Eddie's Tech Notes

Typical find . bash command interprets a file with whitespace in name into multiple files. To avoid this problem, use the following construct,   find . - iname "foo*" | while read f do echo ${f} done   Reference     To eliminate leading ./ in the listed file names, change the code above to the following. find . - iname "foo*" | while read f do echo ${f#./} done Reference

1) Open the Terminal and type the following command       sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02proxy Note : 01proxy file is not present earlier. 2) Type the following line(in red) in the file:      Acquire::http::Proxy “http://yourusername:yourpassword@yourproxy:yourport″;      Acquire::http::Proxy "http://foss:3189";     3) Save the file and your problem is solved. Reference

Check where the CD is located in the Linux system > cdrdao scanbus Suppose you get the following which says it is at /dev/sr0 Cdrdao version 1.2.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller /dev/sr0 : Slimtype, DVDRW SOSW-833S , VRS3 Make sure that location is unmounted. > umount /dev/sr0 Do the following command to rip the dvd to iso. > cat /dev/sr0 > /home/tylau0/disc.iso   

Click on "Config" in the PlayOnLinux main screen. Then select the Wine tab on the right window, and select "Registry Editor". Under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform] Insert: "KeyManagementServiceName REG_SZ " [[Licence server]] "KeyManagementServicePort REG_SZ " [[ Port of the licence server]] Start MS Office (i.e. Word). Then the following entry will be automatically created: [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform] Insert: "VLRenewalSchedule REG_BINARY " [[Any value]] Close MS Office completely and restart it. Reference

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WinFF - play .trp media files   AcetoneISO - dump CD/DVD Hugin - stitch photos

In case you encounter the following issue when running OpenGL program in a virtual machine OpenGL Warning: XGetVisualInfo returned 0 visuals for 0x180fb10 OpenGL Warning: Retry with 0x8002 returned 0 visuals Segmentation fault (core dumped) You may set the LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT environment variable to 1 before running my GLUT programs, as follows. export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Reference