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[HowTo] Save all flash video files being played in Chrome/Chromium to Home directory

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:22:44 +0000

After watching a video on youtube in chrome, I felt like saving it. I couldn’t find the flv in ~/.cache or in /tmp. So I dug around and found this link: http://superuser.com/questions/235535/in-google-chrome-on-linux-where-is-the-flv-if-not-in-tmp. The solution by omab worked for me. So I wrote this one line command which would save all the currently playing files in Chrome [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Extend phpmyadmin session expiration time

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:34:21 +0000

Recently, I got frustrated being logged out every few minutes (24 minutes, to be precise) from phpmyadmin on my localhost. I make some db changes, write some code and when I get back to phpmyadmin, I would see my session had expired. To fix this, I changed the configuration so that my session would expire [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Install Firefox 4 on Ubuntu using PPA

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:58:04 +0000

Firefox 4 which was released yesterday has been downloaded over 6 million times in just 24 hours. It features faster application startup, faster javascript engine, full HTML5 and CSS3 compliance etc. ============================================================== What’s New in Firefox 4: Fastest Firefox Ever Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Remove admin bar from wordpress 3.1

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:17:41 +0000

The new admin bar in wordpress 3.1 is one good feature to have but sometimes its unwanted. For example you might already have some other kind of top bar with which admin bar may interfere. You can remove the admin bar by putting the following code in /wp-content/YOURTHEME/functions.php: if(function_exists('show_admin_bar')){ show_admin_bar(false); } Related posts:[Solved] Disqus causing [...] Related posts:

Undo recent facebook style changes

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:02:12 +0000

Recently facebook made its font smaller. It worried lots of people with weaker eye sight. The font looks ugly as well. They reduced it all the way to 11px from 13px. And changed its color to #000 from #333. I made a quick greasemonkey script as it works cross-browser to fix the issue until facebook [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Use locate command and updatedb to search all partitions

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:59:35 +0000

Updatedb command by default does not include /media path for updating its database. You can change the settings in /etc/updatedb.conf so that it starts indexing other partitions too. sudo gedit /etc/updatedb.conf In the PRUNEPATHS setting, remove /media. Save the file and run sudo updatedb This will index all your files from /media folder. Make sure [...] Related posts:

[Solved] Mp3 not playing on Amarok

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:24:03 +0000

After upgrading to Maverick, somehow Amarok stopped playing Mp3. Same thing happened when I upgraded to Lucid from Karmic. To fix it, install libxine1-all-plugins: sudo apt-get install libxine1-all-plugins That fixed it for me! Cheers! Related posts:[SOLVED] Media Playing issues in VLC in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat [SOLVED] Error ‘dpkg: error processing <filename> (--unpack) trying to [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Suspend Ubuntu from terminal or keyboard shortcuts

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:25:27 +0000

When learning to make bash scripts, at one point or other you’d like to know how to suspend your computer from terminal. Well, there are quite some methods available for Ubuntu. You can choose whatever suits your needs. I prefer method 3 (look below). Method 1: sudo sh /etc/acpi/sleep.sh force Method 2: sudo pm-suspend This [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Find number of files inside a folder in Linux

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:09:08 +0000

I wanted to find out the number of files inside a folder. I didn’t want the folders to be included in the result. A blog post on zimbio.com shows us how to do it with ls command which is not only downright inaccurate, it is also slower than what I am going to show you. [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Open thumbs.db and extract thumbnails from it

Deepak Mittal — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:53:57 +0000

Thumbs.db is a file used to store thumbnail data of a folder in Windows. It makes loading of thumbnails significantly faster, however it has some privacy issues. Like if you delete an image, its thumbnail might still be there in thumbs.db file which would allow you to view it. There’s an open source python script [...] Related posts: