Hellooo.
I’ve now updated the post Fedora 11 on the Acer Aspire One with a new thing; How to enable autologin.
I will also be explaining how to properly format your USB-pen so that making a Live-USB is easier, and less troublesome. Head on over and have a look. :)
A oneliner with Perl does the trick:
The output you get should be placed in a file called htpasswd. The syntax is like so:
Ever wondered how you can password protect a folder and the underlying content with nginx the same way Apache does? Pretty simple.
First create a htpass-file like so:
Edit your site’s configuration file by adding the following lines of code inside the server-block:
And your folder should be password protected. :)
Easy peasy.
First we need to create a file called chromium.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and put the following content in it:
[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
Save and close the file. When done, execute the following command:
And you’re done. :)
It’s actually not as hard as you think:
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
cd /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/plugins/
tar -zxvf /root/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
Now start up Chromium with:
Works great!
25th of May 2008 I wrote a post about how you could join multiple files that looked something like movie.avi.001, movie.avi.002 and so on. I found a new tool that does the job a bit easier, lxsplit. The syntax of lxsplit is like so:
[jorge@ashitaka ~]$ lxsplit
LXSplit v0.2.4 by Richard Stellingwerff, O. Sezer.
Home page: http://lxsplit.sourceforge.net/
Usage: lxsplit [OPTION] [FILE] [SPLITSIZE]
Available options:
-j : join the files beginning with the given name
-s : split the given file. requires a valid size
Splitsize examples: 15M, 100m, 5000k, 30000000b
Examples:
lxsplit -s hugefile.bin 15M
lxsplit -j hugefile.bin.001
So to join all our files, we execute:
And it will join all files named movie.avi.00{1,2,3} and so on. :)
This is a oneliner to convert an avi-file to the correct dimensions of a Nokia E71. The screen is small, but sure beats to buy an iTouch if your cell already can play movies for you. :)
ffmpeg -y -i input.avi -acodec libfaac -ab 72k -s 320x176 -aspect 16:9 -vcodec libx264 -b 300k -qcomp 0.6 -r 25 -qmin 16 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -subq 7 -refs 6 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -sc_threshold 40 -me_range 12 -i_qfactor 0.71 -directpred 3 output.mp4
Often found that Samba is slow, for some reason?
The socket option TCP_NODELAY is the one that seems to make the biggest single difference for most networks. Many people report that adding socket options = TCP_NODELAY doubles the read performance of a Samba drive. The best explanation I have seen for this is that the Microsoft TCP/IP stack is slow in sending TCP ACKs.
Simply add this following line under the [global]-section of your smb.conf:
And restart the service. Notice the difference?
If not, it might be a problem with Windows. Often a speed problem can be traced to the client. The client (for example Windows for Workgroups) can often be tuned for better TCP performance. Check out this article to find out more about what you can do to increase the speed.
Good luck!
Wondering what you need to do in order to install Java on a 64 bit Linux installation? Few and simple steps really.
First head over to the Download-section at . Select to download the file named Linux x64 RPM (if you’re using an RPM-based distribution like Fedora). Once it’s downloaded, and assuming it has been downloaded to the folder Download, do the following:
After agreeing to the license terms, just type Yes and press enter. Now making the plugin work with Firefox. Just execute the following command:
ln -s /usr/java/latest/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
Cross your fingers, restart Firefox, and things should hopefully be working. :) Head over here to check out if it worked.
Good luck!
Update: For a newer and updated equalizer-plugin, check out the post Rhythmbox Equalizer Revisited. Everything below here is outdated.
For a while I’ve been using audacious to play my music. No particular reason, other than that it has an equalizer. I’ve heard lots of good things about Rhythmbox though, but lacking an equalizer, I never turned to it. But now, thanks to Teemu Kallio from , I at least am going to start using Rhythmbox.
Grab the file from . I used to link to the main site, but it seems that it has been taken down.
So, the installation:
wget http://jorge.fbarr.net/files/rhythmbox-eq.tar.gz
mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/
tar -zxvf rhythmbox-eq.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/
And that’s pretty much it. Fire up Rhythmbox, go to Edit -> Plugins and select Equalizer. Now press the Configure-button to configure it. If you want the Rock-preset that you usually find in audacious and/or xmms, make the equalizer have the same values as in the screenshot below:
A big thanks to Teemu Kallio. :)
First install the program called bchunk:
Now we convert .bin/.cue to .iso:
And there you go.