various howtos
configuration
5/2/08 after update: /usr/share/dvdstyler/buttons/text.xml has been moved to /usr/share/buttons/depricated, and if you adjust the path in the xml dvdstyler file, things work fine
jumppad: don't jump to more than about title 20 or you'll get lost in limbo on generation or get errors
jumppad: don't disable or you won't be able to go anywhere
When you tell it to start ripping:
You can select the output format, ogg was the default, but it will do flac
What format? FLAC is lossless, but I can't hear the difference. between that and ogg 128.
So, I choose OGG 192 as a compromise. This is larger than the 128, but considerably smaller than FLAC
File naming: %n adds track number to keep them in order
Options: create m3u play list, choose relative path and you won't have to remove path information
Downloaded RPM
Full Screen toggle: right ctrl-F, while in full screen mode, get to menu by right ctrl-HOME
As root, yast -i <rpm> file
Added admvrm to the "vboxusers" group through yast->security and users->users->admvrm, check that group
Then run Sun xVM VirtualBox
New: create new VM machine
Click on CD Rom and configure it to read the CD, that way it has a "bootable" medium
+ - Click on network adapters and change the first two
Start the machine, and you will boot from the CD room
Settings are in ~/.VirtualBox. If you blow that away, you start over, and that can be useful.
+ - virtual Vista
Once network connected, it wanted to install some hardware and went to innotek to install usb compatability stuff
Innotek is the original vendor for VirtualBox
Vista also claimed it could not install network hardware, but it did
Set screen resolution to 1024x768, 32 bit color
+ - suse11
Identifiers: You can separate several patterns by semicolons -- gtkpod will determine which one to use by the filename extension given. Artist: %a, album: %A, composer: %c, title: %t, genre: %G, track nr: %T, CD nr: %C, year: %Y, original filename (requires extended information file): %o, current playlist: %p, the character '%': %%.
+ - Printing to a PDF file
Unfortunately, you can't simply print to the "pdf" pipe of "makepdf" because word forces the file name to be ".prn", but you can do the following:
Choose MP530
Choose to print to a file
You will get a "PRN" file
use ps2pdf to convert it to pdf
When Word loses its windows decorations and the window cannot be resized: Window->Arrange All will get it back.
+ - Image Editing: cropping tool
* 0 - Halt the system
* 1 - Single-user mode
* 2 - Multi-user mode (without NFS)
* 3 - Multi-user mode
* 4 - unused
* 5 - Multi-user mode, graphical login
* 6 - Reboot the system
Create command in ~/bin/auto that runs an xterm that ultimately will mount the drive
Personal Settings->KDE Components->File Associations->media->removable_mounted->add
Brows to program in ~/bin/auto
Go to General Tab and click on the icon to change it
Click on OK then Apply to apply changes
Plug the device in, and when the dialog appears, click on configure->choose mounted removable medium and hit the right arrow->click on the wrench and browse the the command under ~/bin/auto that you created. Change the name of the service to suite. CHECK RUN IN TERMINAL. The OK. Click on the icon and choose devices and pick the picture you want. Then you will see your new service in the list on the left. Choose it and hit OK, and it will now be in your list.
cover design
Use shift-select to select elements, ctrl-select does not work, then you can align and group elements with each other
Print cover to PDF and then select the page you want to print to
Nero->New Cover Design->DVD Case
Choose Inlay tab
Select Text Box Tool
Drag cursor on cover and/or whatever to creat text box
Double click to edit and add text
Shift select elements you want to align with each other
Right click and choose align or Object->align
Usually you want to uncheck vertical alignment and center horizontal only
For in "inlay", align text slightly to the right of what looks like center, because you'll be trimming only on the left as noted below
If you do that to multiple objects at once, they will center with each other
PRINT TO A PDF and choose LANDSCAPE MODE (choosing inlay only still won't print just one page)
Print the page you want from the PDF file
Trim on top line only and left only
kino *.mpg
highlighting the first movie, click on the join current and next scenes:
join looks like -><-
continue until all joined
click on export
select OTHER
The default is ffmpeg dual pass with VOB profile. That works. Single pass does too.
NOTE: mpeg does not work, and it seems to be the audio format it chooses, you can see that if you use mpginfo. In any case, you can the mpg output in your DVD, but you won't get any sound.
