My Technical Notes

The first step in achieving clutter free desktop area is “Hiding icons on desktop”.

Gnome provides a way to do that. First open up gconf-editor (Gnome Configuration Editor) by executing following command.

gconf-editor

Now navigate to /apps/nautilus/preferences and uncheck the tick mark on the option show desktop.

As soon as you uncheck the option show [...]

RMVB (Real Media Variable Bitrate). sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder librte librte-dev

mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=128 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1200 video_input.rmvb -o video_output.avi For Codec error refer HERE mencoder-ovc divx4-Copy-oac filmname.avi filmname.rmvb

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I’ve done those steps:

1. Open file /etc/hosts with gedit:

$ sudo gedit /etc/hosts

2. Add the following line to the end of hosts:

66.163.181.184 scs.msg.yahoo.com

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# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts 66.163.181.184 scs.msg.yahoo.com

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