Comments for The Node

Comment on How to Disable the Screensaver on Amazon Kindle by Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:31:56 +0000

Yes, that’s right.

For some mysterious reason they linked the screensaver and sleep mode and they can’t be turned on and off separately without a hack. If you want to save power when not using the device and screen saver is disabled, you will have to turn the power completely off by holding the slider for 7 seconds. It will take more time and power to turn back on than waking from sleep/screensaver, but it will be completely off for the duration.

I get around this by keeping my screensaver and my wireless off. I only turn my wireless on when I need to download and then turn it off again. I don’t have any power consumption issues and I come back to a nice page of text instead of a picture of some ugly stranger.

Comment on PodGrab – A Command Line RSS Podcast Downloader Written In Python by jon

jon — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:40 +0000

Thank you very much. There is also a fork on GitHub somewhere. I don’t know what they’ve added since I released the code. This version has all the functionality I need so I let somebody else maintain it :D

Comment on Convert x264 Formatted Video to xvid With ffmpeg on Ubuntu by jon

jon — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:39:45 +0000

Sounds like you don’t have the xvid libraries installed.

Comment on Convert x264 Formatted Video to xvid With ffmpeg on Ubuntu by anders

anders — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:11:14 +0000

Just what I was looking for… short+precise… but doesn’t work :) says

Unknown encoder ‘libxvid’

Comment on PodGrab – A Command Line RSS Podcast Downloader Written In Python by Victor

Victor — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:11:17 +0000

Just wanted to drop a line thanking you for this awesome tool. PodGrab is the embodiment of the UNIX philosophy “Do one thing and do it well”.

Comment on Windows 7 Recognising USB Drive But No Drive Showing? Fix That Sucker! by Lennon

Lennon — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:43:17 +0000

Worked like a chum

Comment on Windows 7 Recognising USB Drive But No Drive Showing? Fix That Sucker! by Ian

Ian — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:58:56 +0000

I was trying to avoid buying a new drive and couldn’t find this solution anywhere!!! You really saved me a lot of time and money. Thank you.

Comment on How To Backup Your Linux Machine With Mondo Rescue by André Verwijs

André Verwijs — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:56:06 +0000

doesn’t work anymore, useless..!! try “Clonezilla”…

Comment on How To Fix Windows Forgetting Your Samba Login Credentials by Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:43:25 +0000

Thanks a lot!

Comment on Windows 7 Recognising USB Drive But No Drive Showing? Fix That Sucker! by Sven

Sven — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:26:23 +0000

Problem not solved :( After selecting the disk with DISKPART and doing the clean command, I receive this error (translated):
An error in DiskPart: The system can not find the specified file. Please consult the event log system for more information.

The USB drive is recognized by device manager and works correctly on other computers.