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Yonge and Drewry #4

Matthieu — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:24:34 +0000

Yonge and Drewry #3

Matthieu — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:56:40 +0000

Yonge and Drewry #2

Matthieu — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:55:21 +0000

Yonge and Drewry. #1

Matthieu — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:49:56 +0000

Matthieu — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:56:50 +0000

Why Facebook is weird #1:

I can look at pictures of friends I haven’t seen in years and realize that they’ve become quite attractive.

At the risk of looking like a complete idiot

Matthieu — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:34:33 +0000

Here’s a bit of DOS batch-file scripting.

@ECHO OFF
ECHO. FOR loop test
for /L %%N in (0,1,12) do call :test %%N
goto End
 
:test
echo %1
 
goto :eof
:End
Echo.Reached End
pause

AppleWorks on Snow Leopard

Matthieu — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:12:09 +0000

I am happy to report that AppleWorks 6 for Mac OS X runs perfectly on Snow Leopard using Rosetta.

Just be sure to get the latest update from http://support.apple.com/downloads/AppleWorks_6_2_9_for_Mac

Also, if you have problems running the update (hang/freeze), try running it with all network connections disconnected.

DVD playback in XBMC on Ubuntu

Matthieu — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:15:45 +0000

To get DVD playback to work properly in XBMC on Ubuntu, disable nautilus’ automount feature

-> gconf-editor
apps->nautilus->preferences
Uncheck “media-automount”

http://www.pubbs.net/201002/opensuse/27474-opensuse-disable-automount-for-dvd-drive.html

Making a SOCKS proxy transparent

Matthieu — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:43:59 +0000

Finally, after about an hour of googling, I found a program that allows a SOCKS proxy to be made transparent. Installed on a router/gateway, this can force all LAN users’ traffic through the proxy.

http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/

via http://wiki.przemoc.net/tips/linux#making_socks_proxy_transparent

HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file – Ubuntu Forums

Matthieu — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:35:39 +0000

#!/bin/bash
 
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
  echo "Syntax: $0 debfile"
  exit 1
fi
 
DEBFILE="$1"
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/deb.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
OUTPUT=`basename "$DEBFILE" .deb`.modfied.deb
 
if [[ -e "$OUTPUT" ]]; then
  echo "$OUTPUT exists."
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi
 
dpkg-deb -x "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"
dpkg-deb --control "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN
 
if [[ ! -e "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control ]]; then
  echo DEBIAN/control not found.
 
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi
 
CONTROL="$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control
 
MOD=`stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"`
vi "$CONTROL"
 
if [[ "$MOD" == `stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"` ]]; then
  echo Not modfied.
else
  echo Building new deb...
  dpkg -b "$TMPDIR" "$OUTPUT"
fi
 
rm -r "$TMPDIR"

via HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file – Ubuntu Forums.