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How to Play Rmvb Files In Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

If you experienced this topic earlier, you know that it’s tough to solve. Playing Real video format files (e.g. rmvb files) is still a problem in Ubuntu 8.04, but don’t worry, it’s now much easier than before.

So, here we go:

1. Follow the official instruction to install all the restricted formats:

   sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

2. Install MPlayer:

   sudo apt-get install mplayer

3. Download MPlayer binary codecs package from here.
4. Install MPlayer binary codecs package: (Note: the package name may differ from yours.)

   tar xjvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
   sudo mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
   sudo cp essential-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs

At this point, you should be able to play rmvb files now. In case you still can’t, install libstdc++5 as follow:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Bonus: I highly recommend you to give SMPlayer a try. You can get SMPlayer by:

sudo apt-get install smplayer

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Huge Mistake

Everybody is recommending everybody to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1, and I did, but I made a huge mistake during the process:

I deleted the uploads directory! All my blog images were located there and the even worse situation was that I didn’t have any backup of those images…

Anyways, if you cannot see those pictures in my previous posts, I would say that I am really sorry about that. I’ll be very careful next time and I hope such accident won’t happen again.

p.s. Cron seems interesting, I’m going to do some researches and ask it to backup my files periodically.

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Hardy Heron

This post is composed under Ubuntu 8.04 — Hardy Heron.

I installed Hardy in my Lenovo Y410 half an hour ago. Most hardware (monitor, video card, wireless card, wireless mouse, webcam, etc.) work out of box, but like 7.10, the sound card still requires some efforts to make it work. In software, Gimp is upgraded to 2.4.5, OpenOffice.org now is in version 2.4 and Firefox 3 beta 5 is installed as default.

A lot of improvements, but pretty much no excitements for me (Firefox 3 can be counted as a “Wow”, but I’m using it at work everyday, so…). I’m kind of disappointed tonight. However, I heard that Hardy has a feature which lets user to install this Linux distro on top of Windows; this could be interesting, but I haven’t gotten chance to try it yet.

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Demonoid.com Is Back!

Yes, it’s BACK! We’d waited for so long.

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ABCDEFG & GFEDCBA

via: jandan.net

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There is a bug, Gnome…

You might also hear about that Flickr added a feature for uploading videos.

Cool, so I attempted to try it out, but…

When I clicked the “Choose photos and videos” link in the upload page, I got a very long and very ugly popup window in Gnome! See below:

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You can tell even just from this thumbnail that this window is abnormally long; and YES, my screen (19”, 1440×900) can’t display it as a whole because its width is 1556 pixels. Even worse, I can’t resize the window!

We can see the problem here: The file-type bar is too long. It’s trying to show all the file types that are available. It is fine in most of the time, but it obviously is a flaw. I call it a BUG, you might want to call it an UX (User Experience) problem, either way…

Well, how’s Windows? Let’s take a look:

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Much better! The window size is normal, my laptop (14.1”, 1280×800) can handle it with no problems. When you move your mouse pointer over the file-type bar, it will then give you the full list through help text.

Personally, I use Linux with Gnome at home and I am happy 99% of the time. I saw the huge improvements that desktop Linux has been made so far; however, I can’t deny that there still is a long way to go for this badass ;)

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Checkbox! For what?

Update: tombyong informed me that those checkboxes were gone about 2.5 hours after this post. Thanks, tombyong!

When I logged in my iGoogle today, I immediately spotted a change in the Gmail gadget: There is a checkbox sitting beside each Email title!

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When I saw these checkboxes, I thought the Gmail gadget would finally add “Delete” and/or “Report Spam” features, so that I could do “More Actions” right within my iGoogle. But After searching and searching around the gadget, I couldn’t find any new feature out there…

So, what are these checkboxes for? Is it a mistake or is anything new undergoing there?

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Hey DistroWatch, it’s a joke, right?

After I finished reading the latest DistroWatch Weekly and hit the back button, I saw a pretty scary distro rank ladder:

I was scared so I even actually checked top three’s homepages and the result was even more scaring: they DO exist!

What the heck is going on here? Where is Ubuntu? Where is Debian? I couldn’t believe my eyes! I was totally confused.

So I decided to blog this. But after I’d taken the screenshots, I suddenly realized: Oh, today is APRIL 1st!

LOL~ Nice trick, DistroWatch!

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Theme Changed

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5, I finally threw away my modified default theme and geared my blog with Fauna theme.

Fauna is a neat, simplistic and widgets ready theme for WordPress 2.3+ (it works fine in 2.5); but it’s not “simple”. Fauna provides a rich set of features for users to use. For example, you can write your about text, change the header image, change the position of sidebar in its options page and you can even modify theme’s scale mode.

Besides, Fauna has two special features that I love the most: “Sticky-note” and “Sidenotes”. With these two features enabled, my blog is becoming more useful and flexible. One example is that now I can use the sidenotes as my micro-blog platform instead of twitter.com.

Here, I just named very few features that Fauna has. If you’re interested at this theme, you can find Fauna at its homepage. Have fun!

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WordPress 2.5 Released

Finally, this long waited version has been released! I’ll update this blog to the latest version after this post.

Cheers!

You can download WordPress 2.5 here: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.5.zip