hints & tricks in no particular order
25/11
Note that you will need flac and lame for this to work. Run the following line in the directory where the flac files are: for file in *.flac; do flac -cd “$file” | lame -h – “${file%.flac}.mp3″; done You can also make lame create the mp3 files somewhere else. Take the following line: for file in *.flac; do flac -cd […]
24/11
24/11
I quite broke Android on the Mele today, and the easiest way to fix it (without opening it or reinstalling it entirely) is to boot an alternative linux distro. I tried: Linaro 12.07 by CNX-Soft Image name linaro-precise-alip-20120724-274 Needs 4 GB SD Card Display is laggy, but access to internal file system, fine for […]
24/11
The Mele is really a nice mini computer but Android is sometimes a bit weird; when connecting a hard drive through the embedded sata port, media players are reluctant to scan it, making it difficult to launch movies or music from it. I tweaked Android a bit so that it thinks that main storage is the hard drive. This […]
17/11
I recently installed a PC running Ubuntu in an encrypted drive. The next step was to use a VPN provider to anonymize it a bit. I first used the Network Manager to configure and run the VPN, but I was a bit confused by the GUI, and wanted to customize the VPN a bit more. Moreover Network Manager stores its settings […]
17/11
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 12.10 from scratch on a PC with a nvidia GeForce 9300 embedded. The only particular thing is that it was connected to the monitor through VGA. Unfortunately, the display was stuck at 1366x768 instead of the native resolution 1680x1050 no matter if I used the nouveau or the nvidia drivers. […]
11/11
24/10
As said in my previous post, Android 4 on MID8127 is not ready for prime time. But going back to Android 2.3 wasn't as easy as I expected: Install RecoveryTool.apk package Copy update.zip (Clockwork Mod) to your "internal SD card" (might be /sdcard/tflash) Open Recovery Tool app, and then choose update.zip, it will […]
20/10
I got a MpMan 827 Android tablet for cheap (60 €) but it was Android 2.3 Gingerbread only. MpMan 827 is just another name for the Coby Kyros 8127, or MID8127, and Coby Germany released Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for this one. Granted you cheat a bit with the serial number (took 101110010XXX with 3 last digits being the […]
03/09
Tried to use Nero to convert and burn an audio CD. It would always giving me a "incorrect parameter" error and refuse to do anything. It turned out I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 recently and didn't use Nero ever since... Fortunately I could a find an answer to this problem: sudo mkdir /usr/lib64 sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nero […]
30/07
30/06
I noticed my system was using IDE (and not AHCI) and it is highly recommended to use AHCI for SSD drives. Ubuntu won't complain if mode is switched from one to the other. However, Windows 7 is a bit more picky as the AHCI driver is disabled by default (to gain a few seconds at startup) and thus won't boot in AHCI mode. […]
24/06
Bought one, was with firmware 1.5 / Android 2.3 -- Works good, doesn't need much power. Current main issue: no sound over HDMI for .mkv files (with .ac3 or .dts tracks it seems) Will try to update to Android 4.0 -- this is not an official build (yet) but there should be soon an official Android 4 for Mele: wget […]
21/04
Already got the issue in the past on my Asus P6T Deluxe V2, solved it and forgot about it. But a recent Clear CMOS operation (to retrieve full USB 2.0 ports that were somewhat downgraded to 1.1, weird issue) brought it to light again. After checking this post High Pitched Noise Coming From Vertex 2 60GB SSD, it became […]
12/11
11/09
I want to be able to start XBMC Live remotely. XBMC being based on Ubuntu, it was not so hard to achieve, once I understood I should follow the Ubuntu tutorial rather than the XBMC one. You may need to install the ethtool package sudo apt-get install ethtool You can then try to enable WOL manually sudo ethtool -s eth0 […]
11/09
21/07
By default, a domain controller use its BIOS clock as a reference, making all computers on the domain synchronizing on this not so reliable time service. To change that, you can use the Microsoft Fix It 50395 patch or edit the registry directly. Using Fix It, you just need to give it a reliable NTP server. In the […]
13/07
I dislike MP3 but less than I dislike WMA :-) Anyway, my car CD player wouldn't want to play WMA. So: 1. Install Medibuntu repository in 1 line sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get -q update && […]
16/05
I had to fix a computer with Vista Family Premium 32 bits installed where browsing the internet was nearly impossible. Any loading of a web page would take minutes, because of a very slow DNS resolution. After investigating for a while, I found out that buggy IPv6 implementation in Vista was the culprit. Hundreds of […]