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:
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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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:
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 »
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 »
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 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
This howto describe installation process of SVNManager od Debian, should also work on Ubuntu. Howto based on http://redimp.de/(…)SVNManager.html.
First step is installation of apache2 and php5, it won’t be describe here.
Next step is installation of necessary packages
aptitude install php-pear libapache2-svn subversion pear install -f -o VersionControl_SVN
To install additional codecs, libraries, fonts, drivers, etc. on your wine installation download winetricks and run this wonderfull software.
Installation:
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks chmod a+x winetricks sudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/winetricks
To install the newest package from experimental distr. you shoud take the following steps.
Installing the newest imagemagick: Continue reading »
