Restore Grub after Windows installation
August 6th, 2009
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Nano Syntax Highlighting improved…
January 12th, 2009
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I’ve found new syntax highlighting files for nano.
Here’s the link: http://wiki.linuxhelp.net/index.php/Nano_Syntax_Highlighting
Just after the image you can find some of my favourite ones.
Tips: Disabling Firefox 3 smart location bar.
December 19th, 2008
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If you, like me, have an old fileserver then you should use this trick because the Firefox 3 smart location bar can really rape your hard disk [valley girl talk mode]…like totally…[/valley girl talk mode]
Recording and encoding a radio streaming.
May 2nd, 2008
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Hello! Today we will see how to record a radio streaming. This tutorial can be used in Linux and Windows because we are going to use tools present in both “OSes”.
Make Firefox-Iceweasel faster
February 15th, 2008
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Hello, it’s been a while since my last post but I was busy.
We’ll see how to pimp our browser!
Change subtitles filename to match videos filename
December 20th, 2007
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Sometimes I need to use subtitles when I’m watching some tv show.
Most of them don’t match the videos filename. This is a problem because video players automatically load subtitles if they find the exact filename ( e.g.: video.avi loads video.srt )
Most of the times I have to change 24 subtitles filename per show and I’m tired to use copy/paste so here’s the script.
It uses 3 naming models: “302″ “S01E11″ “s01e11″ “3×01″
WARNING: it works only on unix-like systems. Put this script in the directory where are subtititles and videos.
dierre@thinkcool:~/prova$ python parser.py 3 (where 3 is the season number)
(IMPORTANT #1: you need to have N subtitles and N videos, otherwise the script will not work; IMPORTANT #2: If you need to change a season > 9 you need to delete [0]? from var )
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MP3 to WAV converter
November 24th, 2007
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Saving flv from Firefox cache using bash scripting
November 11th, 2007
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A few months ago I wrote a tutorial about how to save flv files using python scripting.
That wasn’t so much nerdy so I feel something inside me, like a voice telling out loud: “You can do it in a better nerdy way! I know you can!”
It/She/He was right.
Wajig, a new Debian way to manage packages
October 31st, 2007
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Wijig is a new way to imagine ( I’m a poet, you know 
) your Debian. It’s written using python and basically it’s an optimization of dpkg, apt, apt-cache and others tools. Actually Wijig runs them as subprocesses but in a smart way.
Actually final users don’t know which command is better to use in some situation and to be honest Debian doesn’t make things easy unless you RTFM! very deeply 
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Install KDE 4 using svn on Debian/Ubuntu
October 27th, 2007
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Save your Firefox cache flv files (Macromedia Flash Video)
October 23rd, 2007
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Today we will see how to save your flv taken from your Firefox cache. Due to using some specific console commands this tutorial is useful only for a Unix-like system, not for Windows. I’m sorry
Before starting let’s say there are tools, like Clive or Videodownload (firefox plugin), made for similar purpose but they work in a different way:
- they works on specific sites only (like Youtube), and that’s a problem because some sites are not supported
- If you have some bandwith limit issue, Clive and Videodownload force you to re-download the video
Especially the second point, to me, it’s a problem because I use an UMTS connection and it works using a limited bandwith per month and generally a flv file consumes some MBs.
Let’s see my way.
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Boost virtual machine performance
October 1st, 2007
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