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2010-05-12, on some version of PCLinuxOS.
misadventures
All posts tagged misadventures
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JDownloader is a download helper. It helps bypass various wait screens like the Firefox SkipScreen add-on, probably breaking terms of use and all that goodness.
Unfortunately, it’s Java.
I found a reproducible bug on wordpress.com around 2010-04-11 or so, where images are not deleted when the user supposedly deletes them.
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When it comes to all the fancy software tools out there, I’m finding myself becoming more and more luddite.
I’ve learned through reading and discussion many ways on how to handle data. It’s something I’m always interested in. However, the one thing that I’ve learned – and sometimes the hard way – is that no matter how awesome your handling of your data it all falls to pieces when your tools break.
 Failrius
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So I’m doing a random, leveling an unimportant alt, and lately I’ve decided to go DPS while I run around gathering. I figured it was good practice since I had already done the raiding thing on a resto shaman. I’ve had lots of fun. But there’s one big problem. Blizzard anally raped the concept of assembling a team.
Let’s go over some obvious stuff.
So I’ve been farting around after a long break from doing much of anything on Linux. I was prompted by my new hard drive arriving.
I spent some time migrating data from five separate hard drives and a stack of DVDs. One of my next goals was to get backups working, so that I can back up from my SSD to this new drive.
I have an old backup script, but I decided that I could spend this afternoon screwing around with it to optimize it a little.
Using the wonderful mcedit which comes with Midnight Commander, I hacked away. Linux being what it is, there was a tangled horror of stuff I needed to try to remember, look up through my notes, get answers to and/or figure out.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.winehq.org/
For running Windows software on Linux.
I had some significant attempts using this to run World of Warcraft, but it was ultimately unsuccessful.
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Wine Is Not an Emulator
- Yes. Yes it is.
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Tested 2010-01-01 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta1, updated 2009-12-28.
See also Claws Mail 2010-01-01 test
The simple way to reproduce this is:
\mkdir source \cp source target
It’s a pretty simple request. I want to copy a directory. I want to copy and not create the directory. I don’t want any of the contents (cp -r), I just want the container itself, without using mkdir. I don’t want to diddle around with the contents of the directory (moving them around) and then do cp -r. I want to copy the container because I want to match the permissions. I don’t want to separately use other commands to sync permissions:
\chmod --reference=source target \chown --reference=source target
Why can’t cp do this? Oh right, it’s GNU .. so it sucks.
