tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212485142012-02-05T21:32:15.123+04:00That's my OWN Blog I use for OWN purposes (but maybe it helps others)<br> All info here based on my OWN experience for UNIX based systems.DimiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882647414131967199noreply@blogger.comBlogger891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21248514.post-84964085939313614832011-12-28T12:05:00.004+04:002011-12-28T12:17:26.614+04:00

Quick news. Just have a note. My first PowerShell Magazine article is HERE. My special thanks for the support to @ShayLevy and Douglas Finke. The “PowerShell Magazine” was started with a thought of serving exclusive PowerShell content free of cost to the readers. This magazine is a monthly magazine and is available as an online edition and as downloadable PDF (and ePub/Mobi formats in future).

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I'm a big fan of link shortening. Everywhere I want to share any interesting link with others I use short links. Other side I hate when anyone send me too long links. There are many link shortening services exist. YouTube® for example use own shortening link service. For other resources I use only Google® service for this. There are plugins for browsers to do that. 'Firefox' has plugin for it, '

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If you have the public Mac computer and many people use it the best practice make an user account with user permissions and grant it to public users. By default, the main user on Mac OS has the administrative permissions. If you have an empty password for it, this user can destroy system data and bring your computer to `unbootable` state. The Mac OS 10.7 Lion has same security problems as 10.6

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For 'Console geeks' as me there is a handy way to download any files from Internet by any CLI util. Linux has 'wget' pre installed. On Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7 there is no pre installed utils like above. And if you have the guest computer, setup there anything is not a good idea. Lucky in Mac OS there is a 'curl' installed. So this short tip will show you how to do it on Mac OS. The command is: $ curl

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My last visit to computer store was for USB backup hard drive. There are many models and sizes there. Some of them have USB3.0/2.0 interface. But actually I don't understand why need to make the USB3.0 interface with slow and small 2,5'' SATA drive. I believe it is a marketing lead. My choice was SAMSUNG G2 Portable Cobalt-Black 640Gb External Hard Drive (model: HX-MU064DC/GB2) In this article

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Have you ever had an idea to upload your video to iPhone/iPod Touch from your system in native iPhone/iPod Touch format? If yes, this article is for you. In Mac OS SL system there is a QuickTime X player which can convert video to some formats. Just load it and Save as iPhone/iPod format or even AppleTV, or share it with iTunes and YouTube. But there is a problem - the QuickTime X player should

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The New 2011 Year start and hope it brings happiness, emergency free and prosperity time. Thanks to everyone who was with me and with this site last year. We should look forward and hope for better time in the world. At begin of this 2011 year Apple introduced the Apple Store for Mac OS (MAS). Hope this systemize the mess with program installation routine in Mac OS world. But sure we will look

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This article is actual useful for 'Bloggers'. Some times you may wish to get the screen shot of your login screen for your Mac. You can do it by photo camera with weak quality ;) or use the software method. On systems below 10.5 you could write a script with screen shot delay procedure, run it, and do Log Out. Then your script get the screen shot of your login screen and write it on your disk.

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Sometimes there is a task to remove all EXIF data from JPEG photos you did by your photo camera. This could be useful if you're going to publish them in the net. As many knows there are professional software solutions for that. It could be Adobe® Lightroom or something else. Sure, professional solutions always costs money. Now I'm going to explain the way by which you can do the same action for

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I have an idea to start publish the little programming code for Mac OS which could be useful in real life. There is no necessary to be a programmer to replicate it, just copy and paste the code. It maybe not interesting for everyone, but maybe for some experienced users. The first code I'd like to present is 3Dlock. This funny 3D effect is well known in the internet, but could be useful in the

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Recently I have noted in my Safari 5 the Safari Extensions Gallery option in 'File' menu of program. Yeah, The official Extensions Gallery was opened, but I didn't note it in spite of I follow Apple news in the net. Probably this happened because I was in vacation. When you chose this option you come to official site and can chose many Extensions which improve your Safari. If I compare Safari

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Hey, I'm back. Going to continue by blog writing and sorry my long absence. I had a long vacation due to extremal situation in the country, hard load and real vacation I had in this period of time. The begin of August was a real catastrophe for the country. Fires, high temperature 105F (+40C), CO gas. I have never seen such in my life before. Is it repetition for end of times in 2012? We'll see.