specify the file name -- OHNE extension
bottom center: click on export
Playing it: mplayer -vo xv -vf rotate file.avi
Convert it to avi: mencoder <input> -ofps 25 -ovc xvid -oac copy -vf scale -zoom -xy 640 -xvidencopts bitrate=700 -vf rotate=1 -o <output>
Combining rotated avai: combinavi script will error out when attempting to convert to mpg, but it will combine the .avi files at least, then use avi2mpeg2 script to convert to an mpg file
convert 00000001.jpg -resize "100x128>" -gravity "South" -pointsize 20 -draw "text 0,6 'Movie'" 00000002.jpg
NOTE: -resize must come before drawing stuff on command line
create a database: mysqladmin -pbelkinwirelessg -u root create my_dvds_development
connect to the database: mysql -pbelkinwirelessg -u root my_dvds_development
"show databases;" list the databases
"use test;" change the database to the "test" database
"show tables;"
"desc tables;" describe the table "tables"
mysql -D messing -u admvrm -h localhost
grant ALL on messing.* to 'admvrm'@'localhost';
revoke ALL on messing.* to 'admvrm'@'localhost';
set password for mysqladmin: mysqladmin -u root password "belkinwirelessg"
log onto mysql as the current user with a password: "mysql -p" would assume current user and prompt for a password
Yast->System->System Services (Runlevel)->Expert Mode, found mysql and specified that the service would start on level 3 and 5
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1000BEVS-_WD-WXEY06375426-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1000BEVS-_WD-WXEY06375426-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1000BEVS-_WD-WXEY06375426-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
//vostro200/images /windows/c/images cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/paperless /windows/c/paperless cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/quicken99 /windows/c/quicken99 cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/recvd /windows/c/recvd cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/mine /windows/c/mine cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/send /windows/c/send cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/software /windows/c/software cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/l_f_drive /windows/l/f_drive cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/l_albums /windows/l/myalbums cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/l_mymusic /windows/l/mymusic cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/l_record /windows/l/myrecordings cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//vostro200/l_soft /windows/l/software cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_martinju_at_vostro200,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//shemp/RR\040Data /windows/shemp_c/rr_data cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_admvrm_at_rr,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//shemp/My\040Projects /windows/shemp_c/my_projects cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_admvrm_at_rr,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//shemp/send /windows/shemp_c/send cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_admvrm_at_rr,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//shemp/rr /windows/shemp_c/rr cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_admvrm_at_rr,uid=admvrm,gid=100
//mobile/recvd /windows/greg/recvd cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials_for_gregs_pc_at_rr,uid=admvrm,gid=100
Was mounting my file on two drives, f: and n: for some reason. The solution was to mount on o: instead, then unmount and mount on n: and no more f: appeared.
Most shapes allow you to simply start typing text and it will put it in the right spot, do the right thing
+ - software diagram -> windows ui
status fields for labels and "hyper links" (use your imagination)
edit box for edit box
blank form for page in browser
buttons: choose "other" and you can then type in any text you want
As you start to add things to the blank form, it's helpful to pull the blank for out of the way and just work on the individual objects themselves first -- without the blank form getting in the way
grouping: in select object mode, band around shapes you want to group, then Shape->grouping->group
aligning objects: in select mode, band around shapes to align, then Tools->Align
Moving objects from one page to the next: Window->Tile and then while viewing multiple pages, drag the object to the new page
+ - Installing as followed went very smoothly. No need to go through extra gyrations as I had to when I installed it on the dellt550, old note links are to the right, however, just in case.
Install MSDN Library, custom install, choose only indexes and two vb things
Registered under "Vern Martin" and Vern Martin Consulting, Inc.
Install VB, allow it to update the Java Virtual Machine
Custom install: uncheck FoxPro
Check register environment variables
After reboot, I was prompted to install MSDN again, I did and selected "re-install" since it detected that it was already installed.
Run it, use ser. no. SE20600-MT-153444, which is the serial no. from the back of the original "Componentone Studio Entererprise 2006" CD
Choose "complete" install
Run MS VB 6.0
Status Local Remote Network
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OK H: \\mx8711\mx8711homedata Microsoft Windows Network
Open h:\rr\my_projects\rr_sanitation\RRSanitation.vbp
In: "/home/admvrm/.cxoffice/win98/desktopdata/cxmenu/Desktop.c^5E3A^5Fwindows^5Fprofiles^5Fcrossover^5FDesktop/R+R"
Copied one of the other desktop items and created R+R
Modifed R+R to run c:/rr/RRSanitation.exe
Put RRSanitation.ini and RRSanitation.exe in ~/.cxoffice/win98/drive_c/rr
Copied all the component one stuff to ~/.cxoffice/win98/drive_c/windows/rr
~ http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/wine-user/config-file#CONFIG-WINE
Change the Picture at the Welcome Screen: Control Panel->Users->Click on the User's picture->Select "Change Picture"
Adding to send to: Start->Run type "sendto". That opens the folder you can drag files to.
+ - install
Run VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.i386.rpm
Have it build for your system
Networking: bridge to eth0 is vrmnet0, eth1 is vmnet2
When prompted with END hit q to quit
Use NAT
Probe unused private network, configured 3 NAT networks:
vmnet8 is a NAT network on private subnet 192.168.224.0.
vmnet3 is a NAT network on private subnet 192.168.197.0.
vmnet4 is a NAT network on private subnet 172.16.71.0.
Request able to use host-only on my machine
vmnet1 is a host-only network on private subnet 192.168.225.0.
The default port : 902 is not free. We have selected a suitable alternative
port for VMware Server use. You may override this value now.
Remember to use this port when connecting to this server.
Please specify a port for remote console connections to use [904]
WARNING: VMware Server has been configured to run on a port different from the
default port. Remember to use this port when connecting to this server.
Shutting down xinetd: done
Starting INET services. (xinetd) done
Configuring the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
Building the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.
Installing the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
Chose to put virtual machine files in /home/vmware_machines
Please enter your 20-character serial number.
Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel:
You cannot power on any virtual machines until you enter a valid serial number.
To enter the serial number, run this configuration program again, or choose
'Help > Enter Serial Number' in the virtual machine console.
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet3 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet3 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet4 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet4 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
The configuration of VMware Server 1.0.6 build-91891 for Linux for this running
kernel completed successfully.
Run vmware
Create new virtual machine
Help->enter serial number->get serial number
9318H-Y4Z6Q-296EM-4U5HR
Networking worked great, but I had trouble with keyboard double striking, even when running a "remote" X session. Plus I could not get out of 800x600 mode in the remote X session.
+ - uninstall