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Connect an Android Samsung Note Phone to Linux Ubuntu

14 May, 2012 - 13:29 — Viktor Mastoridis
  • Phone:
    • Samsung Galaxy Note
    • Android: 2.3.6, gingerbread
  • Computer
    • Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric (but it should work on othher versions too

Steps: (read more)

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Lilypond Chords only

28 February, 2012 - 22:40 — Viktor Mastoridis

It took me a few hours to figure all out.

How to have chords only, with time signature, bars, markups and repetitions

Here's a .pdf and a .ly - use it if you find it useful.

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Dual Monitor setup in Xubuntu using ATI Radeon graphic Card [solved]

20 February, 2012 - 23:21 — Viktor Mastoridis

Dual Monitor setup with ATI Radeon doesn't work on Xubuntu 11.10. At least not on the 64bit edition.

The "Additional software" utility installs the proprietary driver, but it doesn't work.

In Settings, there are two menus created after install:

1. AMD Catalyst Control Center

2. AMD Catalyst Control Center (adminstrative)

The first one doesn't let you modfy anything, the second one doesn't even run. (read more)

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Using ffmpeg to batch-encode WAV to MP3 with a single command;

20 February, 2012 - 20:24 — Viktor Mastoridis

This howto is given for ubuntu, but can be applied to most -untus. As I use Krusader  for this kind of operations, I will also give hints on its usage.
 

1. In Ubuntu, install ffmpeg, the ubuntu-restricted-extras and ubuntu-restricted-addons.

Copy paster this command in a terminal to do so:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg ubuntu-restricted-extras ubuntu-restricted-addons
 

2. Create a text file and paste this command into it (Krusader: Shift+F4) (read more)

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Left handed mouse cursor in Xubuntu 11.10

19 February, 2012 - 23:54 — Viktor Mastoridis

In Xubuntu (XFCE with Ubuntu) changing the mouse cursor for left-handed people seems easy, but it's not.

Thus, to change the mouse-clicks from righ to left: Settings > Settings Manager > Mouse - Button order.

 

To change the cursor, three steps are needed.

1. Install a cursor theme with left-handed cursors; my personal favourite is crystalcursors. to install it quickly, copy paste this command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install crystalcursors (read more)

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Get iPlayer basic commands

28 December, 2011 - 00:28 — Viktor Mastoridis

install: sudo apt-get install get-iplayer

search: get_iplayer [name-of-programme]

download: get_iplayer --get [number-of-programme, ex: 123]

radio: get_iplayer --type=radio digital [name-of-programme]

with subtitles: get_iplayer --subtitles  --get 123

subtitles only:  get_iplayer --subsonly --get 123

 

Old website: http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer (read more)

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Blackberry and Google Mobile Sync : Can't synchronise after wiping out Calendars

5 November, 2011 - 14:20 — Viktor Mastoridis

The solution:

  • Calendar > (menu) Options and type wipe 
  • Google Sync > (menu) Options > Reset Calendar Sync
  • Google Sync > Sync now

The story:

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Display Taxonomy Term Description in Drupal 6

3 November, 2011 - 13:22 — Viktor Mastoridis

Unless one is versed coder, there's no easy way to display Taxonomy Term description in Drupal 6. all of the online posts would involve some sort of coding.

But then I found some clues, and finally solved the problem with TVI: Taxonomy View Integrator

It provides an easy way to have your taxonomy description appear on the Taxonomy's page.

Download and install (from the above link) as usual in /sites/all/modules. (read more)

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Site5 and Cron: Drupal 6 & 7

30 October, 2011 - 19:34 — Viktor Mastoridis

Cron jobs on site5 are placed in the Programming Centre. You can also type 'cron' in the search box and the link to the relevant page will appear.

It's a straightforward and easy to setup, providing you know the commands that you need to enter

In Drupal 6, the command

wget www.mysite.com/cron.php

should work.

For Drupal 7, go to /admin/reports/status and near the top you will see a link for external Cron run, that looks something like this: (read more)

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Notice: Undefined index... in Drupal 7 & Search 404 module

29 October, 2011 - 19:36 — Viktor Mastoridis

I installed the Search 404 module on Drupal 7 and started getting the following notices, whenever the Search 404 would run:

Notice: Undefined index: module in ds_search_form_search_form_alter() (line 387 of ~/sites/all/modules/ds/modules/ds_search/ds_search.module).
Notice: Undefined index: module in custom_search_form_alter() (line 103 of ~/sites/all/modules/custom_search/custom_search.module). (read more)

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