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Convert CHM files to PDF for Nook and Amazon Kindle
The downside to eReaders is generally the small screen. You open up a PDF file and the fonts are smaller than you’d wish them to be. You can always zoom, but why not prepare your file from the beginning? If you have a CHM file and you want to convert it to a PDF to [...] Continue reading
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Convert eBooks in Linux
Say you just bought an Amazon Kindle or a Barnes and Noble Nook. You want to convert your eBook collection to .EPUB or .MOBI format. For this, install Calibre. The application not only provides you with a graphical way to manage your eBook collection, but also comes with a set of useful command-line tools. One [...] Continue reading
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Play videos packed in RAR without extracting them in Linux
Most DivX/XviD movies you download from Torrent sites are packed in multiple RAR archives. It takes some time for each to extract. If you don;t want to wait, you can use VLC and unrar to play the file within instantly. You won’t be able to rewind and move fast forward within the file, but you’ll [...] Continue reading
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Create an autostartup script for Debian and Ubuntu systems
In Debian-based distributions (and here I’m also talking about the widely-spread Ubuntu), there is no rc.local file preinstalled. The good thing is that you can make one easily so you can have a place to put commands to be started up automatically at boot. Here’s what you have to do:
sudo nano /etc/init.d/local.autostart
You can name the [...] Continue reading
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Find details about your ISO images from the Linux command line
If you ever wondered what that mysterious ISO file you downloaded two years ago is, and don’t want to burn the image, you can view details of the volume with a simple command:
isoinfo -d -i filename.iso
You’ll be given details like the volume size, if the image file is a bootable one and other valuable information.
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Make MPlayer play h264 video files faster on multicore machines
You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this. First, use Subversion to download the code for MPlayer:
svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
Then the code for ff-mpeg
svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk ffmpeg-mt
Remove the old [...] Continue reading
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Know when someone accesses your files in GNOME
Say you want to write a small shell script that locks up your GNOME desktop at specific intervals. What command would you use?In this case, your best bet would be
gnome-screensaver-command –lock
This has the same effect as you pushing the Lock Screen button in GNOME. You can forge a small shellscript and use this to lock [...] Continue reading
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