visual basic 6 revisited – linux – wine
August 5th, 2010
Earlier this year, I had written an article on running Visual Basic 6 on linux under wine, this is an update for it, the prior one is depreciated Getting Visual Basic 6 to work on linux is pretty easy, not much trouble, all the basic things work, as of what I’ve tested. Here’s how you [...]
embedded gentoo [uclibc] | nothing beats this
July 27th, 2010
A few uclibc embedded gentoo facts: the compilation of the box takes around 15 minutes at boot up, takes less than 3 megabytes of RAM disk space: 17 megabytes boots in under 8 seconds on a pentium3 link to stage3 tarballs archive # this is my make.conf, it should be the same in the stage3, [...]
noCD? |boot from usb| Sabayon Linux
July 1st, 2010
I had a pen-drive lying around, and so I decided to try out a new distribution of linux, Sabayon Linux. Why Sabayon? On a base install, everything is there and just works perfectly For a newbie, the hard part is often getting playback codecs, well, Sabayon has them pre-installed Sabayon has focused on the base [...]
Restore Broken Package DB on Sabayon
June 27th, 2010
System database not found or corrupted, running in safe mode using temporary, empty repository phoenix jude # equo rescue resurrect >> ####### ATTENTION: The installed package database will be resurrected, this will take a LOT of time. >> ####### ATTENTION: Please use this function ONLY if you are using an Entropy-aware distribution. Can I continue [...]
Easily Sort Your Music Library
October 15th, 2009
Here is a very simple script to sort your whole music library according to their artists, #!/bin/bash # sortMusic v0.4 # make sure this script in in the music directory and you execute this script from there # know issue: will display many errors, but it does it fine, those errors are not to be [...]