Oct 25, 2011

Cheating table in Win when typing special symbols

*Using numeric keypad

Alt+0176      °     (for °C)
Alt+0177      ±

Debian Problems

Debian 6.0.3 squeeze

*Unable to mount any external media
in the Root Terminal:
gedit /etc/fstab
[delete line for external media (starting UUID= or /dev/sdxy)]

*Disk Usage
df -h

*Wifi setup

aptitude update aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi wireless-tools
modprobe iwlagn
iwconfig
ifconfig wlan0 up


*Install ibus-mozc ibus-sunpinyin
add source:
deb http://ftp2.jp.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free
1 install ibus-mozc ibus-sunpinyin and their dependencies
2 upgrade ibus and its dependencies
3  if software sources is unable to open, try:
  apt-get purge software-properties-gtk
 apt-get install software-properties-gtk


*Convert Video
(from http://debian-multimedia.org/)
edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add:
"deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free"

aptitude install ffmpeg mencoder lame
mencoder input.flv -o output.avi -ovc copy -oac mp3lame

   or
mencoder input.flv -o output.wmv -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2 -oac mp3lame