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At work we image laptops with clonezilla. An average of 10 a day. A colleague and I have created a custom script to speed up the imaging. It is a little script, but it speeds up the restoring because you don't have to make choices anymore. It is fully customizable, and easy to understand.

So I bought my dad a new MP3 player. His iPod was from 2005 so it was time for a new one. Almost all of Dad's music files are .flac or .wav. The iPod played them thanks to rockbox. This one does not. And my dad is more like the average user, so I wrote a little program to help him. Well, program, more like a ffmpeg wrapper with Zenity. But it works and he thinks its easier than opening a terminal and executing a script in a folder. (which I disagree). So here is EasyConverter v0.3a, a nice GUI for something simple.

And here is another solution to one of my problems. Ever since I use awesome and awsetbg to switch wallpapers every 5 minutes, feh sometimes bugs up a popup. Well, that is now solved since there were some problems with filename characters. A massive rename solves it. And with Massive I mean over 1500 wallpapers ;).

Raymii.org's 2010 gift! An special USB installer that makes your USB bootable with Linux Mint, Slitaz, Tiny Core, Ultimate Boot CD, BCDL CD booter, Windows loaders and gPXE from boot.kernel.org! Easy windows NSIS version available, but also the source files so that you can do it yourself.

If you think Linux is difficult to install then read this. I've summed up three easy ways to install and try out Linux. I'm talking about: Live Media, WUBI and Virtualbox. So read on, and go try out Linux.

Today @ work we had a crashed PC. The PC served as a wall monitor to show the call central display via remote desktop. They said to me: Go fix it, no matter how you do it, fix it!. So I installed ubuntu, but the pc on win2k was called sparky. They vnc'd into it just by typing sparky. Now for some strange reason that doesn't work anymore, and I did not had time to fix it. So I made a script that sets the IP as wallpaper so that they can type that in ultravnc. (Later I thought that it would be better to auto-start uVNC to the central at login, but that did not came up on my mind earlier.) (And even later I discovered the /etc/hostname file was empty, and after I set that with 'sparky' it worked again...)

This is a response on an article at my neighbor site: http://www.nintenlord.com/x/?page_id=405. This time, it is not Pro Linux, but Con Linux. I agree with David's article, but many people do not. So I'd like to sum up what most people walk into when trying Linux. Note: This is written out of the viewpoint of a regular user that wants to try Linux. Not from "our" viewpoints. These are the points most people complain about. Agree with it or not, it is the reality. (At least, for a lot of people). 1. The most Linux distro’s are free of charge (and good). Also, the most Linux software are free of charge (and good). And there are lots of them! So, enough choice. For every Windows software are most likely different Linux alternatives.

At work we need to image laptops. We do that with clonezilla. But some people think the clonezilla menu ias to hard. So A colleague and I made a script to do it in 2 steps (mount and enter image name). But that had to be integrated in to the clonezilla live CD. That is a pain to do if you're on a windows vista PC. But it worked, and I wanted to share it with the rest of the world.

When I am at school, and I read that Slackware 13 is out, I need to have it. And I want it at home. So, what I can do is SSH into my machine, wget it, and it is done when I'm at home. But, at school SSH is blocked, and a lot of other things, like FTP, Youtube and they have a large Internet Filter. So, I need to have an other solution. Now I have it. You need to have an web server that is able to do PHP. I myself use lighttpd with PHP via fastCGI.

I have an old pc, it's from 2005. (2.4 Ghz P4, 512MB RAM, 80GByte HDD and an 64MB nvidia graphics card. I mostly use Linux mint, on all my PC's. At school via a USB stick, and at work via mint4win. But on my home PC it was getting rather slow and hoggy. So I was looking for a distro that would run fast on my main PC, and has built in 3G functionality. Not much choices remain.

I have set up Motion in a way that it Emails me when it detects movement, and it automaticly saves the pictures to my FTP server. I do not autostart motion in deamon mode, because it only needs to run while I'm away.

I've recently made the switch to the command line, and I'm going to make a series of tutorials for the apps I use. In this part I'll cover the basics of Elinks and Moc. In the viewpoint of a regular user like me.

This is a tutorial to make an Option 225 USB 3G modem work with Ubuntu Linux. It Uses parts from Pharscape.org, but is has a prepared package with everything you need. Works with Ubuntu 8.04 - 8.10 - 9.04.

This is a review of Ubuntu 9.04, done by a regular ubuntu user. It covers media players, Pro's and Cons, Wubi and some other new stuff.

This is a guide to make the printing part of your Canon Pixma MP110 work. It has a special file with everything you need in it. Then you just need to install your printer in the ubuntu screen. Tested on Ubuntu 7.10 - 8.04 - 8.10 and 9.04.

This is a guide I've written for the new Ubuntu release with LXDE. Tweaking for SSD included. It is targeted for the Acer Aspire One A110, but it will work with any other Netbook. Some Conky tips for LXDE included.