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Once upon a time I had an idea to get screen shots I did on iPod Touch to Mac OS computer. The iTunes don't give any opportunity to do this - import iPod Touch saved photos from Photo Albums. I had to spend my time to dig about it in the Internet and found with some difficulties the legal way to do this. Here I show how to do it by Mac OS 10.6.3 Snow Leopard. This action is easy to do by

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Does your Apple notebook hard drive (HDD) ever sound like little mice are playing table tennis inside of it? Yeah my is! Tell the truth this problem actually occurs on all operating systems based on Unix/Linux, including the Mac OS. What I've found: "This “clicking” is part of a 'power management system' that functions to save energy and reduce temperatures. For every 'click' what’s happening is

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This theme is not new for Mac OS staff. Have a look on such situation - you have a public Mac with two or more hard drive volumes on it and you wanna reserve one of them for technical purposes. That means you want to rename one hard drive volume to BackUP and use it for backups only. The problem is that if you do this it will be visible for any user on this Mac and sure they definitely will write

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I can't publish posts here as frequent as I like that is why I'm in deep respect to who do this. Back to sharing theme ;) Any system administrator knows that share files on local computer is a bad idea for security reasons. To transfer files better use external file servers which usually better secured. But if you have small home computer network without file servers and DNS server you have to

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This is my first post in this year. Sometimes the Mac computers located in public places. And many people coming there and do their job. But some of them may access administrator password, create own accounts, drop large files on desktop etc. Sure, the computer owner don't like it and ask trusted person to change administrator password and temporary disable such account. You ca ask - Why not

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As I wrote before I publish tips here based on my experience and tasks I have in real life. Recently I had a problem to write large file (~8Gb) onto small (~7Gb) flash stick ;) So I had to split the file onto two parts and join it later. As a console UNIX geek I chose the UNIX way on my Mac OS system.The `split' command will help with it. If you need split the file do in console:$ split -b 7168m

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The method I explain only for personal use and not for distribution. Everyone know that DVD disks are not reliable media and there is a big chance to get the problem with drive laser or disk. So, it is a very good idea to protect the data on Mac OS installation disk. The structure there little complicated. There are some partitions on it I want to save too. If you try do it by `Disk Utility'

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Here is a short tip how to create the Image for privacy data protection from CLI. Let's make the `sparse' to save the space on hard disk. It is `growable' one.$ hdiutil create -type SPARSE -size 1g -fs HFS+ \ -encryption -volname SecretPlace growableTo1g This command create the encrypted `sparse' image in the home directory with "SecretPlace" name. The limit of this image 1Gb.

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To make my work in Mac OS console more friendly I use shortcuts to call usable command. Because of `.bashrc' file is not usable in Mac OS, the `aliases' should be inside `.profile' file within user folder. Here is the example my own:alias h='history -c'alias df='df -h'alias md='mkdir -p'alias rd='rmdir'alias mv='mv -i'alias slink='ln -s'alias sed='sed -E'alias l='ls -1'alias la='ls -lhAF'alias ll

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The `locate' command disabled in Mac OS by security reasons. That is a way how enable it for MacOS 10.5.8: $ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedbThe database will be created by this. Sure, you need to have the administrator password.Update: Within Snow Leopard version MacOS 10.6.2 such command is usable:$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

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I think everyone know about and this info is easy find in the Internet, but it is for fast recall. This command works only with Intel based Macs (EFI). I'm not responsible for any damage by this trick.Wanna watch EFI settings in XML form use:$ nvram -xpSetup boot in verbose mode by command in terminal:$ sudo nvram boot-args="-v"Back to standard boot:$ sudo nvram boot-args=""This tip by way of @

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I have pdf files I want to read somewhere on the trip by iPod Touch. How transfer it from computer? I've found free solution from Apple Store. This free program calls `FileAid'. It is not a state of art sure, but it works and you're able to transfer files by WiFi connection. You have to connect iPod Touch and computer to common network (local) and be able to transfer files by FTP protocol. The

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Yesterday I've found interesting tip about how to improve the blogger page. If you prefer to change the width of your Blog read HERE. Unfortunately it works if your template without pictures as graphic design. In this case there is not easy way. You need to change pictures also. All computer users own large screens now, and why Blogger templates are still narrow? That is a question. The other

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Recently I had an idea to integrate the Mac OS work stations with Linux server based on openSuSE 11.1The problem is that I don't use SMB at my network and FTP working not stable for MacOS especially if necessary to transfer many small files simultaneously. So I start looking native AFP protocol support. `Netatalk' program allow do it on Linux box. I won't describe how to setup it, because enough

