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    • Format dvd+rw before writing data

    Writing a DWD+RW under Linux should be simple, something like: $ wodim speed=2 dev=/dev/sr0 -v -data ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-i386.iso However, in my case it f...
    August 13, 2017

    python Selenium in Ubuntu 16.04

    Selenium is a web browser automation software. In Ubuntu 16.04 it doesn't work out of the box, and external components should be installed. In this post I no...
    December 22, 2016

    vi editing mode set global

    The Linux command line and other software based on readline library support vi editing mode. After I worked on a new system with the default settings for a w...
    October 18, 2016

    fast throw-away git repository

    Based on the article How to Run Your Own Git Server, I've constructed a small list for fast git setup for temporary projects. Server: $ mkdir -p /the/serve...
    August 22, 2016

    how to start vmware

    By me, vmware doesn't start without twicks. A normal rum produces something like: process 3954: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6ad0690 user data 0xb789...
    March 17, 2014

    from an audiodisk to a mp3 player

    My sequence to grab audiobooks from a cd to hear later on a mp3 player. Grab as mp3: abcde -o mp3 The program makes the job perfectly. But the mp3 player (S...
    August 17, 2013

    custom tex in rpm/apt distributions

    I prefer to use TeX from TeXlive distribution, not the default TeX bundled with an operating system. The problem is that rpm and apt tools check dependencies...
    January 06, 2012

    control alt shift vmware

    Sometimes vmware makes something very wrong, and X server do not understand the keys CTRL, ALT, SHIFT and similar anymore. Solution: "setxkbmap" without any ...
    July 28, 2011

    solved: vmware does not work anymore

    After some system update, vmware stopped working. It wrote some information which modules are loaded, and then silently exited. In a log file "ui-NNNN.log", ...
    April 04, 2011

    eSATA hot swap in Linux

    I hoped that eSATA interface allows to attach and detach HDDs to Linux on the fly, and the system would notice the changes automatically. The reality was quo...
    December 29, 2010

    sharing files from linux to windows

    Yes, one installs and configures Samba. All I need is to access a big folder in the read-only mode. The quick and dirty solution is: In smb.conf: security ...
    April 27, 2009

    wrong but fast fix

    After a small system upgrade an application started to crash with the message: *** glibc detected *** sylpheed: double free or corruption (out): 0x0839e818 *...
    December 12, 2008

    multimedia over network II: pulseaudio

    PulseAudio is a sound server. Applications feed music to PulseAudio, and PulseAudio decides what to do with it. For example, it can send the sound over netwo...
    September 27, 2008

    multimedia over network I

    I want to: * run a program on a work PC, and * see and hear it in action on a leisure PC. The first attempt is failed, therefore I started to search for a so...
    September 24, 2008

    how to input diacritic characters

    I always used vim (for example, "Ctrl-K" ":" "u" for "ΓΌ"), but now I found a way to input such characters into any application, using the core feature of X11...
    September 20, 2008

    alsa and HDA Intel SigmaTel STAC9227

    After upgrading my Linux, I've got sound lost. Everything looked ok -- all the modules are loaded, all the special devices are created, no complaints in logs...
    August 19, 2008

    ripping a dvd

    In the most cases, people use mplayer and mencoder (under Linux). For my goals, ffmpeg is enough. Sample sh-file: for i in 01 02 03 ... NN; do ffmpeg -i ...
    June 16, 2008