I took this picture with my crappy cam and now I’m looking for a away to reduce some of the noise in this picture. I’m looking for an easy way, for a non-professional like me, to enhance this picture on Linux.
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Has anyone ever noticed the lack of good blog writing software for linux? I know that ‘good’ is a relative term and some may be happy with the way it is now. I am not.
Right now there are two applications doing a somehow more or less good job: ScribeFire and BlogGTK.
I already mentioned ScribeFire in my post about my favourite Firefox addons and it’s actually the application I use. I love cross platform applications and although this one needs Firefox to run it is what comes closest to what I need right now. Bad about it is that since Firefox mimics GTK the tabs look distorted in some weird way, and I’m not sure if this is related but the close buttons doesn’t work. There are other smaller bugs as well, but in the end it still does its job.
BlogGTK is as the name suggests using GTK, I’d prefer something using QT4 but hey, I’m not a toolkit nazi. If it works I couldn’t care less about the toolkit. The problem is that it doesn’t work very well, at least not any more. The project has been dead for about 3 years and as it seems the Metablog or Wordpress API changed. Some functions don’t work, I can’t edit older posts, they just get published a second time, and I can’t access my categories.
The project just got resurrected recently and I’m waiting for the first snap shot of 2.0.
Still both applications in their current state are absolutely no match to applications like the Windows Live Writer.
I hope this will change in the future. *lookingoveratbloggtkdevelopment*
People love irssi. Why wouldn’t they? It’s the best irc client in the world.
The problem is that not every company runs Linux powered computers, not every employer allows you to install an irc client on your pc at work.
But you as a geek of course always carry around your USB-flashdrive with the latest version of putty to play nethack and/or to connect to your irssi at home via ssh. The only problem you got is that you can’t get utf-8 characters to work and from what I heard a lot of people are having those problems.
Accents, umlauts or even kanji aren’t going to be displayed using the wrong configuration. That they’re displayed for you on the other side doesn’t mean that you’re outgoing text is encoded correctly and that other people are able to see what you wrote.
The first step is to set putty to use the utf-8 encoding. Open putty’s configuration and go to Window -> Translation and set the encoding to utf-8.
Next step is to set up irssi. Use the following commands:
/set term_charset UTF-8 /set recode_autodetect_utf8 ON /set recode_fallback UTF-8 /set recode ON /set recode_out_default_charset UTF-8 /set recode_transliterate ON
I bet I’m not the only one having to remember countless of passwords for a unknown number of different sites, mobile phones and all the stuff requiring the use of passwords. Today, passwords are used everywhere you look, face it, they won’t go away any time soon.
Another thing people just start to realise, passwords like “123456″, “qwerty” or “password” aren’t really secure and the convenience you gain using such simple ones stays in no relation to the risk they put yourself at.
So, what do you need? You need something to save your passwords, you need to know where this password belongs to, you need something to help you create secure passwords quickly.
In addition to that the software should be open source and being cross platform wouldn’t harm either.
And again, looking on Sourceforge was a pretty good idea. I found KeePassX, an application satisfying all my needs.
The download page features, besides the source code, distribution packages for Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora just as a package for OSX and a zip file for Windows. I know that at least Ubuntu does offer an older release in its repositories but when it comes to security, I want to stay up-to-date.
After installing it you can find it in Applications -> Accessories -> KeePassX on your gnome-panel.
The first thing is to create a new database. The database will be the archive of you passwords, usernames, websites and so on. Databases can be protected by password, by a small key file or/and by both.
Next step is creating groups for the different kinds of passwords you want to same like forums, websites, svn, ftp-servers, games. Besides the name you can assign icons to those groups for better usability.
Now that you created at least one group you can create entries, those entries may contain title, username, url, password, expiration date, comment and an attachment. You can either come up with a password yourself, or use the built-in password generator. Come to speak of it, this password generator is really worth mentioning. Checkboxes enable you to choose which kind of characters you want to be used, like lower/upper case letters, numbers, special characters, spaces and underlines. You can define a list of characters to be used yourself as well. Let the randomness begine! ….wait, there’s another feature of the generator: The option “entropy collection” allows you to generate your own little randomness recording mouse movements and key strokes.
Once you saved the password you want be able to use them. KeePassX allows to view them, to copy them to your clipboard or to use a feature called “Perform Auto Type”, which types in your username and password on your page of choice.
Putting videos on your website or on your blog can become pretty annoying as some people don’t have one particular player, this one particular codec or this particular browser.
What most people have though, is flash. If you make videos and want people to be actually able to play them on your website without having to download them, flash is the way to go. Continue reading ‘Create FLVs with Mencoder on Windows’
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