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Join two .avi Videos with Mencoder/Mplayer
A lot of videos available from various sources are often encoded as .avi files close to 700MB in order to fit on a singleCD-R. This works out just great, but sometimes vids are split into two 700MB...
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Disable Recent Documents in Gnome 2.22.3
So even Windows lets you disable the Recent Documents feature, but for some reason Gnome really wants to remember what files you’ve been messing with. Personally I never use this menu item (usually...
View ArticleUseful find Commands
Recursive, multi-file find and replace with grep and xargs for performance: Source: http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/search-and-replace-in-all-files-within-a-directory-recursively.html grep -rl...
View ArticleAtheros Wireless in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Did a fresh install + updates of Kubuntu 8.10 on a customer’s laptop and had no wireless even though it’s an Atheros chipset. UPDATE: I recently tried this method on a similar Acer laptop with Ubuntu...
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Fix slow connections to Ubuntu SSH servers
As of Ubuntu 8.10 and older, connections to SSH servers with default configs can be annoyingly slow. This is because the OpenSSH daemon uses DNS to run a reverse lookup on the client to be sure that...
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Sometimes Ghost is truly the best tool
Lately I’ve been loving Clonezilla for rolling out refurbed Dell workstations. It’s been really cool, boot from USB “liveCD”, clone disk to disk directly over gigabit ethernet, reboot, repeat. But...
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Enable Gnome Video Thumbnails in Arch Linux
Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file. But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer...
View ArticleGet latest git tag on master branch with bash
git describe origin/master Warning: If there are multiple tags (local or remote) for the HEAD of origin/master you will get one tag from this command, not a list. I recommend using the –match parameter...
View ArticleGet a Chuck Norris joke with bash
curl -s http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random/ | python -c 'import sys, json; print "\n\n"+json.load(sys.stdin)["value"]["joke"]+"\n\n"'
View ArticleMultiple network bonds in Debian 9 Stretch
If you try to configure more than one network bond in Debian 9 Stretch you will get errors when trying to bring up the second bond – this is due to the fact that only one bond is configured by default....
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