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How To: Install Nvidia 64-Bit Linux Driver on Ubuntu – Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Beta from linuxcrypt on Vimeo.

So I’ve been reading about some of the new features in kdenLive and I am pretty stoked to see some forward development for video editing on Linux.  Some of the new features include:

Main Features:
* Capture video from your camcorder, webcam or screen
* Mix a large number of different formats (depending on your FFmpeg install): mpeg, flash, mp3, ogg, png, jpeg, dv, hdv, …
* See the result of your work (effects and transitions) in realtime
* Export your work in several formats (hdv, dv, mpeg, …)
* Create titles, slideshows and more

For those not familiar with this application, Kdenlive is an open source multi track video editor based on the MLT video framework and FFmpeg.

So how do we get this baby installed in ubuntu as there isn’t a “.deb” package on their website, and the current package in the main repo is on 0.5? Well, if you cruise over to the Wiki Documentation, you will find a nice tutorial written by Mads Dydensborg. The tutorial did work for me, and I am successfully running 0.7. The only thing I couldn’t figure out is why it installed a sleu of KDE apps and made launchers for them? This can be resolved by unselecting them in the alacarte tool. Below are the steps for installing.

1) Add a repo to your sources.list

• echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

2) Get a load of extra packages

• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gtk-qt-engine-kde4 bzip2 kdebase kommander subversion g++ cmake pkg-config kdelibs5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxml2-dev

3) Make a new directory

• mkdir kdenlive

4) Move into the new directory

• cd kdenlive

5) Download the script

• wget http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-files/85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr.bz2

6) Extract, rename and make executable the script

• `bunzip2 85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr.bz2 && mv 85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr && chmod +x kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr

7) Sort out a path by typing:

• export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde4/bin

Run the script

• kmdr-executor kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr

9) follow the instructions on-screen. Press “Cancel” after success.

10) In file browser (nautilus) navigate to the /kdenlive directory which you created in step 3

11) click “kdenlive_start” and you are in business.

12) Use alacarte (sudo apt-get install alacarte) to add ~/yourpath/kdenlive/kdenlive_start to your menu.

I hope this helps with getting people to trry out publishing their videos on Linux!

Josh

This video demonstrates why you should change your default bluetooth headset pin. This user, “brandon90″ from Wyoming demonstrates how he can eavesdrop a conversation even if the bluetooth is not connected to a phone call. You can still listen in on the microphone, and even inject arbitrary audio to the headset.

He uses a linux laptop, with a Bluetooth dongle, a high gain DB antenna and his Nokia phone to do this. Watch the video below for the demonstration. The tool he is running is called “car whisperer” which can be installed on any linux laptop.

enjoy…

First off, I want to thank Dan Trevino from the Florida LoCo team for helping me get this working. I was beginning to rip my hair out and cry like a little baby, (F this linux crap, I’m buying a mac) moment. So for a long time I have used “rippedwire” to rip my “legally” purchased DVD’s out to my network so I can stream them. If you haven’t heard of rippedwire, RippedWire is a graphical front end to HandBrake, the open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

It works just fine on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I was having mono dependency errors however installing it on Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS release. Below are the instructions for installing this (BAMF) application.

First, download rippedwire DEB package to your home directory.

$ sudo apt-get install mono-mcs

$ sudo apt-get install mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2

$ cd to your home directory of where the deb package is i.e. cd /home/username

$ sudo dpkg -i –force-overwrite –ignore-depends=mono –ignore-depends=mono-devel handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb

**UPDATED Instructions

The instructions should be modified to be:
1. sudo apt-get install mono-mcs mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb

Download the monofix package here 

I should also point out… if you’ve already installed with the ‘old’ instructions you can ‘fix’ your system by doing:
1. sudo apt-get install -f
This will remove handbrakegtk
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Ok, now you are ready to party like a rockstar.

Go to Applications > Sound & Video> HandBrakeGTK

Load a DVD, you click on the source button, select your movie and desired settings, and rip away, like you see below as I’m ripping Snatch!

Thanks again Dan !

This how to will show you how to install the ATI driver and Compiz Fusion. It will demonstrate as well enabling the desktop cube. This does not use the xgl server.

Ubuntu – How To Install ATI + Compiz Fusion from linuxcrypt on Vimeo.

