It’s been a while since I last blogged, because I’ve been quite busy lately and haven’t found an interesting topic to blog about.
I’ve asked my good friend, Bernd, to write a small application for me that would let me edit the EXIF data of my photos. He wrote me this basic tool that pretty much just adds a comment to the EXIF data of my photos.
Ok, this time I’ll show you how to make one of these bad boys, an animated banner logo. Like this
or this
. The first one is actually a bit trickier as it involves a lot more layers than the other one, but I’ll explain that later.
What you need first to make these cool banners is,
You might have noticed that the suspend and hibernation function in ubuntu/kubuntu won’t work. While there’s no official fix, you might find this work around helpful, hope you enjoy!
Most people need hibernation for their laptops.
step is to install a tool called «uswsusp»
sudo apt-get install uswsusp
And by typing the below command you check if the suspend function works now….
sudo s2ram
Same goes for hibernation
sudo s2disk
Ever asked yourself how you can get your band logo onto your Myspace Band Profile rather than just a simple text displaying your band’s name?
It’s pretty easy, especially if you already have an existing band logo.
However, if you don’t already have a band logo, you can easily create one by using GIMP or Photoshop Elements. But let’s skip this step, i might post a tutorial how to create a neat band logo at a later point.
LaTex (pronounced La-Tech) is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program.
I’ve been using it to write a paper for university so I’ll be sharing my knowledge that I gained so far here with you.
Let’s start with the basics, you will need a LaTex Editor to write your text in, because you cannot just write it in MS Word or OpenOffice Writer and compile it from there. Just to set the record straight, LaTex is a markup language, which uses commands to make your text look bold, coloured or any other text alignments you want to put it in.
The output of your LaTex document will be a .pdf file, as soon as you compile it. This usually does the editor for you. So make sure you have the Adobe Reader or any other tool that can open/read pdf documents installed, so you can actually read your finished document 
For instance, if you want to put your text in italics you need a command like \textit{your text in italics}. But more of that later!
Back to the LaTex Editor question, which one to choose? Well, first of all it depends on the operating system that you’re using. I’m using Linux (a unix based operating system) therefore I chose to use Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/).
If you’re using Windows, you might want to use these editors – as they’re all free software:
However, there are also multiplatform editors which should work on all operating systems. There’s a plugin for example for the Eclipse Editor, and even LaTex-Suite-Plugin for the popular Vim text editor.
Which editor you may choose, make sure you’re comfortable using it – this means it meets your needs and is not too complex to use. You’re better off to start lowkey, with a basic functionality.
Yes, this is my first attempt of creating a list of useful, everyday bash commands - as I find myself constantly in the situation looking for a specific bash command. If you’re unlucky, googleing the right command (especially if you don’t know what it’s called) can cost you several minutes if not hours.
So this will save me and hopefully you as well, the next time plenty of time. If you think there’s an important command still missing, which is more than likely, feel free to leave a comment with the command and a short explanation what it does.
Very special thanks to Bernd for the idea and his input! Thank you!
Were you shocked as well when you found out that your Ubuntu (in my case Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10) wouldn’t playback DVD’s that you’ve LEGALLY purchased in shops or through Amazon? That ain’t fair, I’ve paid a good amount of money for my DVD collection and I should not be able to play them on my computer? The reason Ubuntu or probably any other Linux distribution doesn’t ship with an out-of-the-box dvd playback feature is that manufacturers of proprietary Software (e.g WinDVD, PowerDVD, etc..) pay money to ship these CSS (Content Scrambling System codecs which is a Digital Rights Management scheme which is used on almost all commercially produced DVD-Video discs. However at the end of the day, the costumer (we) pay for these DVD-player software, when we buy a DVD/CD Burner or a new graphics card.
This doesn’t apply for Linux or Open Source User - OpenSource Tools as the VLC Player or Kaffeine doesn’t pay these fees to support CSS, because VLC and Kaffeine are non-profit open source programs. There’s no money to gain by “selling” VLC or Kaffeine, therefore its users (we) don’t pay any money to be legally allowed to view our legally purchased DVD’s.
Dolphin, the new KDE file manager (entirely replaced Konqueror, which now serves as a web browser only) still has some teething problems. The main problem I was facing was, whenever I closed Dolphin I got this annoying error message:
After some googleing, I’ve eventually found the solution to my Dolphin problem
sudo chown -R theresa:theresa /home/theresa/.kde (replace theresa with your username)
That did it for me, next time I opened Dolphin, I had no such error message again. God Bless!
Ever wanted to rotate your computer screen because a word document didn’t fit on a page? That’s now possible, if you’re the owner of a TFT screen with pivot function. It comes in quite handy if you’re reading an E-Book with a rather high resolution (e.g 120%). You won’t have to scroll to the end of the page, until the next page starts.
The best way to use the pivot function, provided that you have a Nvidia graphic card, is to install the restricted nvidia driver on ubuntu (this works smoothly on Ubuntu Feisty (6.04) and Ubuntu Gutsy (6.10)) - if you’re still using edgy you have to find the right driver for your kernel version.
After installing the restricted driver you have to open the xorg.conf file (located in /etc/X11/) - but heads up, ALWAYS backup your xorg.conf before you start editing….if you’re using an editor like Kate, then you’re on the safe side, because Kate automatically generates a backup file.
Importing emails with KMail is easy - there are several ways to import email from different mail clients (e.g Thunderbird, Evolution, Microsoft Outlook Express, etc…)
Recently I tried importing my old (kmail) emails from my old Kubuntu OS. I made sure to back up the entire /.kde/ folder, but all you really need is this folder
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ … this is where all your emails are stored
