Wallpapers Côte d’Azur 1920×1200

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Road some where neer Valensole

Apart form casual posts on this blog this time I’m not adding dev or linux tips. Today I want to share some pictures.
I prepared set of high resolution, high quality wallpapers. The set contains photos taken last time on several trips through south of France. Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur is a really pretty place. All images are in resolution 1920×1200.

Pictures can be downloaded from my Flickr gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzelazko.

Photos have been taken in Antibes, Apus, Castellane, Îles de Lérins, Massif de l’Esterel, Col de Villefranche, Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, Valensole – all of them looks nice on the desktop and much better on live ;)

PHP in enterprise applications. Comparison of PHP5 Frameworks.

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PHP5 Enterprise is common name for large, heavily loaded applications, visited by so huge amount of users who can not by handled by a single server. This large applications usually use open source libraries aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development. In PHP5, there are several sets of closely related libraries and frameworks.

This post describe speed and load tests of three popular PHP frameworks: Symfony Framework, Zend Framework and cakePHP. Continue reading →

Vim IDE and PHP / Symfony / Web develompment

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VIM Logo VIM is very useful feature reach development environment. Its look & feel is beet different than other well known IDE. This difference is VIM power – it is extremely fast, has syntax highlighting, auto indent, bracket matching, code folding, etc.

VIM can work as the fastest professional development environment but requires from user change some of his habits. For the convenience of working with VIM you will need few free lessons (from vimtutor) a bit time and tips from this blog. After all you will work the most efficiently with the VIM, faster than in any other editor. Continue reading →

Speed test – Huawei E156G with and without antenna

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I bought Huawei E156G High Gain Magnetic Mount Antenna. If you want to know if aerial is only crap this article will show you speed test with and without antenna.

I made two speed tests: first used on-line SpeedTest, second used wget. I reconnected between each test – both between turning on / off antenna connector and changing on-line to wget speed test. Continue reading →

Mount TrueCrypt drive on boot time under Debian / Ubuntu

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There are several possibilities to mount encrypted, password protected TrueCrypt drive on boot time. This article describe how to create password protected TrueCrypt drive and mount it on boot time under GNU Linux.
We will create init.d script file and put them command which ask for password, create mount point and mount drive.
Requirements:

  • TrueCrypt – download it and install from truecrypt.org site
  • Debain / Ubuntu :)
  • Root prvivileges (I’m using sudo command)

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KDE4 and Iceweasel (Firefox)

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Your Firefox (Iceweasel) looks really bad under KDE 4? Wicd and Gimp are ugly? Thunderbird (Icedove) borders, buttons and menu are broken?
Tweaking Gnome Apps to change theirs look & feel on KDE is simple. Follow three steps described below and repair almost all GTK applications appearance under new KDE.
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Screenshot server

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GrabThemAll Server
Creating screenshot server is very simple with modified version of GrabThemAll – GrabThemAll Server.

Features
GrabThemAll Server is powerfull screenshot server that allows users to:

  • Create screenshot on server machine
  • Supports Windows and Linux platforms
  • Has Open Source licence
  • Can take screenshot from URL list file and screenshot of single page
  • Is fully customizable
  • And much more…

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Kadu Penguins for Tlen.pl

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I made an icon set for instant messenger Tlen.pl. Icons came from kde-look.org and are used with Kadu IM (popular linux instant messenger). Tlen 6.x icon set is based on a ‘Emoty GG 7.0 by Leshni@K’.

For Tlen 6.x users installation instructions can be found in the README.txt file in Kadu_Penguins.rar package. Kadu Penguins is available on Ekipa.tlen.pl site. Screenshot of icon set is also available there.

Tlen 7.x users should install Kadu_Penguins.o2e. To install it select “Tlen->Settings->Look and feel->Install addon” from Tlen menu, restart Tlen and select new emoticons set. Continue reading →

Convert MS VirtualPC machine to VirtualBox

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Microsoft released virtual machines with Internet Explorer images (IE6, IE7, IE8). These machines are very useful for webmasters and webdevelopers to test their sites / application on Microsoft “browser” (actually IE is not a browser but poor quality HTML interpreter).

There is only one “but” this machines works only on Windows with Microsoft VirtualPC. Below you can find description how to convert any disc from VHD to VDI (it’s illegal with licence of Internet Explorer virtual machines but all others VHD can  be converted to VDI without breaking a law).

Installation native Internet Explorer 8 under Debian GNU Linux (should work also with Ubuntu)

First step is installing and configuring VirtualBox-OSE on Debian. Next step is download VHD images (our example VHD is from Microsoft). Last step is convertion VHD2VDI. Continue reading →

Debian multimedia convert

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This post describes how to convert multimedia files in Debian. You will find there description of installation process of necessary software (via sources.list file). We will sign added repository. To convert software we will use mencoder, ffmpeg and ffmpeg2theora tools.

To convert *.ogv to *.avi file you can use (ogv2avi):

mencoder -idx input.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o output.avi

Offcourse there must be installed mencoder. To install it:

echo "deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
rm debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
aptitude update
aptitude install mencoder w32codecs

Some other converts (ffmpeg required):
*.flv to *.ogv (flv2ogv):

ffmpeg -i input.flv -acodec vorbis -ac 2 -vcodec libtheora -f ogg output.ogv

*.ogv to *.flv (ogv2flv):

ffmpeg -i in.ogg -b 384000 -s 640x480 -pass 1 -passlogfile log-file out.flv

*.ogv to *.mpg (ogv2mpg):

mencoder -idx input.ogv -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video -of mpeg -o output.mpg