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I had such idea to publish animated gif as avatar on registration page. The problem was that I had 60x104 size as original, but page owner demand 100x100 pixels maximum. I've found that many picture editing software can't process with animated gif. In addition I'm a console geek, and prefer CLI solution. I dug the Internet and found perfect program `ungifsicle'. This program name itself is `

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I successfully back from my vacation trip and online again. I plan to start post here my Mac hints and sure don't forget about Linux.For Mac Book  users and travelers I would recommend to read this tipHave a good day,

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Finally the most famous game developer - id Software issued their Linux and Mac version of revolutionary Quake Live game. Why it is revolutionary? Cause you can use web browser to play 3D games. My special thanks to id Software for this great job.It's a pity that id Software don't plan to issue Linux ports of their future games cause they really don't know how many people in the world use Linux.I

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For CLI freaks like me I've found one very interesting shell solution from Stefan Grothkop. This magic shell allow to use the`Google search engine' by CLI interface right in your browser. It calls `goosh'.For `Firefox' users like me there is a command `addengine' to add goosh to firefox search box. The command list is by `h'. The history is avalable too. Cheers.

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You may want to force the file system check on your Linux hard drive. File system check routine usually scheduled and it is not recommended to change it. But if the power failure occurs and you want to be sure that everything is ok with the file system, you may do such trick. Give such command under `root':# touch /forcefsck && rebootIt will create the empty file `forcefsck' and reboot your

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Recently I explore the twitter - such nice short messages blog, seems very popular last time cause of mobile device support. Unfortunately, the Linux support is not strong: the Mozilla Firefox plugin - TwitterFox or Tircd I use with IRC client. Thanks for explanation and my respect to yaloki. Twitter service is working by http protocol, so easy to post messages there via `curl'. Let's write some

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exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a "proprietary file system suited especially for flash drives, introduced by Microsoft for embedded devices in Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and in their desktop operating system, starting with Windows Vista Service Pack 1" To get it work not only for Vista you can download and upgrade your Windows XP with official update.Have a note If you have flash disk

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I had no plans to give here any tips for Windows OS, but it's changing fast last years and I'm going to do it here. To block any Virus activity on your Windows XP system it is recommended for user don't use Administrator account and work as `User' in `Users' group. I work like this many years and my Windows system wasn't be reinstalled yet. But if you need change permissions for file or folder,

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There is a task to watermark your logo or WEB link in video file. The easiest way is to use `ffmpeg' utility for it while transcode the file. Just I show how to do it with WEB link creation. First of all we have to create the transparent picture with burned link on it. Let's take `convert' utility for it. The size of our picture should be the same as video is:convert -size 480x360 -background

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There is a nice Linux program for automatic calendar creation - pcal. Here I'll give an example of Russian calendar creation. The program will create the Russian fonts in KOI8-RU code page (post script file format) for current month. The command is: pcal -E -P a4 -F 1 -Z -a ru -n Arial/10 -m -o cal2009.psYou can convert post script file by ps2pdf util like this:ps2pdf cal2009.ps*Note: If we want

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I hold openSuSE self compiled packages HERE To add repository into `zypper' installer for 11.1 version use this LINK As example for `zypper':# zypper ar -r http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/\ home:/DimiG/openSUSE_11.1/home:DimiG.repo && zypper ref Just copy it and paste in `konsole' as root. Any questions are Welcome!

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There is a good idea to use the USB flash drive under virtual machine and don't boot it on real hardware when testing. I did try to find solution but have found only QEMU. The VMware doesn't have any possibility to boot by USB now - only floppy. So, back to QEMU. I use it on Linux openSuSE11.0 To boot USB flash drive I use such command under root: # qemu -hda /dev/sdb -boot c -usb -usbdevice

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There are three main ways to update BIOS on ASUS EeePC: Use biosupdate.pl script under Xandros OS (Add/Remove software using it too) Use EZ-Flash (Alt-F2 under BIOS itself) Use 'afudos' under DOS by bootable USB flash disk (drive) The first method is risky. Do any BIOS updates under running operating system is dangerous. And you can't save the old BIOS into file before update. The second method

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Recently I've tried to setup the Google Earth program on EeePC900 (with Xandros as OS). It is possible to download it from here. But If you try do it and run it there you will get very 'slow run'. This tweak will help you override this problem. And now it works quite good. Happy using.

