Archive for the 'Utils' Category

Gkrellm Theme : Invisible by Jkx

I’m using Gkrellm for a long time now (perhaps 5 or more years). The main issue with Gkrellm is that theme aren’t really fresh anymore. So I tweaked some to feet with my needs.
As you can see on the screen-shot this theme is a transparent one, with a blue and violet krells
You can download it […]

admin April 26th, 2008

How to convert matroska MKV to AVI on Linux ?

Today, I discover that my M3100 player doesn’t know how to play Mastroka files. Mastroka files are really kool since the subtitles are embeded in .. but that’s it, my player refuse to play open it.
This stuff can be repack in a AVI (xivd..) file with some open source tools. Here, a little script to […]

admin May 8th, 2007

Howto change the sound in a video (divx)

This afternoon, I compiled some video with Kino. This stuff works quite good. The main issue I had is that I want to have a nice music in background. I spend a little time, with transcode but I soon figured that FFmpeg can do that easily.
ffmpeg -i my_music.mp3 -i in_video.avi -vcodec copy ouput.avi
You can […]

admin August 16th, 2006

Tcpdump rules !

Tcpdump is clearly one of my favorite tool. Here a little example to filter the traffic of my OSPF router.
tcpdump -i eth0 ip[9] == 89
And the result:
12:43:48.219432 IP p2b.soif.fr > OSPF-ALL.MCAST.NET: OSPFv2, Hello (1), length: 48
12:43:48.560817 IP wrt.soif.fr > OSPF-ALL.MCAST.NET: OSPFv2, Hello (1), length: 48
Wonderfull no ? :)

admin February 6th, 2005

Extract soundtrack (MP3) from DVD with mplayer

I ‘m wondering if i gonna add a mplayer tips here ? :)
To extract a mp3 from a DVD, the easy way is to use transcode
transcode -i /dev/dvd -x dvd -T 1,2,1 -a 0 -y raw -m track22.mp3
But sometimes, this doesn’t works.. in fact I get a random transcode segfault. As mplayer is the perfect […]

admin December 26th, 2004

Ion Window Manager

Ion is a powerfull window manager, but the main issue of this WM is the configuration. We have already chat a little w/ Ian about this. While browsing the web, I discover this post on IBM Network.
So now, Ion is really fine, and IBM provide a nice doc :)

admin October 4th, 2004

Better window placement for every WM

I’m using xfce window manager since a while now. I’m only using the taskbar and the wm in fact. But i was looking for a feature for a long time. Xfce wm doesn’t support matched window placement (ala sawfish).
For example, there is no way to place gkrellm on every workspace, or tell Kmail for stick […]

admin September 14th, 2004

Blog post / Mutt IMAP Cache Vs Courier-Cone ?

The thing every blogger likes: Comments ? No ? Really ?
Anyways, i just added a RSS comment Feed to this blog. (No I won’t put the url somewhere since NewsAggregators eat a bunch of bandwith only to see nobody post, i will only give it to friends .. :)
But, this is not the main stuff, […]

admin July 31st, 2004

2 computers for 1 mouse and 1 keyboard

While building a custom host for the current project, i need to play with 2 computers, but my desk is to small (or full) to have 2 keyboards etc etc. I remember that i ever see this kind of stuff on gcu-squad.org. After a little search, i get it. The name is synergy. It works […]

admin July 30th, 2004

Nautilus / disable spatial mode

Latest version of Gnome Nautilus come by defaut with the "spatial mode", this is really kool, but i hate the fact it open another window for every click. After a quick search, i don’t find anything .. but today i discover this, and the scoop is to disable nautilus spatial: use gconf-editor and set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser […]

admin July 6th, 2004