Screenlets is a pretty cool little widgets application. It allows you have a similar interface which is available in Mac OSX. If you are running Ubuntu, there is a deb package available for it here.

Below is a screenshot of some it’s uses, and you also have more widgets you can download and use. It’s more of an eye candy utility than a functionality tool for me. But who doesn’t like eye candy?

cheers,

~j

So, today I was playing around with some different emerald themes, and to apply it I logged out and logged back in. I am very religious about closing my applications before logging out or shutting down a system. So I found it interesting that I still received a firefox error upon returning to my desktop. Error: “Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system”.

Well, is that so? I can only assume that maybe while trying to apply the new theme to the application it hung, or perhaps my user processes were not completely closed when I logged out. In any case, below is a screen shot of the error:

Well, for those who would rather not restart their system, there is an easy way to resolve this.

Solution:

Open a terminal, and run the following command:

$ps aux | grep firefox

What this does, is it asks the system to list the running process. Using the “grep” command is just applying a filter for “firefox”. IF you notice the second to last process is my firefox process. the PID or “process ID” is “5719″. The first column will list what user is running the process, and the second column will show the process ID. Now we can just kill the process by running another command in the temrinal of

$sudo kill -9 5719

What this is doing is telling the system to just kill the process, the equivalent of “end task” in Windows. You should now be able to just relaunch Firefox without any errors.

To see all the processes running just run a:

$ps aux

from your command line and you can see all the processes running and the corresponding information for each.

cheers,

~j

I like it when I find utilities to make the easy things easy. Ubuntu Tweak is just that kind of application. It’s a simple download / install, and then you are off configuring the little nuances on your system.

The “Computer” tab allows you to quickly view all of your system information. It will list the host name, distribution, kernel version, platform, CPU, Memory, current user and environment information.

Ubuntu Tweak allows the end user to easily change what starts at bootup . login, modify security settings as well as system and user interface configurations. This tool is great to have in your system tool apps and I would recommend it for the new user, as well as the experienced. Like I said, I like it when the easy things are easy.

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So if you have installed Ubuntu server, you know that you will be running installs from the command line. The best way to do this is:

“sudo apt-get install openssh-server” (without quotes)

I just used openssh-server as it does not come installed out of the box with the 6.06 LTS release which is what I run on my server. Well, any package you try to install, it will inevitably lookto install it from the CD-ROM first because that’s the first source in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This is an easy fix. All you need to do is open the file, comment out the cd-rom source, save and update. I will show you how. Just do the following from your console:

$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Use your down arrow key until your cursor is over the “d” for

Now, press the letter “i” this will put you in insert mode. Input a pound sign “#” to comment it out.

Then press the “ESC” on your keyboard, this will take you out of insert mode.

Then save the file, there are two ways to do this, I just press “SHIFT ZZ” So holding down the “shift” key, then I press the letter “z” twice.

The other method is to  press “ESC” then press “SHIFT :” then enter the letter “w” then a bang “!” To write the file

Now you want to run an update as you have changed the file, so run a

$ sudo apt-get update

Then you are good to go, it won’t look for a cd-rom anymore when you install applications via “apt-get install”.

~j

I just got a chance to install and configure the official Ubuntu 7.10 release and I’m lovin’ it like McDonald’s. With any fresh distro load there are some things you’ll want to install to customize your desktop. One of first things you want to do is install the ‘ubuntu-restricted-extras’ and ‘w32codecs’ from Synaptic Package Manager. This new release comes with compiz-fusion already installed, all you need to do to customize it is load the ‘compiz-settings-manager’ from Synaptec. Another cool piece of software you might want to install is an application doc/launcher such as Avant or Cairo. I’m starting to like Cairo better than Avant now so I’ll post a link to the cairo-dock deb packages, you can get them here (you want to load the dock and plugins packages). After you load cairo-dock, I noticed it doesn’t show up in the menu but you can launch it by pressing Alt+F2 and type ‘cairo-dock’ in the box. You can drag items from the Applications menu into the dock. If you want to make this launch automatically when you log in go to system -> preferences -> sessions, then on the startup tab click ‘Add’, for name type in ‘cairo dock’ and for command type ‘cairo-dock’ and click ok. Then next time you log in it should launch for you. If your a gnome user like I am you can do some more customizing by going to http://www.gnome-look.org/ to find some cool themes, backgrounds, icons and junk like that.