Tonight while smanettavo a bit of Sid, the strangest thing happened to me, all of a sudden I do not know how and why, not

I was able to get root privileges. The error in the terminal was as follows:

(Gedit: 4397): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~ /. Gnome2 directory: No such file or directory
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/ root/.gnome2 / ': No such file or directory

After a bit of concussions are able to understand and solve the problem, which was given by a change (I do not know how it is

occurred) in / etc / passwd, where root is found in / home / root instead in / root. At this point I could only give a:

Ctrl-Alt-F1

nano / etc / passwd

and line dedicated to root delete the entry / home. I hope it's useful to someone. Enjoi

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S egnalo these four excellent programs for mass rename photos, folders, mp3 based on their ID3 tags, etc.etc.

All quest. programs possess a very simple and intuitive graphical interface. Three are in the repository:

pyrenamer
gprename
Krename

The fourth is called METAMORPHOSE a very powerful and flexible program written in Python. On the site you will find the deb package.

To ask if it is not already installed python-python-wxgtk2.6 wxtools.

apt-get install python-python-wxgtk2.6 wxtools

Unless you want to resort to something of the kind , all four are recommended.

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O ne of the difficulties in moving from Windows to GNU-Linux is the fear of not having programs to which you are accustomed, or at least equivalent. This is nothing more than an urban legend, carried out by those who have an absolute monopoly and would like the death of open source. Course of a professional who uses Photoshop to work rather than Gimp, there is nothing to say, but all the others who use Photoshop to correct your own photographs or red eyes, I laugh, and make me think .... that if they had to buy it, the cocks that they would have used. The software you pay for, given that there are people behind that works there, or should rely all'opensource that it has so many programs, not forgetting that free does not mean free, because in this world there are professional programs for a fee. Below are some examples from LinuxALT .

Windows software and similar / alternative Gnu-Linux

3D Home Architect

3D Studio Max

ACDSee

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Audition

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe PageMaker

Adobe PhotoAlbum

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premier

Ant Movie Catalog

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)

APC PowerChute

CDex

Collectorz

Dreamweaver

DVDShrink

Everest

Finish

Flash

Fontographer

Forte Agent

FruityLoops

Google Desktop Search

Guitar Pro

iTunes

Legacy Family Tree

LimeWire

Meal Master

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Frontpage

Microsoft HyperTerminal

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Media Center

Microsoft Money

Microsoft Office

Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft Outlook (Express)

Microsoft Powerpoint

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Windows Media Center

Microsoft Word

mIRC

Mp3tag

MSN Messenger

Mudbox

Nero Burning Rom

NetMeeting

NetStumbler

NewzCrawler

Notepad

OrangeCD Catalog

Origin

Partition Magic

Picasa

Pro Tools

Quicken

Soulseek

SoundForge

TeXnicCenter

Total Commander

Traktor DJ

Videora

Winamp

Windows Media Player

Windows Movie Maker

WinIso

WinMerge

WinTV

WS_FTP

Zbrush

ZoneAlarm

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Debian repository for official and extra, just the bare minimum. To import keys, look at the examples

at bottom of page.

Debian Lenny (stable)

# Lenny (Stable)
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

# Security updates (lenny)
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny / updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny / updates main contrib non-free

Backports repository:

# Backports
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Repositories:

# Multimedia
lenny main deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org
lenny main deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org

# Skype
stable non-free deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/

# Opera
lenny non-free deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/

Debian Squeeze (testing)

# Squeeze
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

# Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze / updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze / updates main contrib non-free

Repositories:

# Multimedia
http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main deb
http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main deb-src

# Opera
http://deb.opera.com/opera/ non-free deb squeeze

# Skype
stable non-free deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/

Debian Sid (unstable):

SID #
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

Repositories:

# Multimedia
sid main deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org
sid main deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org

# Skype
stable non-free deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/

# Opera
sid non-free deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/

Debian Experimental:

# Experimental
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

Here are the commands to import the keys:

Key Backports repository:

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv 16BA136C

if you use sudo:

gpg --armor --export 16BA136C | sudo apt-key add -

if you use root:

gpg --armor --export 16BA136C | apt-key add -


Key Multimedia repository:

gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 07DC563D1F41B907


if you use sudo:

gpg --armor --export 07DC563D1F41B907 | sudo apt-key add -

if you use root:

gpg --armor --export 07DC563D1F41B907 | apt-key add -

Key Opera repository:

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key F9A2F76A9D1A0061

gpg --fingerprint F9A2F76A9D1A0061

if you use sudo:

gpg --armor --export F9A2F76A9D1A0061| sudo apt-key add -

if you use root:

gpg --armor --export F9A2F76A9D1A0061| apt-key add -

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On why use Linux instead of Windows, on the pros and cons and the technical aspects and ethical issues, the network has already been widely written. What little was said about it is that being a windows user rather than a linux user, may have relevances from the sexual point of view. This is what has emerged from recent studies done at Columbus University, where they were surveyed a thousand people between men and women, part of the 2 operating systems. Even among the luminaries who took part in these studies was curious to see if there were differences in the level of sex, since among them were users of either OS. They started their studies, bringing together men with women-linux-windows, and vice versa, therefore, men with women-windows-linux, and have begun to study them and follow them step by step in all the moments <amorosi>. After months of study and hard work, we come to the following conclusions: Read the rest of this entry »

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Sometimes some things are forgotten, and thank goodness there's the shell to remember them. I, for example I could not remember the day of the week when I was born, and then I remembered cal.

cal

shows the current month

cal-y

shows the entire year

cal -3

show along with the current month than the previous one and the next one

cal January 1971

I finally gave the month in which I was born, and then I could not remember which day of the week was a Friday Azz are aged, it was better if I did not use cal

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A ll we know what the 'MBR (master boot record), and all of us especially in the beginning we feared, above all, when you installed the kind of os, which costs so much, and does not give you anything, not even a program , nay, one there, notepad.exe. However, as we all know, in 'MBR boot loader is installed and stores the partition table. So in case you sminchiasse, for us would be a waste of time, and also un'incazzatura. So because prevention is better than cure in our help comes to us the dd command, which saves us the first 512 bytes of the disk.

# Dd if = / dev / sda of = ~ / mbr.img bs = 512 count = 1

Et voila. The time now is safe. To check the contents we use:

od-xa mbr.img

To restore it, use this:

mbr.img dd if = of = / dev / sda bs = 512 count = 1

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T here are several graphics applications that allow you to extract the audio tracks on a CD. I use that on my Debian gnome for example I sound juicer by default. They are all very easy to use, but all are nothing more than a graphical front-ends for the program command line cd paranoia This tool, however, is very simple to use. Here are some examples:

cdparanoia-B

extracts all the tracks on the CD, in the form of wav files

cdparanoia-B - 2

extracts only the first 2 songs

Here the manual

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