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Disable the Terminal bell in Jaunty

It can be irritating sometimes. The Terminal “beep” sound. When you try to auto-complete a command with the Tab button you can hear it and you can never find enough time to set it off. Here’s how: Open [...]


Play encrypted DVDs in Ubuntu

Can’t play encrypted DVDs in Ubuntu? Launch sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh to install the CSS library. [...]


Convert text between different encodings

Want to convert a subtitle file to a different encoding? Use iconv -f WINDOWS-1253 -t ISO-8859-7 subtitle_file.srt [...]


Configure Vim to write Hebrew text

If you want your Vim to be able to read and write Hebrew text, open up your .vimrc file and paste the following: set guifont=-Hebrew-Bible-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-75-75-M-80-ISO8859-8 [...]