Archive for August, 2007

Installing DC++ in Linux

LinuxDCPP is a linux client for the DirectConnect protocol. This is how you install it…


#Get the code
sudo cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxdcpp.berlios.de:/cvsroot/linuxdcpp login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxdcpp.berlios.de:/cvsroot/linuxdcpp co linuxdcpp
#Install Dependencies..
yum -y install scons
#Compile and install
cd linuxdcpp
scons
scons install

[tags]linux, software,dc++,client,scons,install,direct,connect[/tags]

Command for Converting Video Format Using Mencoder

Convent video using mencoder in linux…


mencoder input.mpg -o output.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050  -ovc lavc

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide

Scope and Binding in JavaScript

Function x executions in the scope of object y.


var Car = function() { this.name = 'car'; }
var Truck = function() { this.name = 'truck'; }

var func = function() { alert(this.name); }

var c = new Car();
var t = new Truck();

func.apply(c);
func.apply(t);

Original Article
[tags]javascript,apply,call,binding[/tags]

Backup All Databases in MySQL

Backup all files in /var/lib/mysql to another folder

To restore, stop mysqld if it is running

service stop mysqld

Move all database files back to /var/lib/mysql. Make sure that all the folder and files in that folder belongs to mysql

chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql

Try starting mysql

service start mysqld

Read Tarballed Text File

How to read a big text file that is tarballed - without extracting the whole thing…


bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head -10

[tags]tar,zip,bzip,text,read,wikipedia[/tags]

Directory Listing Only Search

The search that limits the results to just directory listings…

intitle:”index.of” inanchor:”Last Modified” inanchor:”Description” inanchor:”Parent Directory” -filetype:php -filetype:asp -filetype:htm -filetype:html -inurl:”index.of” search.string

[tags]google,search,directory,listing,apache,folder,power[/tags]

Create a Folder’s ISO image

How to make an ISO image from contents of a directory?


mkisofs -V label-name -r directory-name > iso-image.iso

[tags]iso,image,folder,linux,mkisofs[/tags]

Adding a Windows Entry to Grub

The code to add a Windows loading section in Grub


title Windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1

[tags]grub,windows,linux,boot,loader[/tags]

Create CD Image

These commands can be used to create an image of a CD/DVD/HDD. You can also use some GUI tool like K3B to do this. Use one any of the three commands…


dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd_image.iso
cat /dev/cdrom >image.iso
readcd dev=device f=image.raw

[tags]cd, command, dd, dvd, image, iso,linux,raw[/tags]

Download Multiple Files with Wget

Wget can be used to download multiple files with just one command


wget -c "http://example.com/file[1-9].htm"

[tags]wget,download,multiple,series,linux,command,cli[/tags]