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Convert WMV into AVI with Ubuntu
2007-09-23 13:41:00
Actually this tip is applicable to any Linux distribution mencoder can be run at (like Ubuntu , Debian, Fedora, Suse and even Slackware ) MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats ...
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Disable double hyphen to dash wordpress replacements
2007-09-23 13:18:00
As we know latest wordpress.org blog publishing system includes feature that allows to replace double hyphens into single dash: -- into ? or ?. It’s rather trivial issue but Linux Screw blog contains a lot of shell code examples like sudo apt-get remove mc --purge and I was wondering how to disable it for a ...
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Network Traffic Generator: hping
2007-09-21 23:46:00
hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping program does with ICMP replies. hping3 handles fragmentation, arbitrary packets body and size and can be used in order to transfer files encapsulated under supported protocols. Using hping3 you are able to perform at least the ...
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Dump ipcad output into sqlite3
2007-09-21 23:21:00
ipcad is IP accounting daemon with Cisco-like ip accounting export. It runs in background, listens traffic on the specified interfaces, and records the traffic for later retrieval and analysis. Here is a piece of shell code that allows to export ipcad output into sqlite3 database format: echo "create table traffic (src, dst, pkt, bt);" | sqlite3 /tmp/throttle.db rsh ...

Interview with lead developer of XFCE
2007-09-21 22:45:00
What are Xfce ’s long term goals? What is the Xfce vision for the future? Hm, this is difficult… one thing is of course to maintain simplicity, in order to keep the fun in it. Besides that, I plan to add better support for laptop users (I'm using some of the GNOME stuff here today, but it ...
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Intel launches new site about power saving in Linux
2007-09-21 22:33:00
According to recent strategy to reduce power consumption of Linux systems, Intel launches new site Less Watts that contains useful tips for different types of computers: server, mobile and laptops. The LessWatts.org project gives the broader community insight into the advancements taking place in reducing power to drive the adoption of these technologies into ...
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VectorLinux - Slackware based lighterweight distribution
2007-09-21 21:41:00
Few days ago I came across rather interesting Linux distro: Speed, performance, stability are attributes that set VectorLinux apart in the crowded field of Linux distributions. VectorLinux is a lighterweight, fast, Linux operating system for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems and is based upon Slackware , one of the original Linux distributions. Slackware is the true 'Unix' of ...
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Get Wi-Fi working on Dell Inspiron 1501 with Ubuntu
2007-09-19 23:33:00
This howto would help you to get Wi-Fi card working on Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with ndiswrapper driver on Ubuntu . It was tested by me on Ubuntu Feisty. Delete previous appearances of ndiswrapper in your system: sudo rmmod ndiswrapper sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils sudo gnome-search-tool (type “ndiswrapper”, select “Look in folder” as “/” and press “Find” as it’s ...
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Install iTunes 7.2 in Ubuntu and other Linux distros
2007-09-19 22:49:00
iTunes is a media player that is available only for Windows and Mac OS X but also can be run in Linux with Wine. Certainly we’re interested in latter operating system :). The following manual shows how to get iTunes 7.2 running in Linux with wine 0.9.45. To install latest version of wine download corresponding ...
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Utility to install ATI or NVIDIA proprietary drivers in Ubuntu and Debian
2007-09-19 22:21:00
Envy is application available for Ubuntu and Debian and is written in Python and PyGTK that does: 1) detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported); 2) download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia’s websites; 3) handle the dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, etc.) ...
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Linux distro chooser
2007-09-19 22:09:00
Just came across nice site that helps new Linux users to choose right distro. You’ll find Linux Distribution Chooser in 18 languages here. As for me, my distros are Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and CentOS.
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Create Linux user with password
2007-09-19 21:56:00
Sometimes it’s necessary to create Linux user accounts in batch mode (fully automatic) but often newbies ask how to set password for a new user without entering it manually. Thanks to heaven command useradd can get password as an input parameter, but it should be encrypted. In other words, to create Linux user account with password ...
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Xen cluster on Debian for newbies
2007-09-18 22:38:00
Xen is a free software that runs on a host operating system and allows several guest operating systems to be run on top of the host on the same computer hardware at the same time. The following article tells how to set up Xen cluster based on Debian nodes with cluster virtualization management system Ganeti. ...
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Apache web server benchmark tool ab
2007-09-17 20:31:00
ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HTTP server. It is designed to give an impression of how Apache installation performs. This especially shows how many requests per second certain Apache installation is capable to serve. Manual of ab is rather extensive, so here is just useful example of it’s usage: ab ...
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Ping range of IP addresses in parallel with fping
2007-09-17 20:12:00
fping is a program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one ...
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Another Linux utility to investigate sockets
2007-09-17 19:45:00
SS is another Linux utility that can be used to dump socket statistics. Written by Alexey Kuznetsov it allows showing information similar to netstat. According to man ss it can display more TCP information than other tools. Here it an example of it’s usage: viper@viper-laptop:~$ ss -t -n State Recv-Q Send-Q ...