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Some 'managers' when scan papers do it into JPG format. I don't know why they do it, perhaps they don't know about Adobe® company and their PDF format, or perhaps they think they can't do it directly by scanning software. But they do. Sometimes I get such scanned papers by e-mail with big problem to print such files cause it is a graphic file not a document. You need to have installed the good

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As a Linux geek I did upgrade my openSuSE version 10.2 to 11.0 It has KDE4.0 on board, but my first impression was negative. Not because I scare something new, simple it looks raw and not all software support this KDE version. The situation very similar to Vista and other stuff. We'll see what will happen with KDE4.1 So, I had to reinstall all stuff with old KDE3.5 and It looks stable now.

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So finally I'm back from vacation and now I'm able to continue my 'Blog'. I did update of my iPod Touch (1st generation) to 2.1 firmware and real happy by this. 100 free programs now in AppStore plus applications from Cydia. JailBreak gives full access to iPod system from Linux host and full power by this. Unfortunately JailBreak works only with first generation of iPod Touch. 2G is not supported

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Pardon my long absence, cause I've got possibility to work with brand modern device like ASUS EeePC 900 based on Linux Xandros. It takes time to study, so I'll hold in touch how it comes. SeeYa.

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Just I wanna write some thoughts about Apple® here. Steve, many people respect you as me, and you did the great thing in you life cause you gave personal computer for everyone. My additional respect to Steve Wozniak. He looks like George Lucas in IT industry. You're always on the first edge of technology. The sales policy otherwise looks strange for everyone. That is why, the Apple® looks like

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This theme is very interesting now in the Internet cause iPod touch is popular now and for people who using Linux very important to know how to be without Windows on iPod touch. Here I'll post some info how to use Linux for it.But before, some info: "Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion from one lossy codec to another.Transrating is a process similar to trancoding in which

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The modern computers doesn't have any floppy drive on board. I know, I know, now it is outdated. And better use USB flash disk. My computer doesn't have any floppies too, but up to now floppy disks is a cheap way for Office documents to travel from one computer to another. Recently I had such task - write MS '.doc' file onto floppy disk. It was intended for old computer without any USB port ;-)

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So, the new article I write in new 2008 year. The openSuSE versions prior 10.3 has annoying animated penguin GRUB Splash Screen. They are jumping and it looks like Xmas stuff. In 10.3 version It was disabled by default. So, if you want enable it in 10.3 version or disable in 10.2 such procedure may exist. I won't describe here how to do it step by step - only common things. Well, become a root

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In spite of Xmas time I have to work. Just start testing of openSuSE10.3 version. After installation I've noted that I lost graphic boot screen. So here how to cure it: First check out /boot/grub/menu.lst file. You should have there vga=0x317 parameter. If you missed this add it there. Don't ask how ;) Second give such command via terminal: # mkinitrd -s 1024x768 After reboot computer and wow,

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Many people asking: "How to get meta data from video file with technical information about video format on Linux?" Actually, If you surf Internet you won't find any direct answer. I've spent many hours to find such simple solution.Mediainfo allow you to do it. I suggest to use console program, cause it is more efficient, fast and no bugs.Cheers ;-)

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Recently I had such task - mix 6 channels audio track with MPEG2 video. Sure, it is possible do with expensive video editing systems on Windows and MAC, but as a simple and free alternative It is possible do with Linux ;-) The problem was that synchronization offset between audio and video equal 8 sec. The audio stream started before video. So I need fix it. It's possible do via console ;-)

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Do you think to transcode 6 channels of DTS sound into AC3 format is too difficult and need expensive hardware units and professional studios? If you plan to do it for non professional use - the answer is NO. You need Linux for it ;-) Sure it was tested on openSuSE10.2 You should pass two steps: Decode DTS file to multichannel WAV Transcode multichannel WAV to AC3 For a DTS file with name

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I'm back from vacation and continue to write this blog. As I wrote before I publish things here only I checked myself on real system. Recently I had such task like convert 200 TIFF photos scanned by old fellow in JPG format :-( Do it by hands? Nooo... Lets ask computer ;-) Thanks god there is a Linux and ImageMagick program. This software includes mogrify which allows to scale and convert

