Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy – Go ahead
April 27, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
In case you are hesitant trying Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, well? Don’t be! It works like a charm. Works flawlessly on my Lenovo R61i laptop.
Update:
May 7 2008 – Hardy also works flawlessly on a HP Pavilion Elite m9252p Quad-core sweetness ;-P (Believe it or not but directly from Office Depot. Ouch!)
FreeNX server setup on Debian Lenny Sid Server
April 24, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
Create folder for freenx packages:
$cd ~
$mkdir freenxpkg
Download all packages manually (one by one) from http://krnl.nl/freenx/ to ~/freenxpkg/
Add the following line listed below to your /etc/apt/source.list:
$su -
#nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list
Type the following line at the bottom of the sources.list file “deb file:/home/username/freenxpkg/ ./” (without the quotes)
#apt-get update
#apt-get install freenx
Optional Configuration
Changing SSH port Number
By default, nxserver uses port 22 for communicating over SSH. On some machines or networks, port 22 may be blocked. For example, some providers block port 22. To make the SSH server listen on port 8888, you can do the following:
Edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#nano -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Find Port 22 and change it to Port 8888
You then need to restart SSHD. Try
#/etc/init.d/ssh restart
Edit the file /etc/nxserver/node.conf
#nano -w /etc/nxserver/node.conf
Find # The port number where local ’sshd’ is listening.
#SSHD_PORT=22 and change it to:
# The port number where local ’sshd’ is listening.
SSHD_PORT=8888
That is, change the port number to the one that sshd is listening to, and uncomment the line.
P.S.: You can also download all the freenx files as one zipped up package from: http://www.milehighlinux.com/freenx.zip
Convert MPEG video to Flash
April 18, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
Source: http://www.tsewdry.net/wordpress/?p=27
Excerpt:
“After quite a bit of toying around, I got the following to work to convert an MPEG Video to Flash format. The original video(s) were off my digital camera, and uploaded in AVI format. I used kino to edit the videos and created one output in mpeg format.
ffmpeg -i input.mpeg -ab 64 -ar 44100 -acodec pcm_s16le output.flv
Then run:
flvtool2 -U output.flv
To add duration information, etc.”