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Convert Nero image (.nrg) to ISO9660 (.iso)
2007-09-16 22:29:00
In case you need to convert Nero image file .nrg into regular ISO9660 .iso utility nrg2iso might be helpful then. It’s included into apt repositories of Debian and Ubuntu, so to install it execute: sudo aptitude install nrg2iso When it’s done, convert file by command: nrg2iso image.nrg image.iso Rather trivial task, right?
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Dell shares custom-tailored Ubuntu Feisty for it?s laptops
2007-09-16 21:09:00
As Dell ’s laptop owner I’d like to share information that Dell Inc. prepared special Ubuntu Feisty Fawn version especially for it’s Inspiron E1505N, Inspiron 1420N, Inspiron 530N laptops.     Dell Linux Engineering team has a remastered copy of the Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD available for download. It includes native system hardware support and many of the fixes ...
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Get changelog information from RPM and DEB package
2007-09-16 14:03:00
Here is a nice Linux tip: to get change information of some RPM package it’s enough to execute the following command rpm -q –changelog package for example rpm -q –changelog openssh will output something like: * Fri Mar 03 2006 Tomas Mraz - 4.3p2-4 - allow access if audit is not compiled in kernel (#183243) * Sat ...
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OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 released
2007-09-15 11:06:00
Latest version of the best office productivity suite Openoffice.org 2.3.0 is available for downloading. There are many improvements done, so release notes are here. Congranulations!
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Utorrent in Ubuntu with Firefox support
2007-09-13 23:38:00
1. Install Wine: To get latest version add Wine’s repositories to your source list: sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sourc es.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list Add the repository key: wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE 263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - Update apt-get: sudo apt-get update Install Wine: sudo apt-get install wine 2. Download utorrent: sudo wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.2/utorre nt.exe -O ~/.utorrent To launch utorrent use the command: wine ~/.utorrent To get Firefox to automatically ...
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Install Debian Linux from Microsoft Windows
2007-09-13 23:18:00
Next version of popular Linux distribution Debian will contain EXE application that is to be run in Windows for painless and harmless Debian installation. After a long process of review and polishing, the win32 loader from goodbye-microsoft.com has finally made its way to official Debian CDs. Latest daily builds of Debian lenny (the development version) are ...
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September 15th - Software Freedom Day
2007-09-13 17:12:00
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It’s goal of a celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, in business and everywhere. The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global ...
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Linux pop-up terminal/console utilities
2007-09-13 12:20:00
Few days ago I’ve got the quickest way to run console commands in Gnome. There are three utilities known providing pop-up console: YaKuake, Tilda and Yeahconsole. All of them are included into Ubuntu apt repository and can be installed by corresponding commands: sudo aptitude install yakuake sudo aptitude install tilda sudo aptitude install yeahconsole At the next ...
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Nokia E-series sync with Evolution via Bluetooth in Ubuntu
2007-09-12 20:21:00
The Nokia E-series consists of business-oriented smartphones, with emphasis on support for corporate e-mail. Currently Nokia e-series includes: E60, E61, E70, E50, E61i, E65, E90. This is a howto (provided by Nailor) shows how to sync Nokia E-series phone (Symbian 9.1, Series 60 3rd edition) with Gnome Evolution in Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) and Feisty Fawn (7.04). ...
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Nokia E61/E62 sync with Gnome Evolution in Kubuntu
2007-09-12 19:55:00
This step-by-step manual, kindly provided by mjfleck2000, tells how to sync Nokia E-series E61 and E62 with Gnome Evolution under Kubuntu .
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Testing system validity
2007-09-12 10:26:00
IBM: System s Administration Toolkit: Testing system validity The typical UNIX® administrator has a key range of utilities, tricks, and systems he or she uses regularly to aid in the process of administration. There are key utilities, command-line chains, and scripts ...
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KDE on Nokia Internet Tablet n800 and n770
2007-09-12 10:19:00
The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia. The N800 was developed as the successor to the Nokia 770. It is designed for wireless Internet browsing and e-mail functions and includes software such as FM and Internet radio, an RSS news reader, image viewer and media players for selected types of ...

What is a Linux guy doing at Sun?
2007-09-12 09:15:00
As part of Sun Microsystems’ first CommunityOne, Ian Murdock, Sun’s chief operating system platform strategist and a self-described “Linux guy”, hosted a noteworthy session that explored a curious question: How can we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux? Murdock has a storied history in relation to Linux. A Linux user, developer, and advocate ...
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Get information about Linux kernel modules
2007-09-11 23:15:00
Small tip: there is modinfo utility to get more information regarding Linux kernel modules. Here is an example of it’s usage: viper@viper-laptop:~$ modinfo ati_agp filename: /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-lowlatency/kernel/ drivers/char/agp/ati-agp.ko license: GPL and additional rights author: Dave Jones srcversion: ...
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