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’l[...]
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 Su[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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