Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Access Microsoft Onedrive in Linux

Onedrive is a personal cloud storage from Microsoft (similar to Google Drive or Dropbox). It gave you fair amount of space to put your (un)important stuff on-line and have your mobile device access it later on.
Based on these instructions I'm able to connect to Microsoft Onedrive from Linux Mint 17 using onedrive-d . I use them with slight modifications as follow,
  1. The first step to installing onedrive-d is to open a terminal window and clone the source code from git using the following command:
    git clone https://github.com/xybu92/onedrive-d.git
  2. If you don’t have “git” installed, you can install it with the command:
    sudo apt-get install git
  3. Now change directory into the onedrive-d folder:
    cd onedrive-d
  4. Run the installation script:
    sudo ./install.sh
  5. After installation you should run:
    sudo onedrive-pref
  6. Answer with default values. In the end you have ~/OneDrive folder (at your home folder)
  7. To activate run:
    sudo onedrive-d start
Now you can access Onedrive as your local folder

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A Reason to Move

Not Into Linux Yet? Gaming hold you back? Here's a reason to move to Linux,

Humble Indie Bundle 14
The Humble Indie Bundle is back with 7 cross-platform games available DRM-free and on Steam!

Oh, did I tell you before for other reasons? Here's a few other:
  • The OS is free
  • Relatively secure, virus-free compared to W*****s. You can read this for reference
  • You're tired of hard disk defrags,  antivirus updates, wait (ages) while OS updates, always need restarting for stabilty
  • Came with essential apps (internet, office), free
  • Games are staying strong (Steam.com, GOG.com, Humblebundle.com)
  • Hunger for new challenges or fulfilling any curiosity on computing
  • or any of you can add more to the list?

Change of Name

Changed my blog name to reflect more of the content. I don't play that much though, but still am.