I've been given a form to fill out as a PDF. It is not a fillable PDF, it's just a file that I'm expected to print out, fill in by hand, and scan back in. Is there something available in the software center that will let me type text on top of a PDF?
After adding the ppa and apt-getting plexmediaserver, it briefly said something like "running media server". Then disappeared.
root@host:/etc# ps aux |grep -i plex
root 8757 0.0 0.3 4192 752 pts/1 S+ 12:11 0:00 grep --color=auto -i plex
root@host:/etc# lynx --dump http://localhost:32400/manage/index.html
Looking up localhost:32400
Making HTTP connection to localhost:32400
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost:32400/manage/index.html
I recently upgraded my desktop mac to Precise and now can't get past the Ubuntu 12.04 splash page. The splash freezes with Ubuntu and the dots turning from white to orange forever.
This is when I choose 3.2.0-generic from the grub menu. If I choose to load up older kernels, I still get the same thing.
How can I make my computer finish booting again?
I'm able to ssh into the machine and poke around, but the actual screen freezes at the splash.
I recently upgraded my desktop mac to Precise and now can't get past the Ubuntu 12.04 splash page. The splash freezes with
[ 19.931097] b32-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode16_mimo.fw" not found
[ 19.9311126] b32-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
written on it
This is when I choose 3.2.0-generic from the grub menu. If I choose to load up older kernels, I still get the same thing.
How can I make my computer finish booting again?
I'm able to ssh into the machine and poke around, but the actual screen freezes at the splash.
The firmware error is now gone ,but I still can't get past the splash screen
I type dvorak, but I don't like to confuse other users by having it be a system-wide default.
I have a script that runs setxbmap dvorak that I can call when I want dvorak and likewise another script that runs setxbmap us when I want qwerty.
For X, that's fine. How do I get this behavior in the real console (Ctrl-Alt-F3)?
i.e. how can I change the console keymap to dvorak without setting a system-wide default. Having to sudo to do it is fine, but it can't be the default keymap for any console user.
Resources like this and this seem to be explaining how to permanently alter the system but I need to change it on the fly temporarily.
In BSD this was possible by using wsconsctl.
I can plug headphones into the headphone jack, run alsamixer and see that I've just got 00 instead of M meaning the headphone jack is not muted. But no sound comes out.
Asciiquarium is a perl script that requires Term::Animation. What are the appropriate hoops to jump through to get this cpan module into an ubuntu perl install?
apt-cache search animation |grep -i perl
doesn't seem to find anything like libterm-animation-perl to just apt-get blindly.
What do I sudo apt-get as prerequisite to be able to make install sndpeek. Also, there are three options, make linux-alsa, make linux-oss, and make linux-jack. Which is appropriate to current out-of-the-box ubuntu?
I'm aware of anki and mnemosyne, but not of any way to get them to run in a terminal.
I am asking exactly this question for the same reason, but would like to archive dvds as small, low quality video, while preserving the menu choosing experience.
I would like to rip my dvds to something that has the same menus but whose video is in a much more compressed format. I do not want to copy a dvd to an .iso image.
How can this be done in the most automatic (hopefully CLI) way possible? Any format is fine so long as playback on linux is possible.
I first asked "How do I convert a video to all formats neccesary for Video For Everybody" on Super User. The answer involved compiling the latest ffmpeg.
Later, I asked "How do I strip the metadata from a quicktime file" here on Ask Ubuntu. The answer to that doesn't work for me, because now I've got the latest ffmpeg compiled in my Ubuntu.
So how do I convert to all the formats necessary using Ubuntu's old ffmpeg (or mencoder or some other CLI answer)?
My camera takes .mov files as movies. How can I remove all metadata from them so I can feel confident sharing them on youtube without accidentally sharing when/where they were filmed, what type of camera I have, etc. A command line one-liner is nice, but if it's too confusing, a GUI program would be better.
I'd like to compile imgcnv so that I can chop up images for panojs. imgcnv's INSTALL directions are extremely curt:
$ pwd
/home/$USER/src/imgcnv
$ ls
build-imgcnv-cygwin.sh INSTALL matlab msvc2010_bimread src_bimread
build-imgcnv-linux.sh libs msvc2008 msvc2010_gobjects src_gobjects
build-imgcnv-macosx.sh libsrc msvc2008_bimread readme.txt testing
changelog.txt LICENCE.txt msvc2008_gobjects scripts
generated Makefile msvc2010 src
$ cat INSTALL
Welcome to imgcnv. A utlity for reading and converting
biological image formats.
1. To install just execute,
$ make install
2. Sit back
I downloaded a fresh 1.52 directory.
I've already got the latest qt4-make, but I can't successfully make:
$ make
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [../imgcnv] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/$USER/src/imgcnv/src'
#(cd src; qmake imgcnv.pro)
#(cd src; make)
I'm on 32-bit Oneiric on an intel machine (hp 6220 laptop)
I've tried everything in
apt-cache search webcam |sort -u
and everything has some problem. Correcting any syntax mistakes, showing how to use a "GUI only" from the CLI or a good ffmpeg/mencoder/vlc one-liner would answer my question. Or since I know how to make ffmpeg take a short MJPEG, showing how to strip off the first jpeg would work, I guess. Still, this ought to be more straightforward than that.
$ camgrab
/dev/video0: no v4l device
(camgrab probably doesn't handle v4l2)
$ fswebcam --list-inputs
--- Opening /dev/video0...
Trying source module v4l2...
/dev/video0 opened.
--- Available inputs:
0: Camera 1
No input was specified, using the first.
Adjusting resolution from 384x288 to 352x288.
--- Capturing frame...
Premature end of JPEG file
Captured frame in 0.00 seconds.
--- Processing captured image...
There are unsaved changes to the image.
$ fswebcam --input 0 boo.jpg
--- Opening /dev/video0...
Trying source module v4l2...
/dev/video0 opened.jjjjjjjjj
Adjusting resolution from 384x288 to 352x288.
--- Capturing frame...
Premature end of JPEG file
Captured frame in 0.00 seconds.
--- Processing captured image...
Writing JPEG image to 'boo.jpg'.
produces this
$ motion
is beyond me.
$ uvccapture -oboo.jpg
$ file boo.jpg
boo.jpg: data
$ qiv -t boo.jpg
Unable to read file: Failed to load image 'boo.jpg': Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x8f 0x5a)
not really an image.
$ /usr/bin/vgrabbj -d /dev/video0 -f boo.jpg
Could not open configfile /usr/etc/vgrabbj.conf, ignoring
Reading image from /dev/video0
produces this
$ webcamd
RTFM, missing template (/home/$USER/.webcamd/index_up.html)
$ man webcamd |cat
WEBCAMD(1) WEBCAMD(1)
NAME
webcamd - Take a image from your webcam
SYNOPSIS
webcamd [ start | stop | refresh ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the webcamd daemon.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original pro‐
gram does not have a manual page.
webcamd is a program that take images from your webcam and put it on a ftp server
on a local (web) directory
OPTIONS
start Start the daemon.
stop Stop the daemon.
refresh Take a shot !
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Julien Danjou <[email protected]> for the Debian
system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute
and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
2002 april 21 WEBCAMD(1)
$ webcamd start
RTFM, missing template (/home/$USER/.webcamd/index_up.html)
$ webcamd refresh
RTFM, missing template (/home/$USER/.webcamd/index_up.html)
webcam seems to demand that I set a config file to ftp the images somewhere and seems to do nothing by default
$ /usr/bin/webcam
reading config file: /home/$USER/.webcamrc
video4linux webcam v1.5 - (c) 1998-2002 Gerd Knorr
grabber config:
size 320x240 [none]
input (null), norm (null), jpeg quality 75
rotate=0, top=0, left=0, bottom=240, right=320
- GUI only
- camorama
- cheese
- kamoso
- luvcview
I've been running apache2 for ages on my ubuntu server without SSL. Now that I want to have some directories delivered by SSL, I can't find any straightforward tutorials that were written recently. The best I've found is http://vanemery.com/Linux/Apache/apache-SSL.html but it tells me to put stuff in /etc/httpd/conf I don't want to guess that that should translate to /etc/apache2/conf because guessing based on old tutorials has ruined my web serving before.
I'd like turning sticky keys on and off to be done from a script. This is especially helpful to those not using kde/gnome/xfce.
I've got a script that records 10 minute videos from a webcam to
- video1.mp4
- video2.mp4
- video3.mp4
- video4.mp4
Then records over video1 again in rotation. I'd like one user to be able to view these in winamp or itunes by having a playlist with the four of them on repeat.
(This is my way of getting around the many hours of figuring out how to actually livestream from a webcam with VLC).
I don't see any examples of things like icecast being used for video, and I don't see any mentions of secure streaming.
My question is, is there any way to have these videos be seen securely? I can do things like https on my server, but I don't have great access to the user's machine, so just sharing a directory by samba or sshfs isn't much of an option.
This says to use /dev/dsp as the audio input. But I don't have a /dev/dsp I can find my webcam's mic in /dev/snd as /dev/snd/by-id/usb-Dynex_Dynex_1.3MP_Webcam-02
I'd like to be able to do this:
$ pwd
/home/$USER/music/ripped_music/Monty_Python-Instant_Record_Collection
$ ls
01.The_Executive_Intro.mp3
...
16.The_Lumberjack_Song.mp3
$ mystery_command_or_script .
$ ls
01.The_Executive_Intro.mp3
...
16.The_Lumberjack_Song.mp3
album_cover.jpg
$
Somewhere in the guts of Rhythmbox, totem, etc. this is being done. I'd like to be able to do it myself.
I don't need help actually writing a script. I'd really just like to know if there's something like CDDB for album covers. (Scraping albumart.org is the current working solution.)
Neither iwconfig nor iwlist seem to be able to do this for me.