The default tool for CD ripping under Gnome is Sound Juicer, found under Applications → Sound & Video → Audio CD Extractor. But this tool had severe problems recognizing my custom configuration for LAME encoding (I changed vbr-quality from 6 to 2 but the tool ignored it) also you had to restart it for every… Read More »
Homepage: http://www.opera.com/browser/Development Blog: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ (incl. Snapshots) Hide Trayicon To save space in the systray, you can run opera with the -notrayicon parameter. Disable Mailsystem To save some memory footprint, you can disable the mail module in Opera. Cleanup caches Opera accumulates several Megabytes on caches, esp. those, who don’t cleanup themselves such as the favicon… Read More »
Some channels for PEAR. Use this to add them: Unsupported protocol If you get the following error message, you have to refresh the channels pear.php.net and pecl.php.net: The easiest solution was found in the last post of a thread in the PEAR Forum:
permanently To remap mouse buttons permanently, you can use the xinput set-button-map command. Every mouse button click issues a button click with a specific id to X11. X11 recognizes the following buttons: ID Button 1 Left click 2 Middle click 3 Right click 4 Wheel up 5 Wheel down 6 Wheel left 7 Wheel right… Read More »
Enable all settings in SetPoint Install uberOptions to enable ALL settings in the Logitech SetPoint application. Remapping buttons in Linux You can use the following command to remap the buttons: The <device-id> is shown in the xinput list output as Logitech USB Receiver [XExtensionPointer] – you can use the name as a string or the… Read More »
Remapping buttons in Linux You can use the following command to remap the buttons: The <device-id> is shown in the xinput list output – you can use the name as a string or the id number. You can query the actual button state using xinput query-state <device-id>. The mouse has following button-ids: Button ID Thumb… Read More »
Homepage: qumana.com Qumana is a nice blog editor for Windows and Mac. But it is written in Java and thus should run on any platform. Running under Linux Download the Mac-Version (.zip) and unpack it. You’ll find a directory Qumana.app which contains a directory Contents which contains a directory Resources which contains a directory Java.… Read More »
Most older programs, like The Dog Ate It are using the old 240×320 format with double pixel size. So for TDAI, this had the effect, that the ClearTyped text was badly readable because of the big pixels. The problem is that these old programs don’t bring the HI_RES_AWARE flag which causes this double pixel mode,… Read More »
Install DD-WRT Download: dd-wrt.com Patching firmware Older versions of DD-WRT didn’t provide a firmware file for the WL-300g, but only for the WL-500gx. So I had to patch it for the WL-300g to accept. The router ID was found quick: In the dd-wrt.v23_asus.trx at 0x356fc4, there’s the string which is WL500gx. After changing it to… Read More »
A local discounter offered a MP4-player entryx EM850 some time ago. The supplied firmware has some severe problems, e.g. the devices powers off while playing without touching it. After some research, I found some thread at discountfan.de which mentions that the device is originally built by YIFANG and is OEM’ed as Meizu M6 or TEAC… Read More »