Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Posted in 3D, games, linux, ubuntu | Comments Off
[code lang="shell"]sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install wine1.2 wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks vcrun2005 sh winetricks d3dx9 wine regedit[/code] under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn't already exist inside Direct3D create the following ... Read more..Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in electronics, media, video | Comments Off
The Boxee Box by D-Link Vudu XL Popcorn Hour C-200 LG BD390 PlayOn!HD Roku Mvix Ultio Netgear EVA2000 Neuros Link Another option would be to use an Home Theater PC (HTPC), more expensive but also more versatile. ... Read more..Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Posted in linux, ubuntu | Comments Off
For some reason, Ubuntu Karmic wasn't saving my sound volume and settings that I set using the Sound Preferences. After attempting to run alsactl store I got: $ alsactl store alsactl: save_state:1530: ... Read more..Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in linux | Comments Off
If your Ubuntu installation (or any other linux distribution that has a liveCD) is broken and can't boot because of a faulty update, you can try to update your installation ... Read more..Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in linux | Comments Off
Re: help!! the last update broke my boot press alt+printscreen+r (to release the keyboard from the Xserver) then hit crtl+alt+F1 (and log in) sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the ... Read more..Sunday, September 13th, 2009 Posted in internet, linux, phone, voip | Comments Off
Skype 2.1.0.47 beta uses pulseaudio as the default sound device, so you need to change the default sound device fo skype using a pulseaudio. Install pavucontrol if it's not already installed Start ... Read more..Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in linux, slackware | Comments Off
How-To Change The Default Sound Card in Slackware Linux My case: I have an on-board sound card that I use for everything except for Skype, where I use my Logitech ClearChat ... Read more..Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in linux | Comments Off
In this example, I pass the parameter "card=42" to the module "saa7134" when the module loads at boot time. Add your module to /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot ... Read more..Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in linux, web, windows | Comments Off
There are only 2 files you need to backup: signons.sqlite key3.db You can find those in your Firefox profile: Linux ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/ Windows Click the Windows Start button, and select Run.... Type in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click OK. You can then ... Read more..Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in linux, productivity | Comments Off
This example Bash script replaces ".JPG" with ".jpg" recursively in the current directory (It can handle filenames with spaces): #!/bin/bash find ./ -type f -name "*.JPG" | while read FILE do ... Read more..Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in linux, productivity, windows | Comments Off
For example, you have 2 sheets, Sheet1 and Sheet2: they both have a list of part numbers in column A and a list of prices in column B. You ... Read more..Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in linux, slackware, video | Comments Off
with the latest ffmpeg installed, I add to temporarily move the following directories in my home directory for the MythTV compilation to go smoothly: /usr/include/libavcodec/ /usr/include/libavformat/ /usr/include/libavutil/ Read more..Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in linux, perl, programming, windows | Comments Off
KinoSearch is the winner The following perl scripts index *.txt in the current folder and search for "TEST". The first one is using Perl's KinoSearch module and the other one ... Read more..Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in free, linux, video | Comments Off
How to record a screencast with sound from the sound server (e.g.: ALSA) using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/audio -f x11grab -s 800x600 -r 15 -i :0.0 output.avi Read more..Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in hardware, linux, windows | Comments Off
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The instruction in UPGRADE.TXT worked fine but I also needed to reconfigure the NVIDIA Video driver to have OpenGL subsystem working fine. Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in internet, linux | Comments Off
Bonding multiple network interfaces can be used for load balancing or fault tolerance. Bonding Reference What can you do with a second Ethernet port? A simple tutorial Note: Bonding is also called port trunking ... Read more..Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Here's what I needed to add/modify to the Program.SlackBuild file downloaded from SlackBuilds: ARCH=${ARCH:-x86_64} # modified elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64"]; then # added SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" ... Read more..Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in perl | Comments Off
Setup cpan: [plain]$ mkdir ~/perl $ mkdir -p ~/.cpan/CPAN $ touch ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm $ cpan[/plain] [plain]cpan> o conf init[/plain] Set the following settings: [plain]'cpan_home' => q[/home/username/.cpan], 'build_dir' => q[/home/username/.cpan/build] 'keep_source_where' => q[/home/username/.cpan/sources], 'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=~/perl] 'mbuildpl_arg' => q[--install_base /home/username] [/plain] Get and Install the ... Read more..Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Programs needed for batch converting PDFs to an image file (pdf2jpg, pdf2jpeg, pdf2png): ImageMagick Windows version Unix/Linux Download Tutorial by examples Ghostscript Download Note: Once Ghostscript is installed, you might need to add it to your ... Read more..Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 Posted in linux, security, windows | Comments Off
Resources for setting up a motion-detection camera security system controlled from your PC using an analog camera. Tutorials Using your PC and a Webcam as a security camera MythTV and a Security Camera Setting ... Read more..