Video and Volume woes in Ubuntu : GMplayer and VLC

I finally moved my home laptop (an Acer Aspire) to Ubuntu 9.10. Everything ran smoothly and I was impressed at the ease of setup. This distro definitely has come a long way since I first tried it. However I did have one major issue. After upgrading to all the latest updates and attempting to play … Continue reading Video and Volume woes in Ubuntu : GMplayer and VLC

fsck to the rescue…

While transferring files to my new hardisk on my SheevaPlug, I made a couple of mistakes which cut off a file in mid-transfer. This of course resulted in the file being corrupted: As you can see above, there's something obviously wrong with the file "SNWLback2.zip". Removing, moving or copying it made no difference, I just … Continue reading fsck to the rescue…