Archive for March, 2008

Blogging From the Terminal

Bblog or Bashblogger uses a combination of standard unix applications such as vi, ls, sed, mv to perform the task of blogging from the terminal. Bblog uses vi by default but the configuration file can be edited to use other more convenient editors like, pico, nano or emacs.

Bash Blogger themes are generated with CSS, where [...]

Monitor Your System with Loadmeter

Loadmeter is a system monitoring utility that keeps track of various system stats, including Load Average, Uptime, Disk Usage and Memory Usage.
In default mode Loadmeter displays colored graph with load average of last minute. The red line shows the maximum load average since started and the blue line shows five minute load average. This is [...]

Turn Your PC into a DVD Ripping Monster (Linux Version)

[This tutorial is based on Linux Ubuntu Distro, but the tools used are widely available to be used for any other distro]
Lifehacker gave a nice tutorial on how to do DVD ripping under windows, with the help of a combination of shareware and free tools. It’s only fair to show that under Linux, this can [...]

Read DVD Content Information With lsdvd

lsdvd is a simple application that reads the dvd content and prints the information into the terminal. Among other useful information lsdvd gives you:

Name of the disc.
Number of tracks.
Length, format, aspect of each track.
Format, language, number of channels, contents etc… of each audio track.
Language and contents of each subtitle.

If you want to get a summary [...]

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