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 desktop icons on your desktop [...]

To extract a tar.bz2 file, use the command :

tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

To extract a tar.gz file, the the command :

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

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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 had one. Rmvb ready, I turned. Avi (at least I think so), if any. Rmvb, do the test using the following command and then tell me, do not forget to install mencoder

$FG.avi mencoder-ovc lavc-oac pcm-o F2g.rmvb

This command contains the path to FG.avi (Family Guy Series) on my desktop and name F2G.rmvb output. Si les [...]

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

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

# 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

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

3. Save and Close

4. Restart Pidgin

OK.

Good luck!

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For installing Multimedia files you need to add medibuntu repositories.

Run the follwing in command mode it will add medibuntu repositories in your sources list

H4ck3r@kartook:~$ sudo wget [...]