Vista to OpenSuSE 11.0 Migration

partition setup:
sda1 - DELL stuff
sda2 - NTFS Vista Basic SP1
sda3 - FAT32 Document partition
sda4 - Fedora 9

what happen?
Friday
- deleting the fedora 9's partition, in order to gain some space
- thinking of fooling around in linux using virtualbox :P
- shutdown the PC
Monday
- Boot the PC
- GRUB prompt + nothing.. (as expected)
- looking for Original Vista DVD, not found..
- Got openSuSE DVD from LFY lying around doing nothing :evil grin:
- Installed..
-- use gnome
-- minimal somewhat (a bit more than 1GB installation size)
- notice there's no GDM..
- Network (eth0) is fine

Task
- Connect to remote SunOS 5.8, done
-- just plain ssh will do :D
- open shared folder on Windows 2K
-- open nautilus
-- File | Connect to Server...
-- select Windows Share
-- fill in the details
-- DONE
- Edit a Word + Excel document (mundane report stuff :D)
-- put DVD in
-- yast2
-- change DVD repo priority to be higher
-- select OO.o 2.4.x, click apply
-- wait & relax
-- copy the files from 'mapped remote harddrive' to desktop
-- edit & move over back
-- DONE
-- direct editing hangs OO.o ...
- putty needed
-- Install wine
-- download putty
-- run $ wine ~/bin/putty.exe &
-- DONE
- read windows' partition
-- not autodetected (WHY??)
-- /dev/sda2 + /dev/sda3, check
-- create mount points
-- edit FileSystem table
--- $gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab
-- reboot
-- DONE (somewhat, its r/~w by root only T_T)
- Email..
-- copy over Vista Thunderbird profile to ~/.thunderbird
-- +
-- thunderbird -ProfileManager
-- set profile's folder
-- DONE

Keluaran Berputar

Since I started using linuxmint (i think just a few months ago :D), i recently noticed that i didn't really like the 6-month release cycle, because i HATE to upgrade my OS so that I can use gimp 2.6, firefox 3.0, OpenOffice.org 3.0 or any other latest apps..

Didn't really blame linuxmint, since they are ubuntu-based, so they just followed suit :P but the funny thing is ubuntulinux is based on debian, a rolling release distro..

This means once installed the system, i can choose to upgrade the relevant/favourite apps only (+ its dependencies) without reinstalling the OS. Two of 'em is Arch & PCLinuxOS..

since i'm a newbie (and haven't subscribe to Kizuna, yet), so i like a simple, out-of-the-box kind of distro (which is why i choose linuxmint)..

Actually I have considered between linuxmint vs pclinuxos before, but resort to mint as the support (+ ubuntu forums) are better for n00b like me..

I look around Arch (and it can be quite a beauty), but it seems that it is a little bit easier than LFS, so it's more like for those lucky bastards with a few Gbps download speed and already at the linux demigod level (LFS is for linux god only) :D

So I've decided on PCLinuxOS Gnome (not in love with KDE), right after i finished the torrent + bought a much-needed 120GB HDD + RAM

p/s: maybe can try some *BSD / OpenSolaris :lol: open for suggestion/donation

Eight Circles of UNIX-fu

[Author Unknown]

beginner
- insecure with the concept of a terminal
- has yet to learn the basics of vi
- has not figured out how to get a directory listing
- still has trouble with typing after each line of input

novice
- knows that ls will produce a directory listing
- uses the editor, but calls it "vye"
- has heard of C but never used it
- has had his first bad experience with rm
- is wondering how to read his mail
- is wondering why the person next to him seems to like Unix so very much

user
- uses vi and nroff, but inexpertly
- has heard of regular-expr.s but never seen one
- has figured out that "-" precedes options
- has attempted to write a C program and has decided to stick with pascal
- is wondering how to move a directory
- thinks that dbx is a brand of stereo component
- knows how to read his mail and is wondering how to read the news

