Not to forget to do:
cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
rm d:
ln -s /media/cdrom d:
Later versions of wine, like the one shipped in Dapper Drake (0.9.9) ignore settings in ~/.wine/config
You have to use the “winecfg” program to set windows version to NT 4.0 (thanks to Phil B. July 2006)
Change wine to Windows NT 4.0 version
Thanks to mtron from ubuntu forums:
#! /bin/sh
# wma to mp3 script by mtron
zenity --info \
--text="this script converts all wma files in the current folder
to mp3s and puts them in the folder output
all lame command line options can be set in the next step.
usage:
lame -m s: for stereo mp3 output
lame -m s V 3-4-5: for stereo mp3 output with VBR"
# Dialog box to choose output quality
FORMAT=`zenity --list --title="Choose mp3 output quality" --radiolist --column="Check" --column="Quality (editable)" --editable "" "lame -m s" "" "lame -m s -V 3" "" "lame -m s -V " "" "lame -m s -V 5"`
if [ $FORMAT -eq ""]; then
zenity --error --text="mp3 output quality not defined or no wma file found
usage:
lame -m s: for stereo mp3 output
lame -m s V 3-4-5: for stereo mp3 output with VBR
type: lame --longhelp
for all command line options "
exit 1
fi
mkdir -p output
cp *.wma output
cd output
# How many files to make the progress bar
PROGRESS=0
NUMBER_OF_FILES=`find -iname "*.wma"`
let "INCREMENT=100/$NUMBER_OF_FILES"
#remove spaces
(for i in *.wma; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done
#remove uppercase
for i in *.[Ww][Mm][Aa]; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done
#Rip with Mplayer / encode with LAME
for i in *.wma ; do
echo "$PROGRESS";
echo "# Re-Coding $i";
mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm:waveheader $i && $FORMAT audiodump.wav -o $i;
let "PROGRESS+=$INCREMENT"
done
#convert file names
for i in *.wma; do mv "$i" "`basename "$i" .wma`.mp3";
done
rm audiodump.wav
let "PROGRESS+=$INCREMENT"
) | zenity --progress --title "$Recoding...encoding..." --percentage=0
I’ve created a large file in gimp (compilation of several well logs if anyone is interested) which I wanted to print out on several sheets of A3 size. To do this I saved the file in ps format and used a little command line tool:
poster -v -mA3 -p4×1A3 infile.ps > outfile.ps
man poster gives detailed overview of the command.
As a result outfile.ps contains 4 pages of A3 size with peaces of long image in it – ready to print and glue or to be reopened in gimp.
I have a “simulation server” with same Hardy 64bit LTS as my laptop running WinXP 64bit under vmware.. After a while trying to bit XP would cause enormous I/O activity on harddisk effectively bringing the whole system almost to a complete stop.
Thanks to cyberred on http://communities.vmware.com/thread/106917 adding
mainMem.useNamedFile = “FALSE”
sched.mem.pshare.enable = “FALSE”
MemTrimRate = “0″
to Virtual machine vmx file completely solved the problem
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets
to allow changing frequency scaling
From VMWARE Knowledge Database:
If you have a Linux distribution that uses the evdev driver for keyboard input, add the following lines to the /etc/vmware/config file on the host:
xkeymap.noKeycodeMap = “TRUE”
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