usually iphones/smartphones take pictures with 2-3-4-5MByte which can fill your harddisk/webserver pretty fast. It is wiser to shrink them down before upload. While under Windows i would recommend you http://www.irfanview.com/ Under Linux you can do that with ease 😀 [cc […]
[cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] echo “deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update && apt-get install rar rar RAR 4.00 beta 3 Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Alexander Roshal 17 Dec 2010 Shareware version Type RAR -? for help Usage: rar […]
a simple, sleak, efficient Gnome2 based desktop system, adding printers worked like a charm 🙂 keep up the good work. [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] MARCO(1) General Commands Manual MARCO(1) NAME Marco – The MATE Window Manager SYNOPSIS marco [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION […]
i am impressed. i did not know there is such a cool chart 😀
If you insert an copy-protected DVD into Linux Debian, it won’t play. if you run: [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] dmesg [ 23.698945] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 23.698948] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 23.698950] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 23.698955] […]
installing ffmpeg on debian is rather tricky (you will need to compile from source). under CentOS7 it is easy yum install ffmpeg and you can substitute avconv command with ffmpeg and the script just works the same. thanks to all […]
You can not include links to pics – you will have to embed the Base64-encoded-version of your pic in the /etc/mumble-server.ini 1. open a picture in GIMP e.g. 2. shrink it down to like 100-300px in width. 3. ramp up […]
It’s as simple as cool as linux… the “player” software VLC is also a recorder or a streaming-station 😀 you can try to automate this process: This one-liner worked for me, with audio and video: [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] cvlc […]
tested on: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 (2016-01-02) i686 GNU/Linux update: 2019-01: also tested on hostnamectl # Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core) # CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7 # Architecture: x86-64 if using one core is enough: # […]
tested and works on: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 (2016-01-02) i686 GNU/Linux it is a little confusing… but you can set the default wired or wireless connection profile that the machine should chose like that: 1. you start […]
for easy network management under gnome apt-get update; apt-get install network-manager-gnome; # install the network manager tool # optional: apt-get install gnome-nettool; # install network debugging tool network-manager-gnome nice tool to manage your weird wired and wireless networks if it […]
sudo apt-get install calibre To actually convert the EPUB file you can use the following command: ebook-convert file.epub file.pdf (For details, check this other answer)
gnome-maps is a nice openstreetmap based application under gnome3. tested under Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) i686 GNU/Linux https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Maps
stuff: GNU Linux -> How to Install TrueCrypt / VeraCrypt / ZuluCrypt Veracrypt command line usage: manpage: veracrypt.man.txt # start interactive command line wizard veracrypt -t -c # to create a new encrypted volume or usb stick Volume type: 1) […]
update: 2018.04 PaleMoon archive Server HACKED! “A malicious party gained access to the at the time Windows-based archive server” (src) oh gosh! ? GO USE CENTOS DEBIAN AND LATEST KERNEL NOW! “malware dropper tracked by ESET as Win32/ClipBanker.DY” (steals bitcoins) […]
… some aptitude command deinstalled a bunch of programs so i could not unzip anything under gnome desktop. (love it… sleak fast beautiful… maybe 50MByte of RAM usage) sudo bash; # become root apt-get update; # update package def apt-get […]
2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]
Source & Creditz: https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops if you are running Debian Linux on a Laptop with only 1GB of RAM and want to use things as Virtualization… lightweight is important. There are Linux-Desktops out there consuming less than Windows 98!
tested under: Linux laptop 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1 (2015-05-24) i686 GNU/Linux [cc lang=”c” escaped=”true” width=”600″] vim /etc/apt/sources.list; # open software package repository list # and add at the end deb http://apt.jenslody.de/stable jessie main deb-src http://apt.jenslody.de/stable jessie main apt-get update; […]
get a terminal-bash-shell… [cc lang=”c” escaped=”true” width=”600″] apt-get install libgtk-3-dev; # install gnome3 header files mkdir -p /projects/c/guigtk+; # create project directory cd /projects/c/guigtk+; # enter project directory vim gnome3gui.c; # create new file [/cc] # fill it with that […]
Sware Iron runs well on: Linux DebianGiada 4.0.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.8-1 (2015-07-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux but on a Virtual Machine running: Linux debian7 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux i get: /usr/share/iron/iron: symbol lookup error: /usr/share/iron/iron: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset […]
find your usb stick lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 107.2G 0 part / └─sda5 8:5 0 4.6G 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 1 29.1G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 […]
gui-way: DO NOT USE ANY OTHER HARDDISK FORMAT THAN THE DEFAULT QCOW2!!! with VirtualBox it’s the same. THEORETICALLY they support Micro$oft’$ HYPER_V_DISK_IMAGE.VHD BUT PRACTICALLY THINGS WILL FALL APART QUICKLY! (broken/corrupted disk image) So just stick to the defaults and you […]
find out where your dvd/cd drive is mounted then: cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info; CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: sr0 drive speed: 24 drive # of slots: 1 Can close tray: 1 Can open tray: 1 Can lock tray: 1 […]
lsb_release -a; # tested with Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) # previously this was tested with cat /etc/os-release |grep PRETTY PRETTY_NAME=”Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)” why? duplicate files are a waste of disk space. every system experiences catastrophic failures, slow downs […]
who/what to trust in 2022? it’s hard… “A February 2020 research report published by the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin tested six browsers and deemed Brave to be the most private of them, in terms […]
Safari and Firefox both run the WebKit HTML-rendering engine – forked from KDE-KONQUEROR! Konqueror is the original WebKit browser. Long before Apple released Safari, there was Konqueror and the KHTML rendering engine. Apple liked what they saw in KHTML and […]
once more The Penguin comes to aid the Windows (how nice of tux). General approach: # become root su – root # phase1) testing: list all files that match find /search/this/folder -iname “for*this*file*txt” -type f|less # phase2) delete: all the […]