Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

LightScribe in Linux

To burn/print lightscribe media under Linux, you need two things: Installing 4L No drive detected If 4L-gui doesn’t detect any drive, try running it from a console window. If you see the following error message: The described library is missing (as with Karmic Koala). Either try finding it in aptitude or do the following: This… Read More: LightScribe in Linux »

WiFi on bootup with guessnet

Install the guessnet package. This will install the guessnet-ifupdown helper tool. Now edit your /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following lines: This will first try to connect to the CompanyWLAN network and if this is not found, try the WLANatHOME. If everything fails, it will connect to any open Access Point.

ASCII-Art

To create ASCII art or just some colorful things with lots of ANSI color codes, there’s the package aewan – Ascii-art Editor Without A Name. aewan itself saves the files in an own format. But there’s the tool aecat which lets you cat those files – and thus you can also write the output into… Read More: ASCII-Art »

BTG

Homepage: http://btg.berlios.de/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/btg.berlios/ Incoming directory To have a directory scanned for .torrent files and let them be added to BTG, there is this nice bash script from the BTG HowTo: Set Speedlimits based on time of day This script also comes from the BTG HowTo:

apt Repositories

There’s a slightly outdated list at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185758 DropBox Repository for DropBox. feisty-commercial Google LaunchPad Projects Aguignard (Sonata, a MPD client) Bazaar Bazaar BETA Blueman blueyed (TV-Browser) c-korn (wine, vlc) Conduit Deluge Gnome Do Gnome Do BETA Gnome Terminator GnuCash Hamster Applet hyperair (Pidgin) james-w (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) mishd (Hotwire, PasswordSafe) mozillateam (Mozilla Alpha) Netbook Remix… Read More: apt Repositories »

OggSync for Windows Mobile

Tested Version: 4.19 OggSync connects to https://oggsync.com/r/r or https://oggsync.com/r/e and sends the entered info (PayPal eMail or Registration Code) along with some other info. You can find these URLs in cleartext Unicode inside the ogsync.exe. The relevant fields of a $_SERVER dump are those: PayPal: (I entered anon@anon.com as eMail address.) Registration Code: (The 12345… Read More: OggSync for Windows Mobile »