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PPStream on Linux

paikia — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:14:14 +0000

One of sources for China’s netizen entertainment is watching online video streaming. PPStream as one of the largest online video streaming software, all the while only provide streaming for Windows. Finally, there is Linux version. It is for Ubuntu, but you can get it working on other Linux distros as well. You can download it from http://dl.pps.tv/

One of the common errors, even after following the instruction on PPS.tv web page, is that you can’t access the playlist unless you have the administrative rights.

You need to change from

./mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

sudo ./mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

Another more simple method is installing the 4 DEB package into your Totem player.

totem-pps_0.0.17.13-1_i386.deb [69Kib]
gst-plugins-pps_0.0.17.15-1_i386.deb [33.63 KiB]
libppswrapper_0.0.17.9-1_i386.deb [78.91 KiB]
libpps_0.1.826_i386.deb

Source: forum.ubuntu.org.cn

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Fedora 11

paikia — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:04:34 +0000

Finally, Fedora released their latest Fedora 11 Final. After more than 6 month development, and postponed twice on 26th May and 2nd June. Although I often discuss on my blog about Ubuntu tips and tricks, but Fedora really one of my favourite Linux.

One of the top discuss topic about Fedora 11 is the boot up time. Now the boot up time have reduced to 20 seconds, 10 seconds faster than Fedora 10. Let appreciate the boot up screen from Fedora team.

Download: Fedora 11 Final from official site

Download from Fedora 11 Final through bittorrent

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Opera 10 beta 1 on Linux

paikia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:14:03 +0000

Opera has just released their first Opera 10 beta to public. This version supports Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Solaris, QNX, OS/2 and BeOS.

There are some features why you would like to have the new version 10.

Opera turbo for fast browsing on slow connection
New visual tabs and sleek design
Speed dial
Web integration
Resizable search field
40% faster engine and cutting edge Web standards support
Inline spell-check
Auto update
Email your way
Automated Crash Reporting
Opera Dragonfly evolved

Is that all? Hm. To Opera users, the Version 10 seem to be a very promising upgrade to them. But for other browsers users, the attractiveness is there yet. Quite a lot new features mentioned which already long impletemented on Firefox and Google Chrome already.

I do wish Opera could have more evolutionary move towards the next HTML5. Maybe to me support Acid 100/100 isn’t the key feature to make me use Opera.

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Don’t bother to go other place for cheatsheets anymore

paikia — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:44:32 +0000

Cheat-Sheets.org is the only place I have been visiting for any quick reference, not only for Linux, but also other programming and web developments languages. They even have cheat sheet on chemistry topic?!

Quoted from there, these are the Linux cheat sheet you might need.

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Ubuntu One vs Dropbox

paikia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:03:22 +0000

While, Ubuntu One is still in closed beta, only through invitation to get access to it. I’ve applied it for more than one week, but still haven’t get any response from them. So, people very intuitive will take Ubuntu One and Dropbox for comparison, what so special about Ubuntu One?

Ubuntu One users get 2GB free storage spaces and for $10/month, you are able to get 10GB of spaces! But, with the same amount of money, I would able to get 50GB of spaces from Dropbox! And Dropbox not only run on Linux, but also Mac and Windows.

I think Ubuntu definitely lose its attractiveness compare to Dropbox. So, we will need to wait and see during the official release is there any more features can be provided from Canonical to gain back the attractiveness.

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A smart way to do process killing

paikia — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:42:00 +0000

It has been a while I have been using kill command to stop the non responsive running process. But until yesterday then I found out there is a much simple linux command that can do the job of kill and even much better way.

It is pkill command. Pkill is written for Solaris7 and later has been implement for Linux and NetBSD. Unlike the kill command which you need to find out the specific process id to do the killing. With pkill, all you need is just to know the process name, if can’t remember the full or just maybe part of the process name.

So if I want to kill my firefox, just type in

pkill firefox

However, it might also kill process name match the search, maybe there is some other process also call firefox-bookmark or etc.

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6 Linux Distros that can save your old hardware

paikia — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:20:45 +0000

In PC industry, hardware outdated too frequent. Your hardware often too old and too slow for the latest applications or Operating System. But you can give life to your old desktop by installing some lightweigth Linux distro.

Here are 6 linux distros that are less that 350MB. The first four are less than 256MB, suitable for less RAM computer.

Slitaz – 30MB. All the graphical desktop requirement you need to have are all inside the 30MB ISO file. The core LiveCD includes Firefox 3.0.8, gFTP, LostIRC, ePDFView, mtPaint, Transmission, Osmo and Alsaplayer. The software you need for entertainment can be found inside.

Damn Small Linux – 50MB filesize, able to boot from USB pen drive and business CD. The minimum requirement for the OS is an Intel 486 processor and 16MB! Very suitable for very very old desktop.

PuppyLinux – 85MB filesize. Preinstalled with almost all the applications you needed for leisure. It has good graphic interface, suitable for linux beginners.

Slax – 190MB filesize. is a Slackware-based bootable CD containing a Linux operating system, designed with a modular approach. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well-organised graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

Finnix – 300MB Filesize. A small system administration Live CD that is available for multiple architectures, from x86/AMD64, PowerPC to UML/Xen platforms.

PureOSlight – PureOS is a relatively new distro based in France. The Live CD is 700MB with KDE where the PureOSlight version is 300MB with Xfce, Iceweasel, Icedove, AbiWord, Gnumeric and Exaile.

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How to fix unsupported ATI on Ubuntu 9.04

paikia — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:07:08 +0000

There is a problem on showing purper desktop when using some ATI graphic cards. Here is one of the solutions I can find to solve this.

In the terminal, type the below command line by line to get the the open source ATI driver you needed for the problem.

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core

sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

cd xf86-video-ati

sudo ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr –enable-dri

sudo make

sudo make install

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How to build Transmission 1.3.2

paikia — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:09:00 +0000

Transmission is a popular bit torrent client, but I don’t know why it is not officially inside the Ubuntu repository. So, if you want to run Transmission, you need to build it from the source code. And from Transmission official web site, it also doesn’t provide a very clear instruction how to do it.

Below a detail walk through:

First, download the source code.

Then while downloading it, you will need openssl-dev and libgtk2.0-dev to install on your desktop then your compilation will make it.

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libgtk2.0-dev

Extract the source code. By default it will create in a folder called “transmission-1.32”

tar xvjf transmission-1.32.tar.bz2
cd transmission-1.32

Build the source code

./configure –prefix=/opt/transmission
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /opt/transmission/bin/transmission /usr/local/bin/transmission
sudo ln -s /opt/transmission/bin/transmissioncli /usr/local/bin/transmissioncli

Just type transmission then you can run it. While you can delete the temporary folder “transmission-1.32” you have created early.

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Launchy comes to Linux

paikia — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:26:46 +0000

One of my favourite applications on Windows, Launchy has finally come to Linux! I heavily rely on this software on Windows instead of looking for the software I want from the Start Menu.

Besides Launchy, there are also similar software for Linux, such as Gnome Do, but I’m still not very used to it. Gnome Do takes up to 20MB of space but Launchy takes less than 7MB.

On the latest Launchy 2.1.1 released on this 6 Aug 08 has deb package version and platform independent version.

Link: SourceForge

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