I often used awk way back in the Unix days of the late 80s but have been neglecting it over the past 20 years or so. Decided to refresh my AWK skills by reading some online tutorials. There is one...
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I often used awk way back in the Unix days of the late 80s but have been neglecting it over the past 20 years or so. Decided to refresh my AWK skills by reading some online tutorials. There is one...
Many thanks for the swift reply. It was a silly thing which was bugging me !
cheers
Rule 1 :
$ sudo ufw allow proto tcp from 192.168.1.1 to any port 443
$ sudo ufw status
To Action From
-- ------ ----
443/tcp ...
I've installed the netcat-traditional package on both my client (Lubuntu 12.04) and server (Debian 6.0) and would like to use the tool to transfer files from server to client.
Server side :
...
I have lubuntu 12.04 installed and mostly run fluxbox. As a result I am unable to use the Gnome shell based screen capture programs. Could anyone suggest a decent program , imagemagick "import" ...
I'm running lubuntu (12.04) with Fluxbox window manager. Sound was working fine and and could view and hear all streaming content on Youtube and the news media sites. Decided to install VLC and its...
Greetings.
For those familiar with Mac OS X ( 10.5.8 Leopard ) you will know that it is possible to turn your Mac into a wifi "hub" and share the ( ethernet) internet connection wirelessly with say...
Thanks for the help. I managed to resolve the issue by uninstalling b34- fwcutter , firmware-b43-installer, broadcom-sta-common and broadcom-sta-source. I then reinstalled b43-fwcutter and...
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2500 802.11g
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 6
bus info:...
Hi,
I have an old Fujitsu Amilo laptop of low specs which I tried to bring to life. It has built in Wifi but also a slot for a Wifi network adaptor. I one I use is the Linksys WPC54G V3 802.11...
Can you ping to your ftp server from a computer on your LAN ? Is you FTP server "firewalled" so as to block access from anywhere on the LAN ?
Hi Suresh,
Have you checked if your firewall is allowing ftp traffic ?
Good one, will do !
Thanks again !
uc
Nice one Fake, now we are getting somewhere. I think we have almost reached the holy grail except I get this perennial error :
File for preset 'medium_fastfirstpass' not found
EDIT: Fixed...
Thanks RL.
I've had to try the above on my 10.10 box, unfortunately, I get "unknown encoder" errors. I have the x264 encoder installed and have tried all the following :
$ ffmpeg -i input.avi...
Yes Fake,
I would like to reduce the video dimensions to approx 352x272, have good quality i.e. high-ish video bitrate and a size of approx 200-250MB. The running time of the avi is 50 minutes. If...
Thanks Fake* , here is the output :
unclec@linux:~/Desktop$ ffmpeg -i file01.avi
FFmpeg version r11872+debian_3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3.3, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
...
HI,
I'm using a basic ffmpeg command to convert some avis into mp4 :
file01.avi - 544x416, 368MB
$ ffmpeg -i file01.avi -vb 750k -s 432x336 file01.vb750.432x336.mp4
After conversion :
Thanks gents but I already have unrar installed. I'm looking for software that will create a compressed rar archive.
edit : Guys I was getting this error when trying to install on command line :
...
Hi,
I still use Intrepid 8.10 on one of my older machines and have tried, but in vain, to install some rar compression software from the repos. It seems as if the specified repo for 8.10 is now end...
Hello all.
I'm currently using the Lubuntu 10.10 LiveCD and all seems well so I may well install it. As I am a big fan of fluxbox I was wondering if this could be installed as a secondary desktop...
Just started using Ubuntu 10.10 but still have 8.10 installed on a separate partition. I've added the Medibuntu repo and followed instructions according to :
...
Hi,
Apologies for this old chestnut but I did manage to get compiz working well on Ubuntu 8.10 and wanted to know if anyone has got it to work on Ubuntu 10.10 with the above intel graphics ? I've...
Thanks.
Hi,
I've recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a machine, unfortunately, the hard drive was ext3 partitioned. Is there a way of converting this partition to ext4 without having to re-format and hence...