Solution: Converting flac to mp3 advanced (supports drag ‘n drop)
My short solution to convert flac to mp3 caught a lot of attention, and uncovered a demand for a more sophisticated solution. Therefore, after all the scripts posted in the comments, I decided to go on and write an extensive script that should be able to offer all the requested functionality (and more). This post contains a script and installation instructions to allow you to convert both individual files and directories, keep the tags of the files fully intact and enjoy an easy-to-use drag 'n drop interface. read more
Solution: Getting a Gravis GamePad Pro to work on Linux
After a whole afternoon of struggling, I finally found how to get a Gravis GamePad Pro to work correctly (with all ten buttons enabled) on Linux. Because this took me so much effort and the information on it was so scattered and incomplete, I decided to break the frozenness of Linux Tutorial Blog and write a post about it. read more
Solution: Preventing damage after a system lockup
No matter how stable the Linux kernel is, things like hardware failures can still lock up your system quite effectively. If you ever encounter a case like that, rebooting is pretty much the only option. However, there is rebooting and rebooting. This solution describes a way to reboot your system that will do things like terminating all processes, syncing the remounting the disks, in order to prevent damage as much as possible. This can save you a lot of fscking and data loss. read more
Solution: Creating an mpeg with mencoder that plays on Windows Media Player
This solution contains some options for the mencoder command that will result in an mpeg video file that will play on pretty much all players, even Windows Media Player. read more
Solution: Converting flac to mp3
Sometimes you need to convert a load of flac files to mp3's, for example when wanting to listen them on your mp3 player. This solution contains a single line of bash that'll convert all flac files in the current directory to mp3's, keeping the flac files. read more
Solution: Resetting your screen resolution with xrandr
I recently discovered a very useful tool: xrandr. This command allows you to reset your screen resolution, which comes in very handy when some buggy app changes you screen resolution and doesn't set it back. It saves logging out and in again or even having to use Ctrl + Alt + Backspace! read more
Solution: Converting line breaks
Linux text files and Windows text files differ from each other in an important aspect. They have a different way to indicate the end of a line. Sometimes, when opening a text file on Linux, you see a ^M here and there. This means that the text file contains Windows-like line breaks. This solution describes how to convert a Windows-like text file to a Linux-like one, and the other way around. read more
