Monday, August 2, 2010

Debian IRC logs

Hi All,

I dont know how many of you folks login into the #debian channel thro IRC.

But I also do and can be found under the name ananthgs.

What if there is no internet or power available - that makes you to be away from the system for long???

No need to worry. This post explains how to get the log from this channel.

Hit your browser to this link - link

Thats it.. You can just not get the logs of the hours missed - but also the log of each day.

Take care,
Ananth S Gouri

kstreamripper

Hi All,

kstreamripper is a UI for the streamripper command utility.

You can install this package from synaptic.

How to use:

1. Add a stream .
2. Give the stream a name.
3. Give the url and an optional description.

Then click on the "Rip stream" button.

To stop ripping - click on "stop rip" button. 

Thats it...

Take care and happy radio/stream ripping ;)
Ananth S Gouri

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Safe umount

Hi All,

Most of us dont do a safe un-mount or rather a umount.

And most of us use XP - the door OS ;) 

This above leads to a peculiar problem for the pen drive - when its mounted in Linux - and also if the partition is of NTFS type only.

We will not be able to mount the ntfs partitions during this time.

There is a package called ntfsprogs using which we can solve this issue using the below command:

ntfsfix /dev/mount_point

This above command resets the ntfs journal file.

[Try this at your own risk.]

Take care,
Ananth S Gouri

mozplugger

Hi All,

mozplugger is a tool for Firefox and related browsers - which allows the browser to embed different types of multimedia objects in it.

It uses external specific tools for the same. For example if we wanted to view pdf thro the browser, we can make use of mozplugger and xpdf.

Mail me for more inputs.

Take care,
Ananth S Gouri

alacarte

Hi All,

Ever thought how to edit your menu items in Linux???

Install the alacarte package which does the job for you.

You have to practically experiment to know the usage of alacarte.

Take care,
Ananth S Gouri

Google Linux

Hi All,

You can google just for Linux using the Google Linux search.

Here you find the link -  Google Linux

Enjoy Googling,
Ananth S Gouri

Audio with audacious

Hi All,

Audacious is a multi codec player. Install it using synaptic.

It also supports different plugins. Install the audacious-plugins package.

Enjoy,
Ananth S Gouri