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OnLive + Wine = Windows Gaming on Linux

Posted 04-04-2012 at 11:09 PM by stretchedthin

I think I posted this once on LQ in response to a question. Still desearves to be part of the blog though.

Onlive is gaming in the cloud. Designed for Windows and Mac but unintentionally, it is also a leap forward for Linux (and Mac) users who want easy access to the world of Windows PC games. Hundred's of games are available, but Wine need only run the OnLive client in order to play them all. Also worth mentioning is the upcoming client for Android tablets. Could mean a full...

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How to use the 'find' utility from the command line on Linux

Posted 04-04-2012 at 11:05 PM by stretchedthin

If you saw the last post, you already know I'm sharing some of the better older posts I've put on Youtube. These are still getting hits today.

So here is number two.

Find is an incredibly powerful command line utility for finding files and folders and much more. Just looking at the man pages for find can be intimidating, but hopefully, this tutorial will give you the introduction you need to get the most out of find.

How to use the 'find' utility from the command line on Linux

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Recovering lost data with Photorec

Posted 04-04-2012 at 11:01 PM by stretchedthin

Time for some oldies but goodies. I put this tutorial up, January of 2010. It still does well today on Youtube, so though I'd share it with LQ readers. So enjoy...

Photorec is part of Testdisk and versions are available for both Linux and Windows. It is an incredible powerful tool for recovering lost files when you accidentally format over a partition or an entire drive. This tutorial will walk through the process of using Photorec to recover data from a mistakenly formatted drive....

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Yoono All your social networking in one place.

Posted 04-04-2012 at 03:17 PM by stretchedthin

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn. I never wanted it but now Social networking sites are a part of my everyday computing. Yoono is something I've found that helps tame the beast, and puts everything under one roof. Works great under Linux, but note, it's free but not Opensource. The business model is advertising based, so expect to see some ads within the interface.

Yoono All your social networking in one place.

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Crontab not opening the file to edit

Posted 04-04-2012 at 01:27 PM by LinuxShare

I had previously ran into an issue where the crontab did not open the file to edit due an issue with the default editor path. This can be checked by just trying to open the vi editor from the prompt. If you run into issues in opening a file using 'vi', then crontab -e will not work.

Here is a different case, where 'crontab -e' throws a number back to the screen and does nothing. Example:

crontab -e
442

This number is differing for each user...

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