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In todays mobile phones the 3GPP standard is widely in use for videos on the phone. But what is 3GPP? The video is encoded in H.263 and the audio in narrow-band AMR (adaptive multi-rate) audio codec. H.263 is a next of kin to MPEG4. The real difference for files in this format which is usable for cell phones in audio format. 3GPP use AMR mono, MPEG4 use MP3 audio in stereo. In addition 3GPP has

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Have a note regarding THIS article. Thanks to yaloki for this software and I'm always glad to help.Take care, Tnx

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As I wrote BELOW there is a good stuff to do it. It calls Tovid and works brilliant. As example of my own script I frequently use you can get it HERE. Tnx

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Small notes regarding G5. If you get Mac G5 keep attention to serial numbers. Check it by this LINKWe had a lot of problems by this and sure had such units. :-(

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Have you ever had problems with CD/DVD media backups? You want to be sure your job will stay safe on media? CD and DVD media keep their data only for a finite time (typically for many years). After that time, data loss develops slowly with read errors growing from the outer media region towards the inside. If so there is a good software applicable for Darwin/Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD and

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Here is a small script I wrote. It allows you to convert MP3 call signals into AMR Nokia format. Put MP3's into directory and run this script from there. Copy and paste this code into amrnokia.sh chmod 755 ./amrnokia.sh && ./amrnokia.sh Code itself: #!/bin/bash # Audio Bitrate 32 for Nokia # 64, 80, 128 is ok too # for MP3 in *.mp3; do if [[ -e $MP3 ]]; then   echo "Converting $MP3 into amr Nokia

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The interesting theme is a DVD authoring under Linux. HERE I've found some links to Linux software which can help in that. The information regarding my experience on SuSE Linux I'll post later.

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The most annoying thing in openSuSE10.2 is a screen saver problem. It works itself and won't to note your settings at all. No info in the Internet also. Maybe it depends on computer brand. But some laptops has a problem with it. Based on my experience if such situation happen I suggest to disable native KDE screen saver and disable 'kpowersave' program. 'xscreensaver' is running in background

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HERE the article describes how to do the right installation of Java for your system. Sun's Java used for some Java applications as Azureus for example. I suggest to use the last version if possible. Tnx.

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Fresh installation give you a problem with a fonts presentation. HERE you'll find the information how to adjust it and get good viewed desktop. Take care your eyes...P.S. "The subpixel hinting implementation in freetype2 might infringe Microsoft's ClearType patents, which is why it is disabled both upstream (by the freetype2 authors) and in the freetype2 RPM packages that ship with openSUSE."

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The first bug I’ve found just after my SuSE upgrade to openSuSE10.2 version was that my ASUS WL-130g PCMCIA (Cardbus) card lost connection due to the driver problem. The fresh installation doesn’t cure it. Have to give a note, this card perfectly worked in SuSE9.3 This card is based on Ralink's RT2500 chip. Luckily I’ve found how to compile the new driver. This good article describes it HERE. Now

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If you get such messages in your sshd: sshd[21381]: Invalid user guest from 203.251.250.132 sshd[21386]: Invalid user admin from 203.251.250.132 … That means someone try to hack your system. It must be a human or just a ‘bot’ (MS virus on computer somewhere in the internet). There is some remedy is not explained good in the Internet. First of all block all ssh incoming connections except yours

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Based on my own experience I suggest doing the fresh installation of openSuSE10.2 cause otherwise you will get ‘bugged’ system. The differences between SuSE10.1 and openSuSE10.2 are big. I don’t wanna give more precise explanation, because if you do fresh installation most of these bugs will disappear.konvenientSuSE application will help you with SuSE 10.2 setup. Download it for KDE and setup.

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If you have a problem with sound on Real Player under SuSE (sorry no information about in the Internet, I was very surprised) So, simple setup in Control center -> Sound System the sleep time for Sound System. It may help. Cheers...

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Sorry, this NOTE for myself. ;-) If U have a problems with KDM connection to virtual screen on SuSE by VNC, check the routing table first! Tnx.

