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In the old days, Linux fans where not able to see the M$ video streams, and although it is still a problematic format downloading it has become easier.

What you need is: gstreamer, totem-gstreamer and all the good, bad and ugly plugins for gstreamer (not sure which the mmssrc plugin is part of)

If you are recoding large directories of files, or creating directory indexes, you may need a script that runs another script in a directory. The easiest way to do this is probably using something like the bash for loop:

Although you may think this should work, it has a small problem: if the directory does not exist, the first cd will fail and cd - will bring you back to the last dir you did. After entering that directory, the next directory will fail and bring you even more back into time etc.

A solution may be the following:

Which makes sure to only cd - when you enter the directory correctly. But now we go a step further and run into something else. How do we combine this with xargs? The obvious solution:

won't work correctly: the && will become part of the a new command as bash interprets it as the end of the xargs command and a conditional.

Tired of hacking together and to stupid to find the good obvious solution, I decided to write a little bash script which entails the last part of the previous xargs command and save it as inDirDo:

Due to hosting costs, I decided to switch hosting companies. Because sourcelocation.net is part of the hosting package and I'm hosting my site in Germany (cheap) and I didn't want to go into moving sourcelocation.net (it's a boring name anyway) I decided to start looking for another hostname.