Posts Tagged ‘wich’

14
Aug

Download and convert YouTube movies…

   Posted by: Vlad    in Windows

One  of the most interesting tools I found was Vixy.net Converter, a small beta application which downloads and converts YouTube videos to many formats. You just copy the videos link and paste it in the application, select which format you want to save, and that’s it. It supports divx, mov, mp4, 3gp, and mp3 only. I recommend the desktop version not the online one because most of the time I used it gave me “Server too busy…”

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5
Aug

Firefox 3 and bookmarks

   Posted by: Vlad    in Windows

Firefox is curently at version 3.0.1. I’ve always used it and I am simply in love with it. I have the same profile wich i am using since version 1, and every time I format my computer or change it, I simply copy back my profile folder and point profiles.ini to it. A few days ago I did a little “house keeping” to my bookmarks and observed that the file bookmarks.html in my profile folder was still the same. First of all I tried to figure it out by myself, but I had no success, so I googled it. I found out that since version 3 firefox doesn’t use anymore bookmarks.html but places.sqlite in the profile folder. Bookmarks.html is still used for import/export purposes.

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25
Jul

Save virtual machine on NTFS drives

   Posted by: Vlad    in Linux

I usually dual boot my PC with Windows and Linux. For the moment I still heavily use Windows so most of my information is stored on NTFS drives. My linux ext3 partition is only 10 GB wich is more than enough. But I recently installed VMware server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and obviously I was forced to save my virtual machines on one of the larger windows partitions. That was o problem for my system, because everything I did I couldn’t PowerOn the virtual machine, with the following error message: “Unable to connect to the MKS: Pipe: Read failed.” After a lot of searching I found this solution. Edit as root the main .vmx file and add this line:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

Save it and you are ready to use your virtual machine.

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