User had copied or created a file / folder on a mapped drive and that file / folder now cannot be renamed / deleted / accessed by anyone. Not even administrators, upon the server.
An overnight Backup Exec backup had failed to access this folder also. I therefore needed this fixed.
Microsoft's offered solutions ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081 ) did not help.
Viewing 'Open Files' in Computer Management application showed a user still had the parent and this directory open. I checked with the user and they had not so, I simply forced a 'Close Open File' in Computer management and then I was able to successfully delete the folder.
Friday, 18 June 2010
Saturday, 27 March 2010
TIP: Upgrading RAM in VMware Player
You can either change the memsize setting within the *.vmx file or, change it whilst running VMWare.
Edit file.
Look for a *.vmx file in the directory that your VM is stored in and open it in your favourite text editor.
Look for a line that looks like this: memsize = “64″. Change the number to equal the amount of RAM that you want in your VM. Typically half of your full (linux) memory should be sufficient. For example, I have upgraded my RAM to 2GB and so I increase memsize to 1024Mb (memsize = “1024″).
Start the VM and enjoy your new RAM
Alternatively.
An alternative method of changing the memsize is to start VMWare Player and click on the 'VMWare Player" menu then select, "Troubleshoot". SElect, "Change memory allocation". There it graphically shows your memory setting, the recommended setting and finally, the maximum recommended setting.
Edit file.
Look for a *.vmx file in the directory that your VM is stored in and open it in your favourite text editor.
Look for a line that looks like this: memsize = “64″. Change the number to equal the amount of RAM that you want in your VM. Typically half of your full (linux) memory should be sufficient. For example, I have upgraded my RAM to 2GB and so I increase memsize to 1024Mb (memsize = “1024″).
Start the VM and enjoy your new RAM
Alternatively.
An alternative method of changing the memsize is to start VMWare Player and click on the 'VMWare Player" menu then select, "Troubleshoot". SElect, "Change memory allocation". There it graphically shows your memory setting, the recommended setting and finally, the maximum recommended setting.
Sunday, 7 March 2010
TIP: What version of KDE am I running?
GUI:
Click on the Kicker icon and go to Applications -> Help. Then selcct the 'Help' drop-down menu and click, 'About KDE'.
Alternatively from the command prompt:
KDE3 runtime:
Code:
KDE4 runtime:
Code:
Click on the Kicker icon and go to Applications -> Help. Then selcct the 'Help' drop-down menu and click, 'About KDE'.
Alternatively from the command prompt:
KDE3 runtime:
Code:
kde-config --version
KDE4 runtime:
Code:
kde4-config --version
Saturday, 27 February 2010
TIP: Grabbing video content from webpage
Two words: browser cache
You don't need any utility software to grab webpage video content and what software is on offer is probably infected! Avoid sites offering 'Free Youtube Downloader' or whatever.
There are Firefox add-ons to grab video content but I haven't tried any of these yet. Hmm, the add-ons would be useful for M$ users though!
When you view video on your linux system with Firefox ([K]ubuntu at least) the video clip is cached into a temporary directory. Wait until the video clip has fully loaded and you will find the file in your user's ~/tmp/ ( or /tmp/) directory. Simply copy it to somewhere else before you close the webpage. Because, as soon as you close or navigate away from that webpage, the cached file is deleted. So far I have seen filenames starting with 'Flash' but, just look for a recently created file.
On my Kubuntu 9.10, I play back the content quite happily using Xine.
Now, most YouTube stuff plays OK but some have garbled / distorted audio. Mainly U.S. content. I seem to have a codec missing. I'll post here if I fix this.
* UPDATE *
Hmm,
I seem to have forgotten that I had previously installed a firefox add-on called '1-Click YouTube Video Downloader'. Quite easy to use, it adds some extra links in the page, just under the Video window.
It allows you to download YouTube Videos in FLV and MP4 (both High Definition and iPod High-Quality) in a single click.
Categories: Linux, OS
Tags: Kubuntu, Linux, video, grab, grabbing
You don't need any utility software to grab webpage video content and what software is on offer is probably infected! Avoid sites offering 'Free Youtube Downloader' or whatever.
There are Firefox add-ons to grab video content but I haven't tried any of these yet. Hmm, the add-ons would be useful for M$ users though!
When you view video on your linux system with Firefox ([K]ubuntu at least) the video clip is cached into a temporary directory. Wait until the video clip has fully loaded and you will find the file in your user's ~/tmp/ ( or /tmp/) directory. Simply copy it to somewhere else before you close the webpage. Because, as soon as you close or navigate away from that webpage, the cached file is deleted. So far I have seen filenames starting with 'Flash' but, just look for a recently created file.
