HOW TO RECORD MMS TO A FILE

LINUX MPLAYER

# mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile outfile.wma -dumpstream mms://media1.broadneeds.com.br/91rock

# mencoder mms://address.of.site/movie.wmv -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi

blue screen and reboot after clonning harddisk

Yesterday I cloned a 30Gb with windows xp to a 60Gb IDE Hard Disk using a Linux Live CD (System Rescue CD) and the command "dd" (disk druid)

Sintax:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd

Problem:
after clonning and swap the disks windows xp started to give me blue screen of death and rebooted at logo screen.
I tried to boot with windows xp instalation cd and repair windows instalation (no sucess)
I tried to boot in Safe Mode and in device manager delete harddisk drivers and IDE ATA Controllers and reboot (worked but not for a long time)

Solution:
The problem was that I changed the IDE cable of the HardDisk.
I thought that the IDE flat cables are all the same thing, but I was wrong, some IDE cables are different, or maybe my cable was damaged.
After using the cable that was there before, windows started with no problems.

So, pay atention to the IDE cables after clonning disks.

After clonning a disk to a larger one, you need a program like "Partition Magic" to resize the partition to the full size of the disk.

Some reference:
http://www.pchell.com/hardware/masterslaveorcableselect.shtml