Default video player in Linux

06Jan08

Just a quick memo on how to make mplayer the default videoplayer in Linux:
xdg-mime default mplayer.desktop application/vnd.rn-realmedia application/x-extension-mp4 application/x-flash-video application/x-matroska application/x-quicktime-media-link application/x-quicktimeplayer text/google-video-pointer text/x-google-video-pointer video/3gpp video/dv video/fli video/flv video/mp4 video/mp4v-es video/mpeg video/msvideo video/quicktime video/vivo video/vnd.divx video/vnd.rn-realvideo video/vnd.vivo video/x-anim video/x-avi video/x-flc video/x-fli video/x-flic video/x-m4v video/x-matroska video/x-mpeg video/x-ms-asf video/x-msvideo video/x-ms-wm video/x-ms-wmv video/x-ms-wmx video/x-ms-wvx video/x-nsv video/x-ogm+ogg video/x-theora+ogg
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Tags: FreeDesktop, Linux, MimeType, MPlayer

Windows are for breaking

05Jan08

Automated breakage
Yesterday I wanted to boot into my Windows XP Professional partition to see if Perfect World ran better in Windows than in Wine, but what was this? Windows refused to boot.
Now, this has happened to me before, and I have read lots and lots of post online about the dreaded Mup.sys problem, but this [...]

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Tags: Install, mup.sys, ubuntu, Windows XP