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Afer moving from Ubuntu back to Windows XP (Not by choice) I found that what I missed most was the ability to quickly access the terminal, either by using yakuake or pressing F4 in any conqueror window. I tried installing the “Command Prompt Here” powertoy for Windows XP, but I’m more of a command-line cowboy […]

Now that I’m back at University for the start of a new semester I have a lot of classes that require the planning of and the development of applications. To be as successful as possible in this development it is a key requirement to have all the tools you need at your disposal and that […]

So today I started to get a strange error every time I opened a folder in Windows Explorer and Explorer would crash. Turns out there’s a problem with my DivX/XVid codec being used to display the image previews for avi files. First of all I tried removing my DivX web player and ffdshow to see […]

Since I overwrite my GRUB boot loader (long story) whilst installing windows xp I’ve had to reinstall some of my fav applications all over again.
Naturally I wanted to keep my thunderbird settings so I just copied my profile from my Ubuntu partition (~/.thunderbird/profiles/ I think) to my XP partition (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles). Big mistake.
Now […]

Trying to convert a video to watch and my blackberry and my perl script that has been working fine since the day I wrote it has decided mencoder doesn’t like the encoder mp3 and is giving me the error:
Audio LAVC, couldn't find encoder for codec mp3.
Simple solution though:
sudo apt-get install lame, lame-extras, liblame-dev
if you […]