Red Alert on Linux for free (via DosBox)

Offered as a free download from EA website ; this oldie, but goodie game brings you in 2 CDs back in a alternate / parallel / temporal war-torn universe were Allies and Soviets Comrades are in constant fighting over world domination.

Now the good news is that even though the game was originally for Dos/Windows - it could works also under OS X and Linux
using Dosbox or Boxer for Mac - but it needs some tweaking :

Otherwise that's pretty much the end of the adventure before you begin
as the game requires to access the cd-rom (labelled as CD1 or CD2
depending on the party you're playing)

the fix is to type this dos command or to create a .bat file that includes

mount d /media/cdrom -t cdrom -label CD1

then launch RA.exe and enjoy

pyRenamer 0.6

via Linux for Designers by Eckhard M. Jäger on 9/24/08

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Besides Phatch the mass file renamer pyRenamer is one of my favorite batch tools. Version 0.6 brings besides many bugfixes a lot of new features:
→ You can save your favorite patterns to reuse them
→ Undo/redo feature
→ Now you can rename more music formats (ogg, real... those supported by hachoir)
→ You can keep file extensions untouched while renaming
→ Now you can rename directories
→ Allow renaming files and moving them to another directory
→ Added some icons to identify file types
→ Added random number pattern {rand}
→ Added refresh option, to reload files and directories
→ Added autopreview option
→ Add option to fix duplicated symbols on filename
→ Add option to ignore next errors while renaming
→ Better explanations on error dialogs
→ New icon
A Deb archive fur Ubuntu is available for download too.

Putting Chrome into Wine

Apparently Linux guys have successfully put Chrome into Wine

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