Can't watch the Olympics on Linux!!!

Went to nbcolympics.com to watch my favorite events on the olympics and it wouldn't let me, so finally had to grab my laptop and see what the requirements were.

I knew I had flash properly configured on my LinuxMint pc but it required something else!!! Microsoft Silverlight!

Damn, what a fine way to muscle your way into people's computers, "wanna watch it online gotta install our fucking Silverlight".



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Songbird Folder Watch Ghost Feature!!!

Features | Songbirdnest.com

Set Music Watch Folders
Tell Songbird to watch a folder for new music and it will automatically add new tracks to your collection

Fuck songbird!!! How do you set folder watch when it is nowhere to be found in any of your options!!! And yet it is listed as one of your fucking features!!! I'm still on a quest to find a media monkey clone in linux or at least something better than shitty amarok or that rhythm box where is always declares my mapped share drive missing and has to rescan all my stuff every freakin time.

Songbird is promising indeed, but no FOLDER WATCH!!!

EDIT: Apparently I got into an old page when looking for information about songbird, anyway google "songbird folder watch" and I think that is the first one on the list and it is also from their website. http://www.songbirdnest.com/features, you guys might want to edit that page or put something like "available on final version".

I just like to say that I love the feature that you can download songs through skreemr and that is works almost flawlessly on Linux Mint. It just looks too much like iTunes, personally I think the iTunes interface sucks, if you're looking for inspiration and features please please please look at Media Monkey!

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MySQL backup script

I just basically run this script on a cron job every night.

#! /bin/bash
BACKUPDATE=$(date +%Y%m%d).sql.gz
echo "Start backup SMFSG"
mysqldump -u username -ppassword dbname | gzip -v9 > /destfolder/smfsg$BACKUPDATE

Amarok1&2 sucks!!! MediaMonkey Rocks!!!

When I get mediamonkey running perfectly in linux, that will be one more step for me to let go of microsoft. Until then I have to keep MS to use the superior MediaMonkey!

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI

Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI - Ubuntu Forums

Why linux has a hard time becoming mainstream, fucking companies like Foxonn sucking microdicks cock!!! I've glad to have never chosen any product from them, and I'd like all SG members to know, for those who use linux, never to buy from this fucking company. They are now on digg, slashdot and reddit. Hope they like the internet mob.

mysql data

I wonder if I could just copy all the data from /var/lib/mysql and move it to a different server... its midnight and I'm really sleepy, I will try to salvage everything from the main drive and reinstall on a different partition tomorrow.

Noo!!!!

The main drive that has the OS for the Site Geisha server has just died, tried to reiserfsck it and it just said that it could not recover anymore because it was a hardware problem.

Anyone got any suggestions how to recover stuff out of a reiserfs partition? It has our database and stuff on it :(