Install Bluecurve theme on Ubuntu box

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

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 Ahmed Tawfik

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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Display CPU Temperature Graphically using a Panel Applet in Ubuntu

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

“sudo apt-get install sensors-applet”

Right-click on any panel and add the new applet, then easily configure it to display the temperature, fan speed, HDD temperature …etc

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know the return value of a native (c) program in linux

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

Hi folks
use this command:
echo $?
to know the return value of a native program in Linux.
try it yourself:

scenario 1: 

more 
echo $?  #(watch the result, it will be 1, which means unsuccess)

scenario 2: 

echo "hello world" > file
more file
echo $?  #(watch the result, it will be 0, means success)

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Create NTFS Partition with gparted in Ubuntu

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Ahmed Tawfik

The “ntfs” option is dimmed by default, to enable it you should install the necessary package: “sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs”

That’s it, just re-open gparted and you’re ready to go 🙂

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