Category: Linux

Convert FLV file to MPEG using ffmpeg ffmpeg -i myFile.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 myFile.mpg

<p class=”intro”>If you have many IDE harddisks connected to the system(but not mounted), this command will find it. This will…

This command will let you watch a log file for changes as soon as they happen

LinuxDCPP is a linux client for the DirectConnect protocol. This is how you install it… #Get the code sudo cvs…

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

Backup all files in /var/lib/mysql to another folder To restore, stop mysqld if it is running service stop mysqld Move…

How to read a big text file that is tarballed – without extracting the whole thing… bzcat enwiki-20070802-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | head…

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]

The code to add a Windows loading section in Grub title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 [tags]grub,windows,linux,boot,loader[/tags]

These commands can be used to create an image of a CD/DVD/HDD. You can also use some GUI tool like…