Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

[Solved] Convert flv to mp3 in Ubuntu

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 1,601 views

You got a pile of flv in your hard disk and you are on Ubuntu, now only if you could convert them all to mp3. There is a short solution to this problem. And now am slowly drifting away from Windows completely (duh did I say...I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R on windows) Problem: How ...

[Solved] No sound in flash - Ubuntu/Debian

Monday, May 19th, 2008 295 views

I installed ubuntu Hardy Herom a few days back and was baffled by not hearing any sound in flash video when another audio/video device was running in background. The problem seem to be with pulseaudio. Problem: There is no sound heard in flash videos when I was playing mp3 files in exaile audio ...

[Solved] fdisk -l bash: command not found

Monday, May 19th, 2008 354 views

make sure to enter root mode by using "su -" enter above wihtour quotes and then when prompted for password enter the root password. remember hyphen "-" is necessary to include the bin directory containing this command, a lot other commands will work too now No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet ...

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Ubuntu/Debian

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 2,233 views

Updated on: 03 Feb, 2009 at 5:41 AM IST Long time back when I installed Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn, I wondered how do I get to enable intenet connection sharing to other computer connected in LAN with mine (on which ubuntu/debian is installed). Here is one easy solution to do this, thought it ...

GNOME Color Chooser - A great tool

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 5,310 views

Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:24 PM IST I found this tool to be a great GUI enhancer without any hassles of digging from the developer perspective. After all we need easy life and why waste time in doing something which is less of a priority, at least for me. ...

[Solved] Play .m4a format in Debian

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 229 views

Use this command to open sources.list file(You must be in super user mode su): [sourcecode language='bash']gedit /etc/apt/sources.list[/sourcecode] Now copy paste the below line to the opened file: [sourcecode language='bash']deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ testing main[/sourcecode] Now update the local database using the command [sourcecode language='bash']aptitude update[/sourcecode] Now install aac package [sourcecode language='bash']aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad[/sourcecode] No related posts. Related posts brought to you ...

[Pre-Baked] Intel 965 GMA X3000 xorg.conf

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 210 views

Updated on: 03 August, 2008 12:55 AM IST Here is mine manually configured and tested xorg.conf file, Compiz fusion works like charm. Replace it with your xorg.conf file if u are not satisfied with the performance. Here is how to copy using command line Caution: You may have to set Monitor parameters as mine ...

[Solved] No CD ROM detected by the installer (Debian)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 187 views

Here is my configuration:Intel DG965RY Motherboard Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz Processor 1 GB RAM 533Hz Transcend 2x180 GB Seagate SATA, 1x80GB Seagate Barracuda Problem :( I was pissed off by the installer not detecting the CD when it comes to the stage where it detects hardware, at the point of detecting CD ROM it ...

Can’t install xine plugins in Ubuntu ?

Friday, March 21st, 2008 195 views

Here is what you see when you try to install xine extra plugins from Add/Remove in Ubuntu Solution is to install these plugins from Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manger). No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Glipper - Clipboard for Ubuntu

Saturday, March 15th, 2008 255 views

Glipper is a GUI version of clipboard in Ubuntu, with some options and easy to access UI, it really helps a lot Here is how to install it and automatically start on logon. Step 1 (Install the Glipper) Install the Glipper from Add/Remove in Ubunt Step 2 (To make it start on logon) No related ...