How to install Calibre in ubuntu 14.04 with automatic updates
Calibre is one of the best e-book reader s and library management applications for the linux platform and also other platforms. It comes with a huge amount of features with few that are shown on the...
View ArticleHow to crack password protected rar files
This is a short and simple guide on how to recover the password of a rar archive. You should only use this on your own archives and not to be used for illegal purposes. Firstly we will create a test...
View ArticleGetting Cheap storage for your Plex Media server on AWS
Its been a while since I put up the guide on how to get get Plex Media Server running on AWS, and since then I have had a lot of questions regarding how to get cheap storage for this service. Enter...
View ArticleHow to Install The Newsbeuter RSS Feedreader on Ubuntu
I recently had a dig around to look for a good CLI based RSS feedreader for Ubuntu and managed to stumble accross this great little piece of software called Newsbeuter. It is a very easy piece of...
View ArticleHandbrake 0.10.0 released
Handbrake is an open source video transcoder which will run on most platforms including. Windows Mac Linux It has support or presets built in for fast access including. ipod ipad iphone and iphone...
View ArticleThe Linux filesystem – Who is using all my storage?
I have a VPS which has been running smoothly for over a year now. But recently the available space has been slowly decreasing. I deleted large files such as media files etc, which I thought may have...
View ArticleUsing GNU screen
Screen is a great program to use when connecting to your remote server or vps. As mentioned on the website. Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several...
View ArticlePrinting Linux man files to ps and pdf format
Reading Linux man files on your screen can be fine most of the time, but it can be nice to have a nice formatted print copy of your most commonly used man files. A few different methods can be used....
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How to install the latest version of ffmpeg onto Ubuntu 14.10 and other deb...
Just a quick post to show how to get the latest version of ffmpeg. Just incase you dont know what it is, here is a snippet from the website. FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode,...
View ArticleInstalling the latest kernel on Ubuntu 14.10
A new release of the Ubuntu Kernel was released. v4.0-rc4-vivid. If you follow these simple steps you should be able to easily get it installed onto your system. For 32bit systems follow these steps....
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