Music players on Linux – the poor mans random song player.

If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you are doing too many things, then lot of times you would feel that probably stopping the Music player might help. But then Linux is all about alternatives. So, there is a command line player called mpg123, which does not use so much CPU. But what about playlist 🙂

Ignore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.

CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂

export FIGNORE=CVS:~:.o:.svn
bind 'set match-hidden-files off'

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convert word document to html

First install the required package:

sudo yum install wv

Description:

Description : Wv is a program that understands the Microsoft Word 6/7/8/9

binary file format and is able to convert Word

documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser.

And here is the list of the programs that this utility provides:

/usr/bin/wvAbw
/usr/bin/wvCleanLatex
/usr/bin/wvConvert
/usr/bin/wvDVI
/usr/bin/wvDocBook
/usr/bin/wvHtml
/usr/bin/wvLatex
/usr/bin/wvMime
/usr/bin/wvPDF
/usr/bin/wvPS
/usr/bin/wvRTF
/usr/bin/wvSummary
/usr/bin/wvText
/usr/bin/wvVersion
/usr/bin/wvWare
/usr/bin/wvWml

So, if you want to convert a doc file to html just do:

symlinks -delete all invalid soft links in Linux/Fedora

First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed :

sudo yum install symlinks

and here is the description:

Description : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.

Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks

which point to nonexistent files.  Symlinks can also automatically

convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.

Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining

symlinks on your system.

and the help for the same:

unable to browse windows network with samba4

I use Fedora 17 on my work laptop and thus need to connect to windows share sometimes. After I upgraded to Fedora 17 some time, I was unable to browse the windows network. I would get all kind of errors and warnings and tried everything that I knew about Samba to fix the issue. Tried searching through all the forums to figure out what was wrong but nothing helped. And suddenly today I resolved it and guess how:

pigz -parallel gzip

Here is a short description of pigz:

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip,
is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits
multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.

And for the installation:

sudo yum install pigz

With pigz, if you don’t have many things running on your multi processor machine then you will see a significant improvement when you are gzipping the files.

visio support comes to Linux with loads of new features of LibreOffice.

LibreOffice 3.5 was released few days back with loads of features and improvements. Most bragged about feature should be capability to read visio diagrams. You can read the full list of features here. And here are some interesting features:

• Better UI for header/footer handling. Easily add header or footers. Quickly see what is edited with new changing text boundaries. Quickly edit or remove headers and footers without going through page styles formatting. (Cédric Bosdonnat)
• New faster built-in grammar checker for English and several other languages. (László Németh)
• New multi-line input bar in Calc. The arrow-control at the end of the toolbar allows to switch this on/off.  (Anurag Jain, Noel Power)
• Import filter for Microsoft Visio documents. (Fridrich Štrba, Eilidh McAdam, Valek Filippov)
• Custom Shapes import was greatly enhanced, many bugs were fixed and new presets implementation added. (Radek Doulik)
• and many more…

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