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Automate disk checking using AutoFsck

blogabooga — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:23:38 +0000

Everyone must be little annoyed seeing this disk check happening every 30 systems boots. There is a tool called AutoFsck which automates periodic disk checking, so that it no longer bothers the user after certain number of times. This has a graphical user interface, wherein you can set the no of boots, schedule disk check. AutoFsck [...]

Launchy – Application launcher for ubuntu

blogabooga — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:55:16 +0000

Launchy is a free well-known windows utility, which helps you not to worry about launching your application by clicking it on the start menu or somewhere else. Launchy has released a version for linux users which can probably replace another application launcher called gnome do. You can download a copy of launchy here and install [...]

wicd – wireless network manager for ubuntu

blogabooga — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:15:07 +0000

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings. Some of Wicd’s features include: 1. No Gnome dependencies (although it does require GTK), so it is easy to use in XFCE, Fluxbox, Openbox, Enlightenment, etc. 2. Ability to [...]

Install Nginx webserver on Ubuntu Hardy

blogabooga — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:07:54 +0000

Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide. Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low [...]

How to install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu

blogabooga — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:53:50 +0000

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 [...]

How to install telnet service

blogabooga — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:55:33 +0000

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 [...]

How to install sshd

blogabooga — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:51:16 +0000

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 [...]

Subtitle Editor for ubuntu

blogabooga — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:54:51 +0000

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 [...]

Download youtube videos in ubuntu

blogabooga — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:47:44 +0000

<a title="clive" href="http://home.gna.org/clive/" target="_blank"><strong>clive</strong></a>

clive is an amazing command line video extraction tool for user-uploaded video hosts such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba, Metacafe and Sevenload. It can be chained with 3rd party tools for subsequent video re-encoding and and playing.

Features
<ol>
<li>Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)</li>
<li>Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, Guba, Metacafe and Sevenload</li>
<li>Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting</li>
<li>Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override</li>
<li>High/low-quality support where applicable (e.g. Youtube)</li>
<li>Chain with a 3rd party player software for playing</li>
<li>URL caching; re-fetch video page only if necessary</li>
<li>Chain with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding</li>
<li>Gzip compressed video page data transfers</li>
<li>Scan and extract embedded videos</li>
</ol>
Some more features:
<ol>
<li>Integration with X clipboard (xclip)</li>
<li>Overridable output filename formatting</li>
<li>Parse and extract videos from RSS/Atom feeds</li>
<li>Overridable video page title parsing</li>
<li>Continue partially downloaded files*</li>
<li>Automatic Metacafe family-filter override</li>
<li>Compatible with UNIX pipes</li>
<li>Dailymotion log-in support</li>
<li>Configuration file support</li>
<li>Recall last URL batch</li>
<li>Multi-URL (batch) support</li>
</ol>
*=excluding Youtube/FLV and GoogleVideo/FLV

To Install:
<pre>sudo apt-get install clive</pre>
Example:
<pre>clive http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LToULvLhE&feature=dir</pre>
Usage: clive [options] URLs

Type clive --help for other options that could be used along with clive.

Subversion with web access on ubuntu

blogabooga — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:26:00 +0000

I will take you through on how to install subversion with web access using apache module, which can be achieved through simple steps. Installing subversion sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn Creating repository sudo svnadmin create /svnrepo Editing web module configuration I have used gedit for editing. You can use any editor of your choice sudo gedit /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf The Element in the configuration [...]