Estava tendo problemas com uma legenda específica no meu DVD Philips DVP642K quando finalmente descobri que a legenda estava utilizando  caracteres de final de linha no estilo Unix (usa somente o LF) ao invés de CR+LF usado no windows.

É mais uma limitação do Philips DVP642K com as legendas, o caracter de fim de linha tem de ser no estilo Windows.

Então lembrei do tal comando unix2dos, mas no meu debian sid (sidux), o comando não existia. Como sempre utilizei o apt-cache mas dessa vez sem sucesso

apt-cache search unix2dos

Procurando no Google encontro a resposta perfeita. Procure o pacote Flip no debian e está tudo resolvido.

Isso mesmo, o flip faz exatamente o mesmo serviço do unix2dos e dos2unix no debian. Fica aí mais uma dica.

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I’m facing a problem with one specific subtitle in my DVD Philips DVP642K when, finally, I discovered that this subtitle are using line endings in Unix format (that uses only LF) instead of CR+LF used in Windows format.

This is one more limitation of DVP642K w/ subtitles, this DVD can only read subtitles if you use a subtitle with windows line end format.

So I remembered that I can use a unix2dos command, but in my Debian sid (Sidux) this command doesn’t exists. As always I’m used to use:

apt-cache search unix2dos

But without sucess this time. The solution was to search in Google and as almost always I found the perfect solution. I have to use Flip package and it’s done.

Yes, that’s it, flip does exactly the same thing that unix2dos and dos2unix does. So if you need this command (dos2unix or unix2dos) in Debian just look for Flip package.

Sidux is Debian Sid with some fixes and modifications, see more information in www.sidux.com .

After some months using only sidux in my Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop, I’m very very happy with it.

I always  like to be using bleeding edge software, sidux put me very closer in this aspect.

System is very responsible, fast and use less memory than my old Kubuntu 9.04. I think that the real problem in this case is the Xorg/drivers used in Kubuntu (so this bug isn’t ubuntu fault), but using bleeding edge software even in this case are good .

I’m really excited to see the next version of sidux 2009-03, but i don’t need to be worried with it because sidux is rolling release( I never did so many “dist-upgrade” ‘s before ;-D ).

Did you missed a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill your X ??

No problem, here’s how-to enable this feature again:

wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap

This link also show another alternative using SysRq Keys.

This software can plot graphical data with many indicators, and have much more features that I, as beginner, don’t use yet……

Do you know another good stockmarket software ??  Please, let me know, write a comment !

Nesse ano de 2009 a Receita Federal disponibilizou uma versão em java do software de Imposto de Renda…

Usando o Kubuntu / Ubuntu precisei mudar um link simbólico para que o software de envio(ReceitaNet) não falhe.

Primeiramente é bom verificar a versão do java para ver se o procedimento é necessário.

$java -version

Verifique se a versão instalada é a da Sun ou OpenJDK. O software da receita só funciona corretamente se a VM for a da Sun.

No meu caso já tinha as 2 versões instaladas mas tive que mudar um link simbólico.

$cd /etc/alternatives
$sudo mv java java_old
$sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java java

Pronto agora o link simbólico que apontava para o OpenJDK aponta para o java da Sun(caso o pacote não esteja instalado o nome do pacote é sun-java6-jre).

I use KDE as my primary desktop Window Manager but i’m always looking for a better, faster and more efficient solution that fit’s me.

Recently I found some simple but very customizable Window Manager, Openbox. While I cannot configure and customize the Openbox, i will use this with KDE.

Yes, I can change the default Window manager of KDE (KWin) to Openbox ! You know what ??  This look’s very good. My desktop are much cleaner and a little bit faster than before.

For now when I use only Openbox, i use PyPanel too.

More Information:

http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Main_Page

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox

http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/

More information to solve this problem could be found in:

http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Here, I’ll show a *interim* solution.

First use the xev. Press the key you want to know the keycode.

In case of slash key in my laptop I found keycode 105.

Create a file named .xmodmaprc in your home with this content:

keycode 105 = slash question degree

After this you should run “xmodmap .xmodmaprc”, in this example.

Now it works ……….. ///////// ??????

You can correct this by downloading QT Curve package.

Another good thing to do is download Kfirefox Theme, this integrate your Firefox to KDE 4 Oxygen Theme (http://ramonantonio.net/kde-firefox/).

But you can include most common packages by manually installing, more details see Ubuntu Wiki page: