I’ve written a tool for unrar extraction in python. Basically you can feed it with *.rar and it will do the rest for you. Additionally it can perform cleanup after a successful extraction including a working partYX.rar detection and it’s got passwordfile support. For usage use -h

For install make it executable and put it into /usr/bin or wherever you like.

Depends on:

• Unrar (non-free-version) 3.80
• Python

Download it here:

http://unrarallpy.sourceforge.net/

or (maybe outdated)

http://cli-apps.org/content/show.php/Unrarall?content=124772

release info

lscoreless lists files containing >= 50 percent continuous 0×0 (null). Nearly empty files transmission (bittorrent-client) only downloaded for checksums can be located easily this way…

It is licensed under the Gnu General Public License  (GPL).

For all usage options please use:
lscoreless -h

Please report your bugs and use this program with caution…

download

Download: lscoreless source 0.1 (external site)

Download: lscoreless amd64 deb 0.1

usefull cmds

check all files in current dir (.) and subdirs

find . -type f -exec lscoreless {} \;

same but show results with ls

find . -type f -exec lscoreless -x {} \; | xargs -0 ls -la

DELETE all found files. CAREFUL please check the results first in order to avoid data loss

find . -type f -exec lscoreless -x {} \; | xargs -0 rm

“What does this do?” It sucks in air!

• Tries to move all files out of the marked folder
• Tries to remove the (now empty) dir
• [If something cannot be done (no sufficent rights, file already exists, directory could not be emptied) it won’t (should not) do it]

Its released under the GPLv2. Use it at your own risk. There should be no dataloss (except the marked directory itself) because all used commands take care of remaining (already existing) files.

#!/bin/bash

SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

FILES=${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}

for FILE in ${FILES} ; do
    if [ -d ${FILE} ]; then
             cd "${FILE}"
             mv -n * ..
             cd ..
             rmdir "${FILE}"
    fi
done

IFS=$SAVEIFS

Have fun!

FAQ nautilus scripts (http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/faq.php)

Hint:

Transmission has two (not one) places where it stores information about its torrents.

1. ~/.transmission
2. ~/.config/.transmission

Germany 12:13 am: MTV actually plays a music video!

The speed firefox handles multiple tabs, popup-windows  and the content itself is much better under vista than in (gtk-world) linux. Kind of frustration. But there is swiftfox, an optimized version of firefox for linux (and its different architectures) and I should have found this thing much earlier!

Update

It seems as if there is no satisfying method of getting flash-sound running under a 64 bit system … :/

According to this site i just speeded up my firefox by disabling IPv6. It has a recognizeable effect, but i’m still a littlebit disappointed with the slow (gtk?) opening of new tabs and windows… A 2×2,9 ghz intel dualcore 4gb should do better…

I just updated ubuntu from hardy heron to intrepid ipex. I experienced a loss of all torrents of transmission because of its update from 1.06 to 1.34. To finish active torrents

1. Remove the current transmission (but NOT “completely”) (Synaptic)
2. Uncheck all repositories (Synaptic)
3. Download the following hardy version from http://packages.ubuntu.com
   • transmission
   • transmission-common
   • transmission-cli
   • transmission-gtk
4. Install them (they will complain about the wrong order)
5. Lock the version (Synaptic)
6. Check all previous repositories

When you completed all active downloads just unlock transmission with synaptics and update.

I found a tiny little usefull backup tool called rdiff-backup. Unfortunately it has no gui, but it just works I also tried flyback, but this tool copied everything instead of linking it (like it should do), which was pretty nasty when a high amount of files is copied.

Projectpage:

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/index.html

Nasty bug!

Already reported but i didn’t find a real solution. However reinstalling amarok seems to work…

UPDATE I

No, it didn’t work. Changed to rythmbox. Still looking for a solution.

UPDATE II

This seems to work.