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Ubuntu Linux uppercase directory names converted to lowercase
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 | Author:

I discovered that any directory I created on a vfat file system in Linux whose name consisted solely of uppercase letters, and was 8 characters or less in length, was being converted to a lowercase name.
This was causing problems of J2EE war files being created containing both directories “WEB-INF” and “web-inf”.

The fix was to add the shortname=winnt option to the file system mapping in /etc/fstab, and then reboot.

So the line in /etc/fstab would be, for example:

UUID=483E-D7D6 /data vfat shortname=winnt,utf8,umask=000,gid=100,uid=1000 0 1

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Ubuntu update system path
Monday, April 13th, 2009 | Author:

> sudo vi /etc/bash.bashrc

In the file, add or update:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/real/RealPlayer

To start using the new path:
> bash -login

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Connecting Zen Sleek to Amarok on Ubuntu
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | Author:

After installing all the required libraries (libnjb, etc), amarok would not recognise my Creative Zen Sleek MP3 player.

Gnomad2 would connect to it, but only if started with “sudo gnomad2″.

But, I found the issue – user privileges. Here’s how I got it working:

  • System / Administration / Users and Groups
  • Unlock if necessary
  • Select user
  • Properties / User Privileges
  • Check the “Use audio devices” box.  For some reason, this is unchecked by default

Amarok now connects, and gnomad does not need sudo, though I don’t need to use gnomad any more.

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