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Best article on the net on the topic of installing codecs in Fedora (includes rpmfusion repo setup)! 🙂
Summary:
To find the PID of a running UNIX/XWindow process:
$ xprop _NET_WM_PID
If that fails:
$ ps -ww -fp <PID>
$ pwdx <PID>
Detailed explanation:
So How can you find the PID (not Window ID!) of a running UNIX/XWindow process?
Method 1 (simple):
$ xprop […]
Short answer:
.git/config in your active git repository; ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git; /etc/gitconfig
More detailed answer can be found in the git man page:
Being able to see seconds in the UNIX ‘ls’ command is particularly useful for comparing/viewing recently created files, because by default ‘ls -l’ will simply show “Today” in the date/time field for such files.
Here’s how you can make ‘ls’ show also the seconds (and not only seconds but also microseconds, for that matter… […]
Using Kdiff3 tool as example action to add to the SendTo menu of Thunar.
Create the following file in ~/.local/share/Thunar/sendto and name it <whatever>.desktop (I named mine ‘kdiff3.desktop’) :
# kdiff3.desktop – Integrate kdiff3 into
# the “Send To” menu.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
TryExec=kdiff3
Exec=kdiff3 %F
There’s various articles and tutorials on the web explaining how to reset your WordPress password using different methods (email, ftp, emergency scripts, mysql, phpmydamin).
Unfortunately a large portion of them, particularly the ones using mysql and phpmyadmin to reset the wordpress password will not work. Or rather – they will work but there is a […]
So you got this brand new (or hopelessly old.. does not really matter for the purposes of this exercise, hehe) computer… It’s got some USB ports, but who knows what they are (USB 3.0? 2.0? 1.0?) ?
How can you check what kind of USB ports does your Linux box have? Alternatively – how can […]
Many of the major Linux distributions come bundled with OpenJDK Java instead of the “standard” Sun Java or — since Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle in 2010 — Oracle Java. One such distro is Fedora, for example.
Open JDK is ok in most cases but there are situations where you need to install the “real” […]
Problem:
A site contains data which is of interest to us. The data is uniformly structured and available for examination by the general public (i.e. no login required) but is not automatically accessible, i.e. viewing it requires repetitive user interaction (such as setting a date range, clicking a ‘submit’ button, etc). In addition, usually the […]
… don’t know what drupal and drush are? Then this post is probably not for you…
Let’s face it – drush is a bitch to install. But we want it. So we have to. And install it we will!
Even though there appears to be extensive info on the topic on drush’s website, installing it […]
