If you want to disable X screen blanking (aka. disable the X screensaver) that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer, all you have to do is setterm -powersave off -blank 0 To make the change permanent, add the following to your ~/.xinitrc file: setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0xset s… Read More »
Most DivX/XviD movies you download from Torrent sites are packed in multiple RAR archives. It takes some time for each to extract. If you don;t want to wait, you can use VLC and unrar to play the file within instantly. You won’t be able to rewind and move fast forward within the file, but you’ll… Read More »
If you want to have Flash support in Google Crome, the Linux version, you can enable it like this:Make a plugins directory in the Google Chrome folder sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/pluginscd to it cd /opt/google/chrome/pluginsmake a link from Firefox’s Flash Player plugin into the newly created folder sudo ln -s ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Now launch the browser with… Read More »
If you want to find out what external IP address your router has assigned to it, you can either search the Internet for sites that can display that said IP address or you can use the Linux command line: wget -O – -q icanhazip.com