Vim IDE and PHP / Symfony / Web develompment

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. read more

Mount TrueCrypt drive on boot time under Debian / Ubuntu

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)

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

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

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. read more

Convert MS VirtualPC machine to VirtualBox

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. read more

Debian multimedia convert

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):

Offcourse there must be installed mencoder. To install it:

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

*.ogv to *.flv (ogv2flv):

*.ogv to *.mpg (ogv2mpg):

SVNManager on Debian

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

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Wine fonts / codecs / libs / etc.

To install additional codecs, libraries, fonts, drivers, etc. on your wine installation download winetricks and run this wonderfull software.

Installation:

QTlen on Debian / Ubuntu

QTlen is linux client of Tlen.pl network. Unlike other program this type for linux, QTlen is developing on QT library.

To install QTlen you must take the following steps:

At first you must install nescessery packages:

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