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In open office, there is annoying thing with printing documents: it always print to the default paper tray. The solution was easy: change ‘printer language type’ from ‘PDF’ to ‘Postscript (level from driver)’ – this setting can be found here: File->Printer settings->Properties->Device tab->Printer language type. Now, I can select what paper tray printer will take [...]
Best Practical: Barcelona RT seminar
There were just above 15 of attendants in small class with some supply of coffee, snacks and water during the classes. As far as I remember, most folks were from Spain (obviously), German and Norway (sorry, if I am totally wrong). I was definitely the most hopeless attendee among them. Seminar had been conducted by Kevin Falcon, smart, [...]
xfce / keyboard layout switch
I am fed up with new fancy unity environment – the responsiveness of the windows simply deteriorated during the session on my Vaio VPCY11S1E laptop. The unity’s ‘external’ design is promising, but the implementation, imho, is not for long hours workers. 2D alternative lacks basic customization tools (you can’t, for example, change the size of the [...]
Ubuntu 11.10 / Vaio Y series / VPCY11S1E
Working 3rd day with the new distro. Finding so far: backlight / screen brightness is not working. Solution remains the same, as with previous Ubuntu distros (here). USB ports are dead on weak up from suspend. Virtualbox running WinXP guest machine drops current session after weak up from suspend. The display GUI manager works OK except one [...]
1st day of playing with Synology DS211j. Wow. I did’n realize that NAS could be so hackable. I am pretty sure that all frustration are simply awaiting me in the future, but at the same time, most of my new purchase defeat my expectations at much quicker pace. I put below some of my first impressions (it [...]
How to … LVM (Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install lvm2 dmsetup mdadm reiserfsprogs xfsprogs pvcreate (create physical volume) pvdisplay (check what has been done) vgcreate group_name /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb2 vgdisplay lvcreate –name lv_name –size 1000T group_name mkfs.ext4 /dev/group_name/lv_name mount /dev/group_name/lv_name /mnt/z vgchange -a y group_name #to activate volume group vgextend group_name /dev/sdc1 http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/commontask.html
keyboard icon / gnome
Taken from here: in gconf-editor, check /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/indicator/showFlags install set of flags using sudo apt-get install famfamfam-flag-png make a softlink: ln -s /usr/share/flags/countries/16×11 ~/.icons/flags In addition I had to add ‘Indicator Applet’ to the panel in order to avoid error on start.
ubuntu 11.04 / laptop sony vaio vpcy11S1E: wireless
Wireless doesn’t work from the start. Here is the solution, which is that: gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi options acer-wmi wireless=1 sudo modprobe acer-wmi The control buttons for brightness of the display [Fn - F5, F6] do not work. The solution remains the same (i’ve lost the source, from where I did steal this): two files shall [...]
rip dvd 2 matroska (ii)
This continues my previous experience disclosed earlier over here. I start here at the point, where I extract one temp vob file out of standard DVD VIDEO_TS folder content: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dvd-device ~/temp/my_moovie/ \ -dumpfile ~/temp/dvd_dump.vob I take ‘manual’ approach here, except final muxing with “MKV file creator” utility. Before I say goodbuy to the [...]
dv 2 h.264
First, I tried to encode DV files by mplayer / mencoder / faac and x264, inspired by this article . I didn’t get much further than successfully encode audio, because with video I failed to get good video after few attempts. So I switched to ffmpeg which seems much more easier to operate, since it works [...]