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You have FLV (flash video) file and don't know how to convert it. These notes is for you ;-) First of all, you can play FLV on Linux by ffplay, Copyright (c) 2003 Fabrice Bellard or by VideoLAN Media Player If you want to convert use it as example: # ffmpeg -i myvideo.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 test.mpg Where all that trash is: -b bitrate: set the video bitrate in kbit/s (default =

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If you have a problem with your hard drive this perfect article is for you. Click HERE

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That was my recent trip to Netherlands

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Very useful thing if you're lazy enough is a 'FIX command'. I'm not going to explain what is it just edit the .bashrc file in your local directory. Add such line there: alias r='fc -s' So just after you login you can call last command in shell by: # r (some first letters) Enjoy

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How to synchronize your Linux computer clock with ntp server in the Internet? 1. Make the Script file like this and call it ntpsync as example: #!/bin/bash # clear case "$1" in go)   echo "Starting NTP synchronization..."   ntpdate ntp1.ptb.de && echo "OK ;)" || echo "failed :(" ;; *)   echo "Usage: ntpsync {go}"   exit 1 esac exit $RETVAL 2. Then give such command as root # ntpsync go3. Give

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Cause too few information in the Internet regarding the hardware compatibility with Linux SuSE I will post the information here about my hardware tested devices.The first will be USB to serial port converter. If U need connect to SuSE RS232 Serial interface device you can buy "ATEN USB to SERIAL (DB9) CONVERTER UC-232A" and be happy.The information about this device is HERE!That was checked on my

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Reset Firmware for Apple Macintosh Resetting your firmware will reset all firmware settings back to factory defaults. Things like the boot rom, power management, etc. are found in the firmware. To do this hold down the following buttons on your keyboard at boot up: cmd+opt+O+FOnce in open firmware type these commands: reset-nvram (hit return) reset-all (hit return once more, the system should

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Your MAC too noisy, well follow this: First, write a small script: #!/bin/tcsh -f osascript -e 'set volume 0' I named mine shutup.sh and saved it to /usr/local/bin/. Next, make it executable: $ sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/shutup.shAdd it as a logout hook using the defaults write command: $ sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /usr/local/bin/shutup.sh (note that the whole

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Here is a brief procedure for HD replacement in the Discreet RAID. (IRIX based system) 1. Become a root Don't ask how to do it ;) # sw_config will show you 'dead' disk 2. Do data copy on spare disk by: sw_heal -h adapter,disk -n adapter,disk (bad -> new) # sw_heal -h 3,4 -n 5,63. Replace the 'dead' disk onto the new one 4. Stop the Smoke file system by: # sw_stop # sw_unmount all5. Save RAID

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Here is an interesting article for SuSE Linux users:Mapping unsupported keys with xmodmap

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If U want to see the system messages in Linux console it is easy do. Use the following: 1. Open the console window; 2. Give such command as root or user: # tail -f -n 20 /var/log/messages It will show you last 20 lines in real time. Have a good time ;)

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"Plain Cache Sources A Plain Cache source is a directory containing RPM files. For YaST to recognize a directory as plain cache source, you must create a file (IS_PLAINcache) that contains the RPM header information of the available RPM packages. YaST needs the package data (name, version, dependencies, etc.) from the .rpm file in order to avoid reading the file over and over again. For large

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How to play mp3 in SuSE 10Take a look HERE

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How to burn a DVD-Video under Linux with console based applications you can find HERE and HERE

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All my hints based on my Own experience. If you have a problem with your Macintosh running MAC OSX - check your system hard disk first. Unfortunately the native software can't cure it and crash sometimes. So, best way is download it, install it on your computer, boot into single user mode by cmd-s (OS X only) , then run: # applejack auto When it finished do: # reboot Hope it helps. Sure

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Just today I've found such interesting link - how to burn CD/DVD on Linux. Click HERE

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The other day I need to start a friends Linux machine in single user mode so I could do a low level fsck. I didn't know how to do it and I thought I would share the information with you!At the boot prompt (Grub or Lilo) type: linux singleLinux is the name of the boot option defined in the boot loader and most of the time it is just 'linux' and 'single' is the command to force boot up in single

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Convert MP3 to OGG in Linux: "There has been occassion where I've needed to convert MP3 to OGG. I know, I know, I know, it's never a good idea to convert a lossy format to another lossy format, but sometimes it's unavoidable. I came up with the following command to do just what I needed. I had to include --downmix and -b 32 for what I was doing, but they're likely not required. This just tells

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This Blog dedicated to give people know more about me and my activities, my interests etc.And sure I'll post some tips and tricks for Linux, IRIX and MAC OSX operating systems cause they are all UNIX based systems.

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Here is my small photoAt Holland flower market

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Hi for everyone, Today I start blogging. Wish me the luck.

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