If you ever wondered what that mysterious ISO file you downloaded two years ago is, and don’t want to burn the image, you can view details of the volume with a simple command: isoinfo -d -i filename.iso You’ll be given details like the volume size, if the image file is a bootable one and other… Read More »
You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this. First, use Subversion to download the code for MPlayer: svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer Then the code for ff-mpeg svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk… Read More »
Say you want to write a small shell script that locks up your GNOME desktop at specific intervals. What command would you use?In this case, your best bet would be gnome-screensaver-command —lock This has the same effect as you pushing the Lock Screen button in GNOME. You can forge a small shellscript and use this… Read More »
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 »