Quick tip:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/autoplay_vcd_command "vlc %m" gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/autoplay_dvd_command "vlc %m"
No more crappy totem spawning when you insert a DVD or VCD, but instead the pleasure of VLC.
Bon Jovi’s new single has been released for online listening.
I have found a solution to my media player woes, Amarok, it serves as a nice replacement to mpd which has served me well. I will miss the flexibility of mpd but the featureset of Amarok is just amazing, all I need now is to get my QT apps looking more like GTK ones.
My Ubuntu installation had been getting rather touchy and unstable so I eventually bit the bullet and went for a total system nuke and reinstall. After a royal screw up I got my system reinstalled. The CD image I downloaded got corrupted on the wire but still worked, one of the core Gnome packages got modified and the MD5SUM checking failed and it refused to install. So, I got left with a broken installer and a text mode system, eventually I managed to get Gnome up and redownload the ISO and reburn (verifying the MD5SUM of the ISO before this time) and reinstalled again and it worked first time, even though I did fall asleep.
Now my next problem is finding a media player I like, looks like I might be going back to mpd, which is the root of all my problems I think.
Adverts and other privacy intrusions are annoying fact of life on the World Wide Web, Firefox users have had a solution to this available for years in the form of Adblock and more recently Adblock Plus. Personally I use Adblock Plus because I like its inbuilt support for subscriptions to filter lists. I now have my own, small, filter list which sorts out some general annoyances I come accross whilst journeying with wilderness of the world wide web.
Subscribe to my filter list. (You need Adblock Plus installed for this to work)
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