Set the clock from the Linux command line

If you want to set the date from the Linux command line, you can use the date command: sudo date nnddhhmmyy where nn is the monthdd is the dayhh is the hourmm is the minuteyy is the year For example, date 080717292009 would set the date to August the 7th, 17:29, 2009.

Find files that are older than X years using Linux

If you want to find out what files are older than – let’s say – ten years and still residing on your hard drive, do a cd /find . -mtime +3650 This will search for such files on all your Linux partition and display them in verbose mode at the end of the search. In… Read More »

Make MPlayer use the correct encoding for Romanian and Greek subtitles

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 Greek (ISO-8859-7) for Greek subtitles. Be sure to also pick a font that contains the specific diacritic character sets (Verdana and Arial… Read More »