Monthly Archives: May 2010

I’ll be extremely busy the next few weeks!

Posted on May 31, 2010 by SoCRaT

Well, I’m preparing for my wedding next month, which means I’m extremely busy, which means that I’ll be writing too little posts in the next few weeks!

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Hello world!

Posted on May 27, 2010 by SoCRaT

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is the first post after moving from blogspot.

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New Primary HDD: A full Ubuntu backup & restoration experience (Draft)

Posted on May 26, 2010 by SoCRaT

Steps: Use “SystemRescueCD” “fsarchiver savefs” “fsarchiver restfs” mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot  #skip this if don’t have a separate /boot partition grub2-install –root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda Operation Stats: Original Disk Space used on the HDD to backup: 45 GB Size of … Continue reading →

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Install Bluecurve theme on Ubuntu box

Posted on May 18, 2010 by SoCRaT

Here’s the way to install Redhat’s most famous theme “Bluecurve”:It worked me on Ubuntu 10.04 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=342060

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convert files from one encoding to another using iconv

Posted on May 17, 2010 by SoCRaT

I have subtitles that was written on M$ windows that were saved using WINDOWS-1256 encoding and were not working on my Linux box. I found this command to convert from one encoding to another: iconv -f WINDOWS-1256 <Ice_age_3.sub> Ice_age_3_utf8.sub

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