I found out today how to set the real time clock max frequencies in Ubuntu since they removed the possibility to do it from sysutil.conf from newer kernels. Add the following to your /etc/rc.local or another startup script: echo 2048 >/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/max_user_freq echo 2048 >/proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq Reboot, and you should get better performance from things like mplayer.
Recently, I’ve gotten pretty into photography. I bought a digital SLR, a Nikon D40X, which I love. I also went to Germany recently, which gave me many opportunities to take some really pretty pictures. Many times, I couldn’t capture the scene in just one picture, so I had to take some panoramas. I generally do my panoramas vertically so I can capture a larger amount of vertical area. This requires more shots, but memory it cheap, and I don’t have [...]
Today, I finally set up my new OCZ SSD hard drive: All I had to do to convert my M1530 running Ubuntu over was use the cp command: mkdir /mnt/root && mount root_partition /mnt/root mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/target cp -a /mnt/root/ /mnt/target/ You might also have to repeat for other partitions like boot and home. cp -a is awesome. It does exactly what you need for this process. Now my computer runs perfectly (other than me having to tweak grub a [...]
I found a neat little app today: FahMon. You can use to monitor any Folding@Home process, including the GPU ones you run with wine! The PPD column shows that my SuperClocked GTS8800 from EVGA destroys the combined efforts of my Core 2 Duo, which is overclocked to over 3 Ghz, by more than ten-fold. Amazing.
So, I tried Firefox Minefield Beta today at the suggestion of Slashdot, and I like it. It’s really speedy compared to even the previous 3.0 versions. Text shadows now work, which is really cool. SunSpider Benchmark Results
In today’s troubled world, it’s nice to be able to talk about different currencies. The Euro is one that has gotten very popular lately, and you can actually type the character in Linux. In Ubuntu, you can select a Third-level chooser key to enable foreign characters to be typed. I chose the right ALT key for mine. Here’s how I did it: Open System -> Preferences -> Keyboard and go to the Layouts Tab. Click Layout Options Pull down the [...]
So, you have your Jailbroken iPod Touch or iPhone with 2.0 firmware running OpenSSH, and you have MxTube 1.5 or better, of course. What if you want one of those pesky videos that YouTube deletes all the time, like Paris Hilton For President? Or maybe you want a full movie on your iPod without having to sync to iTunes since you’re stuck in Linux Land. Well, here’s how.
Idea I wanted to put images on my iPod Touch without using iTunes since, as most of us know, there is no good way to use it from Linux. It turns out there is a magic directory on the iPod Touch where it saves images from Safari. I simply looked at how it saved them, and applied it on my box here at home. Requirements Jailbroken iPod Touch (I used WinPWN), with OpenSSH installed and working (the root password is [...]
I made a cool one-liner in bash today that renames files sequentially. Here’s an example that takes all the JPEGs in a directory and renames them in order: EII=4; for i in *.jpg; do ls $i; \ NEWNAME=IMG_00`printf “%02d” $EII`.JPG; \ echo Renaming $i to $NEWNAME; \ mv $i $NEWNAME; EII=`expr $EII + 1`; done Pretty cool, huh? This is in relation to my next post. Keep watch…
The new July 2nd version of Flash Player 10 for Linux finally fixes the HTML overlay bug that we’ve been seeing for years. You can now see things on top of the flash elements on the page, like so: Get it now! Update After trying it with YouTube and TheSixtyOne, and seeing some lame bugs, I decided to go back to Flash 9 and face the music on overlays.
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