keyboard icon / gnome
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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 [...]
dd-wrt + antenna
Spent a day for enhancing modem coverage in our house. Applied this design (template 2). The result is disappointing. Most probably I’ve made mistake in drawing. Anyway, today is the day of negative experience. Another unfortunate finding is that: dd-wrt v24-sp2 system do not support MMC modification, in other words, external file storage, for the cards [...]
openwrt > dd-wrt
I decided to replace openwrt with dd-wrt on my Linksys WRT54GS v1.1 Upload bin file to the router: cat dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_std-nokaid-usb.bin | ssh root@192.168.1.1 ‘cat – > dd-wrt.bin’ login to router and write new system (the router will reboot automatically): mtd -r write dd-wrt.bin linux I didn’t clear nvram settings as was recommended, for I didn’t [...]
mac wireless keyboard
It is great. Just exactly what I always wanted. But sometimes it just stop working. Which is needlessly to say makes me very unhappy. Most of the solutions, quite outdated, available on the web refer to command line hcitool and hidd commands. It doesn’t work for me anymore, so I am left with GUI built-in [...]
продолжаем разговор
После приличного перерыва, возобновляем писанину. За весну-лето этого года мною было написано кое-что, но, перемудрил с инсталляцией и теперь лень ковыряться в нескольких базах данных, дабы собрать все в единое целое. Не бог весть какая потеря на самом деле. Но впредь зарекся оставлять копии инсталляций без подробных комментариев для дальнейшей работы: как водится, через неделю [...]
handling white space in file names
The only way to handle spaces in file names is the application of ‘find’ program: find . -type f|grep .ext$ |while read file do /do/something/to “$file” done
add vi mode in ipython
add to ~/.inputrc: set editing-mode vi set keymap vi-insert