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Resizing/Shrinking a Windows NTFS Partition past the “Immovable System Files”
1 February 2012, 12:16 am

This cost me a whole evening, especially nowadays when some manufacturers don’t actually ship a Windows CD with their hardware anymore – so you can’t even just thrash Windows and reinstall on a smaller partition. Just so much effort to b […]

Cannot play anything with VLC on OpenSUSE?
31 January 2012, 11:44 pm

Mplayer and Kaffeine and such work perfectly fine (which means codecs are properly installed)? Getting irritating and inexplicable errors like these? main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mpga’. VLC probably does not support thi […]

Oh and btw..
23 January 2012, 4:04 pm

Happy Lunar New Year to my fellow Chinks! (and to everyone else too, actually) May your Great Anime be abundant and your Linuxboxes spin with roaring power and magnificence in the Year of the Dragon! /Cheesy season greetings :) […]

Anisong of the Season: Oath Sign
23 January 2012, 2:30 am

So I decided to resurrect Anisong of the Season. Fall 2011 was an overall pretty awesome season with plenty of great music. It felt like almost every show had an OP, ED or both worth sitting through – Tamayura, Last Exile, Chihayafuru, Guilty Crown, […]

Building mplayer-mt for Multi-Core HD Video Decoding
14 January 2012, 5:03 pm

Unable to play that 1080p video without lagging? Wanna watch that 720p video file on dated hardware? Well here’s something you can try. Basically the default behavior of most video players is such that they only hog a single core while doing video d […]

Because there aren’t yet enough Nisemonogatari 01 posts out there
13 January 2012, 11:36 pm

Low camera angles, white colored silhouettes, delicious, abusive sarcasm, lens flares. What can I say. Okaerinasai. (Yes, there are already a tonne of voices going nuts about Nise out there, my own incoherent tweet included. Sue me, I’m filing anoth […]