8th August 2009
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Uncategorized, cli
You can search Google.com from the Linux command line without using a CLI web browser like lynx or Elinks. All you need is the curl and html2text packages installed. Then you issue the following command:
curl -A Mozilla [...]
Tags: browser, curl, Google, search
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15th July 2009
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Hardware, Uncategorized, cli
To check what RAM memory type yo have installed (and also see other useful information about your system), do a
sudo dmidecode
Depending on the version of dmidecode you have installed and the hardware configuration you h[...]
Tags: memory, RAM
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9th July 2009
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Open up GMPlayer (or another MPlayer GUI) right-click on it, go to Preferences, click on the Font tab and from the Encoding list chose Slavic/Central European Languages (ISO-8859-2) for Romanian subtitles. Use Modern Gre[...]
Tags: encoding, encodings, font, fonts, MPlayer, subtitles
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2nd July 2009
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Let’s say you have an 8GB DVD ISO file and you want to shrink it to a more acceptable 4GB ISO file. You can use K9Copy’s Shrink Factor feature. Just extract the DVD files into a separate folder, load that fol[...]
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