April 12th, 2007 mysurface
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn has improves in graphics and user friendliness, one of the tools install by default is baobab. Baobab is one of the gnome utils. As the name didn’t suggest anything, but it is a cool disk usage analyzer. As it scan your folders and present you the disk usage statistics reports in graphs. [...]
Posted in Misc, X11, baobab | Hits: 17028 | 2 Comments »
April 4th, 2007 mysurface
There a plenty of linux live cd, check out frozentech.com, scroll down the list and you will see this line:
Currently displaying 315 LiveCD/DVDs
With various tools such as Kadischi, linux live script, Ubuntu Customization Kit etc, you can easily come out your own live cd. What you required is just the matter of time to fine [...]
Posted in Misc, df, fdisk, ls, scp | Hits: 20007 | 12 Comments »
April 2nd, 2007 mysurface
First of all, how to play DVD and VCD using mplayer?
mplayer -fs dvd://1
The line shows the play dvd first track in fullscreen, further more if you wanna play in certain language?
mplayer -fs dvd://1 -alang de
The same way goes to vcd.
mplayer -fs vcd://1
Sometimes certain VCD doesn’t play well, due to the format of certain tracks [...]
Posted in Misc, mplayer | Hits: 14080 | 7 Comments »
March 27th, 2007 mysurface
figlet is a handy tool used to beautify your display in virtual terminal, it display large letter which make up by ascii codes.
figlet hi mysurface
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Posted in Misc, figlet, figlist | Hits: 9307 | 1 Comment »
March 21st, 2007 mysurface
Sometimes, you may find some file you can’t delete because of the filename begins with minus(-). LBE have that example on the post “Remove file start with special character”, as simple as this
rm ./-life.mp3
The same way you can manipulate those files by mv, cp etc. The important highlights here is ./
dot(.) is actually means current [...]
Posted in Common, mplayer, mv, rm | Hits: 14606 | 3 Comments »
March 17th, 2007 mysurface
There are a lots of people install and use other windows manager on top of gnome, instead of using metacity by default. Windows manager such as beryl, fluxbox, fvwm etc allows gtk applications to run on top of them with full capabilities. You can also run gtk applications under KDE where by default all KDE [...]
Posted in Misc, X11, fluxbox, gtk-theme-switch | Hits: 17345 | 1 Comment »
March 15th, 2007 mysurface
There are many cases where when I run a program from a terminal (gnome-terminal, xterm etc), and I accidentally close the terminal, the program will be terminated as well. This happen even I send the program to background, for example I initiate xmms from gnome-terminal
xmms &
When I close the gnome terminal, xmms is terminated as [...]
Posted in Misc, nohup | Hits: 9012 | 1 Comment »
March 7th, 2007 mysurface
If you heard of ubuntuvideo.com and you will discover a lots of ubuntu tutorial at there. There are a blog post that uses patched ffmpeg to perform the art. Here, I introduce you a handy tool xvidcap. You can download it from here.
I downloaded ver 1.1.4p1 and it runs well under Ubuntu Edgy. Xvidcap uses [...]
Posted in Misc, xvidcap, xwininfo | Hits: 16464 | 3 Comments »
March 1st, 2007 mysurface
You can easily extract audio from video files such as avi, mpg, even flv! into mp3 uses either mplayer or ffmpeg. You can even record online stream into mp3, such as stream from radio cast.
Lets begin with mplayer. To extract audio from video files, use -dumpaudio option and specified the output filename with -dumpfile
mplayer -dumpaudio [...]
Posted in Misc, ffmpeg, mplayer | Hits: 65281 | 20 Comments »
February 28th, 2007 mysurface
Linux can be run on various run level, for run level 0 is shutdown, and run level 6 is restart and usually run level 1 is single user linux.
By default, fedora and red hat will running run level 5 and Ubuntu is running 2. By knowing what run level of your linux distro init, you [...]
Posted in Admin, Misc, runlevel | Hits: 7948 | 1 Comment »
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