When I deleted the blog, I kept the articles. So here's that one. I apologise for the length.
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n lists by typing them or pointing to a location where they are.
===== Change the colors to something ... ful and annoying. For eg. Excel would tell me if there is an “inconsistent formula in region”. Very usef... the number of sheets and formulas you have used. There is one trick to reduce the size of excel files wi... calculations hogging system resources. Of course there is a way to force excel to calculate formulas whe
th you on an encrypted USB stick is very useful.
Here are my personal notes how I did this. I have writ... me,errors=remount-ro 0 1
==== tmpfs ====
There should be no application that writes data that ne... to the /tmp directory. Let's move it into RAM so there are no disk reads or writes associated with it's ... AMFS images are loaded from your slower storage. There is a simple alteration that makes Grub output a l
ks that are best done on the command line ======
Here are a few tasks that you might want to consider u... ====
Unless you are doing some sort of cropping there is no reason to load up Photoshop or the Gimp. A ... t simplistic and powerful image applications out there.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
===== Burn an ISO...
ffmpeg -i video_origine.mpg video_finale.avi
There are all sorts of things you can do with ffmpeg.
e [#0000FF], globally [/g] in main.css. Two notes here: 1) This does not actually modify the file, but o... of red with green in our CSS file. The -r option here gives us extra regex functionality. As Sheila men... line
You *might* have to type a tab instead of t here depending on your version of sed
sed -r 's/^[ t... '
Delete all occurances of foo
sed 's/foo//g'
Here are some good references you should bookmark
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free space using built-in cypher command ======
There's plenty of utilities to help you securely delete... les so nobody can recover them, but did you know there's a built-in command-line utility that can do just that? Here's how to do it.
As long as you're using the NTFS
nary encoded Type1 fonts (a .pfb and a .pfm file) here is how to create the afm files for then:
Right c... ice in Linux needs an accompanying .afm file, and here's how to create the .afm file from the .pfb file:... pt-get install t1lib-bin
* Go to the directory where the .pfb file was installed, e.g.: cd ~/.fonts
... s/...
This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed,
ws were drawn when being moved. This has never bothered me in Compiz, but Metacity is definitely much sm... ny windows to flicker as they are redrawn. Also, there are still no options for any of the compositing e... ty/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true
Here’s the corresponding command to disable compositin
tu 11.04 fingerprint ======
Fingerprint Reader
There are apparently two ways to activate the Fingerpri... com/ThinkFinger from Synaptic) and 2) Fprint from here https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprin... ng Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, 11.04, or any derivative thereof. Packages for Ubuntu 9.10 are also available, b... sixth column of which has the form of xxxx:yyyy, where xxxx is the Vendor ID and yyyy the Product ID. An
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Unless you are doing some sort of cropping there is no reason to load up Photoshop or the Gimp. A ... t simplistic and powerful image applications out there.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
===== Burn an ISO...
ffmpeg -i video_origine.mpg video_finale.avi
There are all sorts of things you can do with ffmpeg.
ayer dvd://2 -identify, and quit. Now scroll up, there is some important information about the tracks wh... t step. I have extraced the important information here:
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
ID_AID_128_LANG=de
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subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: de
So there is audio language de and ja, and 2 subtitles for ... e x264 does an awesome job at preserving quality where it is important.
* I only rip with variable bit
ho are using Ubuntu Jaunty, you will notice that there is a change in the way the system notifies you to... an icon will appear on the system tray whenever there is new update available. In Ubuntu Jaunty, instea
e of the file /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3
Here few commands that allows you to dig within the db... and content.
If you identify, for example, that there are very old entries (in my case, entries from 2 ... es with this command:
sqlite> DELETE FROM bans WHERE DATE(timeofban, 'unixepoch') < '2020-01-01'; VACU
ally nice is the LaTeX integration using sagetex. Here's how to set this up:
===== Compile yourself ===... ld =====
Download the file for you platform from here http://www.sagemath.org/download-linux.html
Unpa
ally want and have to embed videos in powerpoint, here's how to do it.
First of all: Don't totally rely... any problem when embedded in powerpoint. If not, here are some things to check/try:
* I've had proble
