Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

Aptoide Repositories

Aptoide is like a package manager for Android. It retrieves lists of programs from different repositories and lets you install, update or uninstall these programs. Here are some repositories to use (mostly from forum.xda-developers.com): You might try to download this file aptoide.myapp from your Android phone (with Aptoide installed!) which should auto-add all repositories:

Restore Windows 7 MBR

If you installed Windows XP after Windows 7, you’re left with the XP-MBR on your drive and thus only XP is booting. If you happen to have hardware, which produces the Code 5 error upon trying to boot from the Win7-DVD, you can do the following to restore the Win7-MBR from within XP:

Custom Ringtones, Alarms, Notification tones in Android

To add custom sounds to your Android phone, create the following folders on your SD-card: Now you can put your MP3 sound files into these folders and they will appear upon the tone selection dialogs. (You may have to wait a while until they appear, maybe even have to reboot the phone.) On older Android… Read More: Custom Ringtones, Alarms, Notification tones in Android »

Sync Package List between 2 PCs

To export a list of all installed packages, you can use the following command: But this will loose any {A} markers for automatically installed packages and therefore produce a lot of garbage when dependencies change. To export only manually installed packages, use aptitude like this: (More aptitude filterstrings can be found on their project page.)… Read More: Sync Package List between 2 PCs »

Citrix ICAClient

This plugin will work with browsers which support Netscape compatible plugins, e.g. Firefox or Opera. SSL error 61 This error means your certificate chain is broken or not “trusted”. Get certificates While the Windows clients download the certificates automatically, the Linux client doesn’t. You will need access to a Windows running Firefox or talk to… Read More: Citrix ICAClient »

Merge Video Files

To merge multiple (similar) video files into one big file, there are different ways. avimerge This only works with avi files. avimerge is part of the transcode-utils package. If the sound doesn’t match from the second file on, use the -c switch. mencoder This should also work with mpg videos. Install the mencoder package.

ACPI Events

If you wish to change the behavior upon pushing e.g. the power button, you can edit the config files located in /etc/acpi/events/. To disable the power button, you would edit the file powerbtn there and change the action line to:

Compiling Kismet

You need the following libraries to successfully compile Kismet: Install from PPA You can also install the latest version using aptitude from Festor’s HackTools PPA.