Posts filed under “Computing”
Fixing Clementine and other music players crashing in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (gstreamer)
After my new installation of Ubuntu on my new rig, I was annoyingly unable to play music with Clementine. When Clementine was run from the command line, it would exit with “Segmentation fault”. A gdb backtrace showed that it was gstreamer that was crashing, so I found and updated from the PPA for GStreamer developers [...]
SSD in Linux and trim (“discard”)
My new workstation is “finished”; I’ve been using it for client work and all seems well. I meant to post interim updates on its progress along with some photos, but got carried away with the build. No doubt I’ll get some photos on here soon. One minor issue which I resolved (at least for now) [...]
Workstation PC build: 1 – components
A short while ago my workstation computer’s power supply unit went bang, and after taking it to the PC repair shop down the road it transpired that it took down the motherboard with it. I’d been planning to get a new PC for a while anyway, and this event brought the upgrade forward rather abruptly. [...]
Converting multiple PDFs to plain text in GNU/Linux
Yesterday, I wanted to convert over a hundered PDFs to plain text to allow for easier and quicker copying and pasting during product updates for a client. After a short while searching I found a nice and effective way to go about it, and I’m very pleased with how it handles line breaks and paragraphs.