001;0);2)

This formula assumes that there is a maximum of 3000 different products in Sheet1 (starting at cell A2).

Sample file:compare_four_columns.ods

The following perl scripts index *.txt in the current folder and search for “TEST”. The first one is using Perl’s KinoSearch module and the other one is using Plucene. KinoSearch is alot faster then Plucene and also gives better results.

(right click to download)

KinoSearch.pl

Plucene.pl

ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/audio -f x11grab -s 800x600 -r 15 -i :0.0 output.avi