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Jannich Brendle on February 17th, 2010

Okay, this is a very short blogpost that will show you how to download videos from YouTube, using a command line tool found on debian and ubuntu. The program I’m talking about is youtube-dl and to install it, you should open a terminal window and type in the following: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl When youtube-dl [...]

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Jannich Brendle on January 13th, 2010

This guide will explain to you how to run Torchlight in wine under Ubuntu 9.10. First, you must start a terminal. Next, install wine and do a little customization: sudo apt-get install wine wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks vcrun2008 directx9 wine /the/path/to/the/torchlight_installer.exe Now run winecfg, and click on Graphics->Emulate a virtual desktop to let wine emulate [...]

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Jannich Brendle on December 3rd, 2009

This is a small shellscript I wrote, to ease starting irssi on my VPS: #!/bin/sh if screen -ls | grep -q IRC ; then msn_pid=$(screen -ls | grep IRC | cut -f1 -d. | sed ‘s/\t//’) screen -r -d $msn_pid.IRC else screen -S IRC irssi fi If irssi is already running in screen, it resumes [...]

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