On my Kubuntu 9.10, I play back the content quite happily using Xine.
Now, most YouTube stuff plays OK but some have garbled / distorted audio. Mainly U.S. content. I seem to have a codec missing. I'll post here if I fix this.
* UPDATE *
Hmm,
I seem to have forgotten that I had previously installed a firefox add-on called '1-Click YouTube Video Downloader'. Quite easy to use, it adds some extra links in the page, just under the Video window.
It allows you to download YouTube Videos in FLV and MP4 (both High Definition and iPod High-Quality) in a single click.
Categories: Linux, OS
Tags: Kubuntu, Linux, video, grab, grabbing
Saturday, 13 February 2010
TIP: Taskbar crashed? What to do!?
Until I find a more elegant solution...
I had clicked upon the clock on my taskbar, to bring up the calendar. I wanted to look up what day a particular date fell. I had forgot about this bug, the task bar crashed and then shortly disappeared.
Not knowing how to get it back other than, ALT-F2 to bring up the "Run" command bar. I then type "logout", saving any unsaved documents.
Log back in and the task bar is restored and any previously opened application come back up to.
I hope this helps someone. Yes, an annoying bug but at least it is not like M$ (MS Windows) where you would have to do a hard reset!
* UPDATE *
I have been experimenting! I am not sure if this gives a stable solution yet but, instead of logging out, when I pressed ALT-F2, I then typed "plasma". After about ten seconds, the task bar came back. This is on Jaunty (Kubuntu 9.04)
Just an observation.
I had clicked upon the clock on my taskbar, to bring up the calendar. I wanted to look up what day a particular date fell. I had forgot about this bug, the task bar crashed and then shortly disappeared.
Not knowing how to get it back other than, ALT-F2 to bring up the "Run" command bar. I then type "logout", saving any unsaved documents.
Log back in and the task bar is restored and any previously opened application come back up to.
I hope this helps someone. Yes, an annoying bug but at least it is not like M$ (MS Windows) where you would have to do a hard reset!
* UPDATE *
I have been experimenting! I am not sure if this gives a stable solution yet but, instead of logging out, when I pressed ALT-F2, I then typed "plasma". After about ten seconds, the task bar came back. This is on Jaunty (Kubuntu 9.04)
Just an observation.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Intrepid/Jaunty: K3B fails to rip to MP3
My K3B worked fine until I upgraded to Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) and then I got: "Command failed: lame -h *snip*", "Error while encoding track 1".
Trawling the web I ended up at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdemultimedia/+bug/267399 and thanks to Ilja Pavkovic and Julos I got it going again.
To help clarify:
1. create dir ~/bin
Code:
2. create a script ~/bin/lame.sh with
Code:
Then enjoy using K3B again!
Trawling the web I ended up at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdemultimedia/+bug/267399 and thanks to Ilja Pavkovic and Julos I got it going again.
To help clarify:
1. create dir ~/bin
Code:
mkdir ~/bin
2. create a script ~/bin/lame.sh with
Code:
#!/bin/sh
usr/bin/lame --big-endian -x "$@"
chmod +x ~/bin/lame
3. Then in K3B, Settings->Configure K3b...->Plugins, under AudioEncoder, Configure the "K3b External Audio Encode" entry. Click on Mp3 (Lame) and click on the Edit button. Tick the two bottom options for "Swap Byte Order" and "Write Wave Header".
usr/bin/lame --big-endian -x "$@"
chmod +x ~/bin/lame
3. Then in K3B, Settings->Configure K3b...->Plugins, under AudioEncoder, Configure the "K3b External Audio Encode" entry. Click on Mp3 (Lame) and click on the Edit button. Tick the two bottom options for "Swap Byte Order" and "Write Wave Header".
Then enjoy using K3B again!
Saturday, 30 January 2010
TIP: Viewing Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf)
I have an Olympus e-500 and haven't decided if I prefer RAW over TIFF yet but just wanted to say that you can view Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf) if you have dcraw package installed.
Install it via Synaptic Package Manager.
GIMP - Install the gimp-dcraw plugin via Synaptic Package Manager allows you to edit the image in GIMP.
RAW gives the same quality as TIFF but, in a smaller file size. The lack of viewers and editor for RAW needs considering.
Install it via Synaptic Package Manager.
GIMP - Install the gimp-dcraw plugin via Synaptic Package Manager allows you to edit the image in GIMP.
RAW gives the same quality as TIFF but, in a smaller file size. The lack of viewers and editor for RAW needs considering.
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