Commands tagged Ubuntu

Quick and dirty way to disable the Ubuntu notifications that can be quite annoying. It prevent the notify-osd to start so you need to logout Gnome or kill it by hand to take effect.

i have a large video file, 500+ MB, so i cant upload it to flickr, so to reduce the size i split it into 2 files. the command shows the splitting for the first file, from 0-4 minutes. ss is start time and t is duration (how long you want the output file to be).

credit goes to philc: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=480343

NOTE: when i made the second half of the video, i got a *lot* of lines like this:

frame= 0 fps= 0 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=10000000000.00 bitrate= 0.0kbit

just be patient, it is working =)

Sometimes, simpler is better.

forces user to rw, group to r, and other to no access.

files will not be marked executable.

directories will be executable for users and groups only.

This will remove all installed kernels on your debian based install, except the one you're currently using.

From:

http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/12/remove-old-kernels-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-1590

As of 10.04 LTS, you need to use this command-line to reports bugs to the launchpad.net tracking system (you need a launchpad acct for this to work). This command is preferred over using the website because it collects/sends info about your system to help developers.

ubuntu-bug is a symlink to apport-bug which sees if KDE/Gnome is running and calls apport-gtk/apport-kde dialogs, otherwise apport-cli, so you can fill out a bug report.

First run 'ubuntu-bug' without args to see a list of known symptoms. If there's no matching symptom, or you know which package is to blame, then run 'ubuntu-bug <package>'. If the process is still running, use 'ubuntu-bug <PID>'

Change the APP variable's value to whatever you want to install. Depending on how fast your machine is, you'll want to adjust the value 50 to something else. You might also want to play a different game than Gnometris - just make sure it's a GUI game.

Show active calls as the happen on an Asterisk server. Note that the Asterisk command (in single quotes) is formatted for Asterisk 1.6. Use the -n flag on the watch command to modify the refresh period (in seconds - default is 2 seconds).

I had problems in Ubuntu while trying to edit /etc/resolv.conf, even with sudo I couldn't make any change. After a 2 minutes search on google I found this command.

Hope someone finds it useful.

It works like chmod, with + and - to denote which attributes are being added and which are being removed.

See other attributes on man pages or on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattr

Limits the usage of bandwidth by apt-get, in the example the command will use 30Kb/s ;)

It should work for most apt-get actions (install, update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, etc.)

if you haven't already done so, install lame and flac:

sudo apt-get install lame flac

this also generates errors (change 4 to higher number for more mistakes)

Please install aria2c before you try the above command. On ubuntu the command to install aria2c would be:

This command will transcode a MythTV recording. The target device is a Google Nexus One mobile phone. My recordings are from a HDHomerun with Over The Air content. Plays back nicely on the N1.

Use sed to comment out any up/down bindings in zsh

if you still get a permissions error using sudo, then nano the file:

sudo nano -w /sys/block/sdb/queue/rotational

and change 1 to 0

this thread:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=369836&postcount=15

says that this will "help the block layer to optimize a few decisions"

cd to the folder containing the wav files, then convert them all to flac. yeah baby!

in ubuntu, to get the flac program just:

sudo apt-get install flac

flac file input formats are wav, aiff, raw, flac, oga and ogg

Replace 'SHOWNAME' with the name of the TV show.

Add -n to test the command without renaming files.

Check the 'sample output'.

This command will disable the beep sound from the PC speaker.

Lets you set all the java alternatives at once to a matching version. Also has options for just changing the jre or the plugin.

Next time you are leaching off of someone else's wifi use this command before you start your bittorrent ...for legitimate files only of course.

It creates a hexidecimal string using md5sum from the first few lines of /dev/urandom and splices it into the proper MAC address format. Then it changes your MAC and resets your wireless (wlan0:0).