Subtitle Downloader
I’m a big fan of simple applications that fill a big void or annoyance in life, and one of those annoyances is finding suitable subtitle files (.srt files) for your movie rips. To fill this void is a simple application called SubDownloader that does its best to crawl the ‘net for suitable subtitle files for whatever movie you select in the file browser.
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Red Hat for Mature Audiences Only
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Ubuntu vs Vista Resource Usage
Everyone always rambles on about how much of a resource hog Windows Vista is compared to Linux, so I figured why not find out exactly how much of a hog it really is?
For this comparison, I have pitted the following versions of Ubuntu and Vista against each other:
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 and all system updates to 29th October 2008
- Ubuntu Linux 8.04.1 Hardy Heron with all system updates to 29th October 2008
- Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Release Candidate with all system updates to 29th October 2008 (just for kicks)
The tests would be simple. A fresh vanilla install of Ubuntu and Vista doing four of the most common things a typical user might do everyday:
- Nothing
- View a web page
- Listen to an MP3 music track
- Play Solitaire
Recovering an NTFS volume using Ubuntu
I have a friend who has an external USB portable hard-drive that inexplicably seemed to develop CRC errors when reading files off the NTFS-formatted volume. This rapidly developed into full-blown drive drive shutdowns on major errors and it was evident that something was seriously wrong with it.
