Home Camera Security System
Resources for setting up a motion-detection camera security system controlled from your PC using an analog camera. Tutorials Using your PC and a Webcam as a security camera MythTV and a Security Camera...
View ArticleBatch Convertion from PDF to jpg
Programs needed for batch converting PDFs to an image file (pdf2jpg, pdf2jpeg, pdf2png): ImageMagick Windows version Unix/Linux Download Tutorial by examples Ghostscript Download Note: Once Ghostscript...
View ArticleInstall a Perl Module on a Shared Host
Setup cpan: $ mkdir ~/perl $ mkdir -p ~/.cpan/CPAN $ touch ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm $ cpan cpan> o conf init Set the following settings: 'cpan_home' => q[/home/username/.cpan], 'build_dir' =>...
View ArticleSlackware’s Slackbuilds modified for Slamd64
Here’s what I needed to add/modify to the Program.SlackBuild file downloaded from SlackBuilds: ARCH=${ARCH:-x86_64} # modified elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64"]; then # added SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" # added...
View ArticleBonding multiple network interfaces (NIC) in Linux
Bonding multiple network interfaces can be used for load balancing or fault tolerance. Bonding Reference What can you do with a second Ethernet port? A simple tutorial Note: Bonding is also called port...
View ArticleLinux: record a Screencast w/ sound using ffmpeg
How to record a screencast with sound from the sound server (e.g.: ALSA) using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/audio -f x11grab -s 800x600 -r 15 -i :0.0 output.avi
View ArticlePerl’s KinoSearch vs Plucene
KinoSearch is the winner The following perl scripts index *.txt in the current folder and search for “TEST”. The first one is using Perl’s KinoSearch module and the other one is using Plucene....
View ArticleCompile MythTV 0.21 Slackbuild for Slackware 12.1
with the latest ffmpeg installed, I add to temporarily move the following directories in my home directory for the MythTV compilation to go smoothly: /usr/include/libavcodec/ /usr/include/libavformat/...
View ArticleCompare four columns in Open Office or Excel
For example, you have 2 sheets, Sheet1 and Sheet2: they both have a list of part numbers in column A and a list of prices in column B. You want to compare the prices for the same part numbers in each...
View ArticleLinux Mass Rename Recursively using a Bash Script
This example Bash script replaces “.JPG” with “.jpg” recursively in the current directory (It can handle filenames with spaces): #!/bin/bash find ./ -type f -name "*.JPG" | while read FILE do...
View ArticleBackup your Firefox Passwords
There are only 2 files you need to backup: signons.sqlite key3.db You can find those in your Firefox profile: Linux ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/ Windows Click the Windows Start button, and...
View ArticlePassing parameters to modules in Ubuntu
In this example, I pass the parameter “card=42″ to the module “saa7134″ when the module loads at boot time. Add your module to /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This...
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How-To Change The Default Sound Card in Slackware Linux
How-To Change The Default Sound Card in Slackware Linux My case: I have an on-board sound card that I use for everything except for Skype, where I use my Logitech ClearChat Wireless USB Headset. It is...
View ArticleChange Skype’s 2.1.0.47 Default Sound Device in PulseAudio
Skype 2.1.0.47 beta uses pulseaudio as the default sound device, so you need to change the default sound device fo skype using a pulseaudio. Install pavucontrol if it’s not already installed Start...
View ArticleLinux Xorg Broken After Kernel Update and Reboot Because of Nvidia Driver
Re: help!! the last update broke my boot press alt+printscreen+r (to release the keyboard from the Xserver) then hit crtl+alt+F1 (and log in) sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the lines that says...
View ArticleBroken Ubuntu Karmic: How To apt-get upgrade Using The LiveCD
If your Ubuntu installation (or any other linux distribution that has a liveCD) is broken and can’t boot because of a faulty update, you can try to update your installation after booting from the...
View ArticleUbuntu Doesn’t Save My Sound Settings …
For some reason, Ubuntu Karmic wasn’t saving my sound volume and settings that I set using the Sound Preferences. After attempting to run alsactl store I got: $ alsactl store alsactl: save_state:1530:...
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Living Room Media Players / Centers
The Boxee Box by D-Link Vudu XL Popcorn Hour C-200 LG BD390 PlayOn!HD Roku Mvix Ultio Netgear EVA2000 Neuros Link Another option would be to use an Home Theater PC (HTPC), more expensive but also more...
View ArticlePlaying Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Under Ubuntu Linux
[code lang=”shell”]sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install wine1.2 wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks vcrun2005 sh...
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