Archive for July, 2008

How to install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu

July 20, 2008 at 2:53 am · Filed under Applications, ubuntu ·Tagged ,

This article describes how to install internet explorer on ubuntu. Internet Explorer is necessary for certain class of users, especially web developers and designer. For these users, they need to test their web pages on internet explorer, since majority of the users still use IE. So people who use linux still log in to windows machine for IE. Here is an oppurtunity to move those kind of user completely to Linux.

Disclaimer:

For security reasons, it is not advisable to use Internet Explorer for secured browsing. Use it only for testing web pages developed by you.

Installing dependencies

sudo apt-get install wine cabextract binfmt-support

Installing IE4Linux

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar xvfz ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux

Now the below screen will guide you what versions need to be installed, where the launchers should go. If can enable installation of IE7, which is experimental in the advanced options. Now click OK to continue installing.

The installation starts downloading necessary files from microsoft website.

After installing, the short cut appears on the desktop or whatever options you have choosed earlier. Now its ready to use IE and test your web pages.

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How to install telnet service

July 18, 2008 at 5:55 pm · Filed under ubuntu ·Tagged

TELNET is a client-server protocol, based on a reliable connection-oriented transport. Typically this protocol used to establish a connection to TCP port 23, where a getty-equivalent program (telnetd) is listening, although TELNET predates TCP/IP and was originally run on NCP.

Install telnetd server
$ sudo apt-get install telnetd

Restart inetd service:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

You should now be able to telnet to the server from Windows or Linux desktop system to Ubuntu Linux telnet server. Type the following command to connect to
Telnet server:

$ telnet ubuntu-linux-server-ip
$ telnet 192.168.1.200
$ telnet ubuntu.domain.com

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How to install sshd

July 18, 2008 at 4:51 pm · Filed under ubuntu ·Tagged

Install
To install both ssh client and server, type the following command

sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

How to Configuration
You need not have to worry about it. The SSHD Service is automatically started. Now you go ahead and test whether it is working or not.

How to Test
You can do the test either from the same computer or different computer. If you are testing from the same computer, type the following command.

ssh localhost

or if from different computer, type the following command.

ssh user@your-server-ip-address

How do I use ssh client?
Assuming that your server hostname is username.domain.com and username is abc, you need to type the following command:

ssh abc@username.domain.com

To stop ssh server, enter:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop

To start sshs server, enter:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start

To restart ssh server, enter:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

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Subtitle Editor for ubuntu

July 6, 2008 at 4:54 pm · Filed under Applications, ubuntu, video ·Tagged

Subtitle Editor

Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform, edit, correct and refine existing subtitle. This program also shows sound waves, which makes it easier to synchronize subtitles to voices.

gsubedit

GSubEdit, or GNOME Subtitle Editor, is a tool for editing and converting DivX  subtitles. It currently features read/write of SubRip (.srt) and MicroDVD (.sub) subtitles. Frame rate conversion and frame displacement (Increase/decrease all frames by a given offset) is also supported

Gnome Subtitles

Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.

Gaupol

Gaupol is an editor for text-based subtitle files. It supports multiple subtitle file formats and provides means of correcting texts and timing subtitles to match video. The user interface is designed with attention to batch processing of multiple documents and convenience of translating.

Jubler

Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features.

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