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  • 10th January 2008
    • By Mohd Shakir
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    Change MP3′s ID3 tag using Kid3

    If previously I’ve been posting about changing file’s name based on it’s metainfo, this time I’m gonna talk about the opposite, specifically in changing MP3′s ID3 tag using Kid3. The package is installable in Ubuntu / Debian; shakir@gutsy ~ $ sudo apt-get install kid3 After launching the program, add files that we want to change [...]

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  • 10th January 2008
    • By Mohd Shakir
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    Easy SSH tunnel with gSTM

    At one time we might need to bypass the firewall, and at another time we might need to secure / encrypt our connection, and for that we normally set up tunnel in SSH. Setting up tunnel itself is fairly easy, yet there are programs  to make it even easier. I’ve previously been introduced to gSTM [...]

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  • 9th January 2008
    • By Mohd Shakir
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    Batch rename files with Krename

    When I was previously recovering lost files of my home folder, I wrote scripts to automatically rename recovered files based on their meta info so that I don’t need to go through them one by one. That worked for me at that time, but I must say it was quite a tedious exercise, as there [...]

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  • 7th January 2008
    • By Mohd Shakir
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    Set up dual monitor in Linux

    I’ve just bought ViewSonic VA2226w from Lowyat, and has been able to use it in dual monitor mode with my XPS M1330 (nvidia based) and Kubuntu. The ViewSonic that I bought is a 22" LCD monitor with resolutions up to 1680×1050 (only just as high as my 15.2" Inspiron 6000′s screen).. I was using nvidia-config [...]

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  • 4th January 2008
    • By Mohd Shakir
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    Recover lost / corrupted GRUB (MBR) entry

    Often time the Master Boot Record (MBR) is also lost / corrupted when the we’re having problem with the partition table, and so here I extend my previous post on recovering lost partition table using the Ubuntu Live CD. First of all, let’s mount the related stuff; ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /media/ ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ [...]

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