knowlegable user
- uses nroff with no trouble, and is beginning to learn tbl and eqn
- uses grep to search for fixed strings
- has figured out that mv(1) will move directories
- has learned that "help" doesn`t help
- somebody has shown him how to write C programs
- once used sed to do some text substitution
- has seen dbx used but does not use it himself
- thinks that make is only for wimps

expert
- uses sed when necessary
- uses macro"s in vi, uses ex when necessary
- posts news at every possible opportunity
- write csh scripts occasionally
- write C programs using vi and compiles with cc
- has figured out what "&&" and "||" are for
- thinks that human history started with "!h"

hacker
- uses sed and awk with comfort
- uses undocumented features of vi
- write C code with "cat >" and compiles with "!cc"
- uses adb because he doesn`t trust source debuggers
- can answer questions about the user environment
- writes his own nroff macros to supplement standard ones
- write scripts for Bourne shell (/bin/sh)
- knows how to install bug fixes

guru
- uses m4 and lex with comfort
- writes assembly code with "cat >"
- uses adb on the kernel while system is loaded
- customizes utilities by patching the source
- reads device driver source with his breakfast
- can answer any unix question after a little thought
- uses make for anything that requires two or more distinct commands to achieve
- has learned how to breach security but no longer needs to try

wizard
- writes device drivers with "cat >"
- fixes bugs by patching the binaries
- can answer any question before you ask
- writes his own troff macro packages
- is on first-name basis with Dennis, Bill, and Ken

Download imeem song on Linux

Ingredients:

- Firefox

- Video DownloadHelper plugin

- ffmpeg (additional flavor)

Steps:

0. Install firefox + VDH

1. Go to the song's page on Imeem

2. Just play the song as usual (needs package flashplugin-nonfree from synaptic)

3. You will notice the VDH's logo rotating, indicating a media file is detected

4. After the song is finished loading/playing, click on VDH logo, and select a file with such name : long-random-incomprehensible-file-name.flv

4.0. if there are multiple of it, just try your luck one-by-one :P

5. the downloaded flv can be played in VLC / mplayer / totem

Extra-steps:

6. Open a terminal

7. Issue command likewise:

ffmpeg -i long-random-incomprehensible-file-name.flv -ab 128 actual-supplied-name.mp3

8. Enjoy :D

Notes:

- if you noticed, this steps can be applied to windows also :D

- using above command could be tedious, so we can a new item in nautilus-actions-config as such:

[menu item & action]

path: ffmpeg

parameters : -i %M -ab 128 %M.mp3

[conditions]

filenames : *.flv

mimetypes : application/x-flash-video

FIN

OOXML to ODF

.docx | .xlsx | .pptx

Those three extension is for the somewhat new MS Office 2007 (the one with ribbon interface), but lucky me I have yet to receive any email with such attachment :D

Anyway, by default OpenOffice.org 2.x cannot open those files (OO.o 3 will have that capability), so as a workaround, we can use OdfConverter from Novell's SuSE.

NOTE: I'm using Linux Mint 4 (based on Ubuntu Gutsy)

So download one of the rpm package (most probably will be the i386).

Then open the rpm with Archive Manager, and copy out /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter to /usr/bin (might need to sudo)

Then run OdfConverter from a console

$ OdfConverter

AND, I was hit by a surprise : 

OdfConverter: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

a quick look inside /usr/lib yields that I have libtiff.so.4

so just do this :

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

(create a symbolic link to fool OdfConverter that we have libtiff version 3 :D)

So, our OdfConverter will now works..

$ OdfConverter

Error when parsing command line: Input is missing

Usage: OdfConverter.exe /I PathOrFilename [/O PathOrFilename] [/BATCH-ODT] [/BATCH-DOCX] [/V] [/OPEN] [/XSLT Path] [/NOPACKAGING] [/SKIP name] [/REPORT Filename] [/LEVEL Level]

FIN

p/s: why is it OdfConverter.exe? :P