Some versions of VLC have this problem: once you enable visualisations it can not be disabled. Yes, there is a radion button in the menu in Audio –> Visualisations which can be set to “Disable” but to no effect – on next start of VLC it displays the visualizations plug-in screen again. Even if you’re […]
Month: March 2016
How to kill a stuck linux mount
How can you remove a mounted USB stick or USB HDD from the list of mounted devices? PROBLEM We have all done it – in a hurry you unplug a USB drive which was mounted in your Linux system without properly unmounting it and then it sits there in your list of mounts and you […]
How to resize multiple images in Linux
Use imagemagick – this is exactly what it was designed for! 🙂 For example: – to resize all .jpeg files in the current directory to be 320 pixels wide, preserving the aspect ration, do this:  $ convert ‘*.jpeg[320x]’ resized%03d.jpeg – to shrink all .jpg files in the current directory to be 200 pixels wide, at […]