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I wanted to have a quick way to rotate the images I take with my digital camera. The Olympus Camedia C-4000 always writes "1" als orientation into the EXIF data (either it doesn't have an orientaiton sensor or it is broken), therefore I cannot rotate the images automatically by the command

jhead -autorot *.jpg

So I created a desktop file ~/bin/rotate90clockwise.desktpop with the following content

This is copied from http://users.pandora.be/Ice9/Linux stuff/Linux_tips.html. I have used the second method as the desktop file appeared to be disfunctional judging from its content and had been created during the time when the error appeared first (that was when I was playing with the File associations section of the control center). KDE returns "Couldn't find MIME type application/octet-stream" at startup and/or Konqueror returns the same error message when launching whatever application.

I have a couple of scratched CDs with DivX video files. Both VLC and DivX Player were not able to play these files beyond the first corrupted frames. They tried to resume, but because the damage was too much, they did get stuck completely. But I found a player that handles most of these problems quite well: BSPlayer. It is only available for Windows though...