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Bad FTP mirrors with fmirror or wget? Use lftp!

Today I’ve found that my websites were not backed up as expected. I was using fmirror (v0.8.4) to get a copy from my host provider to my backup machine. Here is the command line I was using: $ fmirror -kRS -u kevin -p pass -s ftp.website.com …
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Rugg 0.2.1 RPM package for Mandriva 2006.0

I’ve build a RPM package of Rugg for Mandriva 2006. I also added a source-rpm repository for Mandriva 2006.0 on this site. Rugg describe itself as a “Flexible file system and hard drive crash testing”. Take a look on the official project website for details: Rugg Project website …
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New Repository for Mandriva 2006

Hi all! I’ve created a RPM repository on this site to deposit third-party software I found all around the net. At that time, available packages are Wormux v0.7 and Baghira v0.7. To add the repository to your urpmi database, in a terminal, do as root: $ urpmi.addmedia …
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A/V sync problems: VLC better than Mencoder

Today I tried to transcode a bunch of videos using my favorite script. I need to do this because the videos produced with my cheap camera use Mjpeg as video codec and raw-data as audio codec. This result of incredible large files. To share my videos with friends, I transcode …
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