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Virtualbox Virtual Machine with Eclipse and Android SDK 1.5 r2 Preinstalled
Installing the SDK for google’s Android platform can be a rather cumbersome process. To save you some time, I have created a Virtualbox Virtual Machine with Eclipse and Android SDK 1.5 r2 preinstalled.
Introducing Sinthgunt : an open source graphical user interface for ffmpeg
This post announces the creation of the Sinthgunt project, an open source graphical user interface for ffmpeg, a computer program that can convert digital audio and video into numerous formats. Sinthgunt is now running code, is under active development, and is looking for both developers and testers.
Home page: www.sinthgunt.org
Features:
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Howto: Automatically spin down external usb hard drives in Ubuntu
Spinning down external usb hard drives in Ubuntu doesn’t allways happen automatically in Ubuntu. To force a spindown, you can issue the command
sync sdparm --flexible --command=stop /dev/sdX &>/dev/null
where you should replace the sdX entry by the correct name of your external hard drive (usually sdb, sdc or similar).
To do this automatically every 5 minutes, save the code below as e.g. ~/bin/spindown/spindown.sh.
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Howto: Mount a ftp drive in Ubuntu
When working with websites, you often need to move files to-and-fro a ftp server. This is usually done using a dedicated ftp application such as gftp. In this long run, this is a very time consuming process so why not just mount the ftp drive as a directory in your home folder?
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Howto: Download all files of a specific type from a website
In this howto, we will describe how to download all files of a specific type from a website. The first thing you need is to install wget
sudo apt-get install wget
