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25 de Maio: Dia do Orgulho Geek Pois é! Quem diria que em algum momento da história da humanidade comemoraríamos o dia do orgulho geek. Porém a data comemora desde 2006 o direito de ser um geek ou nerd, sendo escolhida em razão da premiere do primeiro longa metragem de Star Wars, em 25 de maio de 1977. Na mesma data se comemora também o dia da Toalha, para os fans do Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias. Como presente aos geeks e nerds leitores do blog, deixo a charge abaixo: Para saber mais, dê uma olhadinha aqui e aqui.

last firefox and thunderbird package for ubuntu

Workaround for Thunderbird not starting via profile manager

Deleting a file or reformatting a disk does not destroy your sensitive data. The data can easily be undeleted. That’s a good thing if you accidentally throw something away, but what if your trying to destroy financial data, bank account passwords, or classified company information. In this article you will learn number of tools to delete files securely in ubuntu.

How to install gimp 2.6.1 on ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

#!/bin/sh #we wait 12 seconds so that Beryl gets ready (you may need more or less) sleep 12 # the path of cairo-dock (may be different for you) cairo-dock &

Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. Install youtube-dl in Ubuntu sudo aptitude install youtube-dl This will complete the installation. Using youtube-dl Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl followed by a video URL or identifier. youtube-dl Example youtube-dl “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar” The video will be saved to the file foobar.flv in that example. As YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be flv.Check this simple guide to convert .flv files to .mpg More usage tips You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in youtube-dl -o vid.flv “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar”. Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they’re flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password for a YouTube.com account with the -u and -p options, like youtube-dl -u myusername -p mypassword “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar”. The account data can also be read from the user .netrc file by indicating the -n or --netrc option. The machine name is youtube in that case. The simulate mode (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you prefer that option. The quiet mode (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output in order to pipe it to another program without interferences. The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard output using the -g or --get-url option.

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How to Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu

Submit Ubuntu Howto’s,Articles and earn goodies!!! Posted by admin on October 4th, 2007

Manage your Photo Albums with Picasa in Ubuntu

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utilisation des forums

désactiver des services inutiles (bluetooth, etc.) ex: sudo update-rc.d -f bluetooth remove réactiver: sudo update-rc.d bluetooth defaults

Je recense ici mes billets concernant la configuration et l'utilisation de ubuntu sur mon Ibook g4 12" (1.2Ghz). Ces billets devraient convenir également a la plupart des configurations proches.