If you are command line centric guy like me and you are on Ubuntu this post is for you.Getting starting with Amazon was a pain for me although once you understand the basics it is relativly easy. BTW: there are of course also other cloud systems like Rackspace or Azure. If you want the official … Continue reading »
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Logitech USB Headset volume is low [Ubuntu] – Fixing this with a script
There is a nasty bug in Ubuntu – even in 10.* and 11.*! But there is a simple fix via alsamixer. The problem is that the volume is always near 0 when when plugging in the device again. So this mini post is how to find out the command to increase the volume which you … Continue reading »
recordmydesktop – audio not in sync
Nice application! Normally one could use the GUI (gtk-recordMyDesktop) but I had a small problem: audio and video was not in sync. I worked around via specifying my headset on the command line tool directly via -device plughw:0,0 Thats it! recordmydesktop –width 800 –height 640 –v_quality 20 –s_quality 10 –delay 3 –fps 10 –overwrite –device … Continue reading »
Quicktip: Scroll Within top
There are two solutions to scroll within the linux command top (shows memory+cpu consumption of all processes): Either install htop (sudo apt-get install htop) Or do top -n 1 -b
Quicktip: Upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10
I simply did (Go to the full upgrade instructions for more information.) sudo do-release-upgrade and clicked “ok” two times. That was all! Within ~40-60 minutes (while I did something in parallel) it reinstalled a lot of packages, the kernel, … Additional Info: Jdk 5 is not longer supported from sun and because of this it is … Continue reading »
Ubuntu 9.10 finally released
Get It or Upgrade! Or see all Features / Features for 9.10 !
Xml to Xsd-Schema (Xml2Xsd)
wget http://jing-trang.googlecode.com/files/trang-20090818.zip unzip trang-20090818.zip cd trang-20090818/ wget -O test.xml “http://www.metapartei.de/polls/show/10.xml” java -jar trang.jar test.xml test.xsd cat test.xsd
Annoying command “ssh -t USER,PROJECT@shell.sourceforge.net create”
I don’t know why (maybe performance issues?) but since some months sourceforge forces one to create a new shell every time you want to access it, which takes up to 2 minutes. This is really annoying. Let me explain this in more detail. If I try to log in: ssh USER”at”shell.sourceforge.net normally one could directly … Continue reading »
Is it Windows 7 or Kde4?
Today I discovered an old but funny video at zdnet. Where they show Kde4 to the people on the street and say: “This is the new Windows 7 …”
Lasst uns unseren Kindern Linux beibringen, anstatt sie von Microsoft-Produkten abhängig zu machen
Die Grünen werden von vielen als die Ökopartei belächelt oder sogar beschimpft. Doch mich überzeugen viele Ihrer Handlungen und Meinungen. (Nicht so 100% allerdings die Kandidaten, aber man wählt ja keine Personen sondern eine Partei, oder? ) Ein Artikel bei Heise.de fand ich wieder einmal recht erhellend. Auch die Idee der Kulturflatrate finde ich gut, … Continue reading »
