Tag: Linux

Linux OCR with Tesseract

I'm scanning old Flor y Fauna news letters for my Dutch Hardwood Investment Wiki. I need to do this because most of these newsletters, although produced digitally, are available in the Sicirec archive only in paper form. The only graphical item these news-letters sport is a simple graphical header, so I want to convert the scans to text and put the text in a wiki article for each newsletter; I don't want to upload dozens of image-heavy PDFs just to show the original (crappy) layout. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 02, 2010, at 17:02 | No comments

Matriux, a penetration testing and security analysis LiveCD

Matriux is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations, security testing, vulnerability analysis, and much more. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 01, 2010, at 00:02 | 1 comment

HP LaserJet 6P under Ubuntu

Because Arnold Pilon is migrating his workplace to Apple, I could get his old PC and peripherals for free. Among its peripherals was an old HP LaserJet 6P, still perfectly working. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 30, 2010, at 01:01 | 5 comments

My custom Linux environment

On every machine that I install, I need a custom environment. At the very basic, I need screen and bash customizations. I will attempt to keep this blog post up-to-date with my most recent config. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 04, 2010, at 11:01 | No comments

Dumping a bunch of MP3s as WAV files

I just used the following command for converting a directory with a bunch of MP3s to WAV. Does someone know a command that is shorter? I find mine a bit convoluted to say the least. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on December 06, 2009, at 22:12 | 1 comment

XTerm configuration

I just created a gist for my XTerm configuration (separated from the rest of my X resources). Here's a snapshot of the current version: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on November 18, 2009, at 16:11 | 5 comments

winepath

I have all these little scripts in my $HOME/bin directory to ease the execution of Windows programs. For instance, I don't like to type the full path to Excel Viewer every time when I need to view an Excel sheet in Linux: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 28, 2009, at 17:06 | No comments

Native execution of Windows programs on Linux

When I installed this laptop last year, I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of vanilla Wine (and Gentoo's default Wine configuration). At that time, my only memory of Wine was that getting anything useful to work took work and that your best bet to get anything working was to install CrossOver Office. Things change and in the meantime Wine has even come to version 1.0. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on June 28, 2009, at 17:06 | 2 comments

Installing grub on RAID1

When you have your kernel image and grub boot stages on a Linux software RAID1 partition, installing grub needs a bit of trickery. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on June 21, 2009, at 13:06 | 2 comments

Creating a custom device node for specific hardware with udev

Sometimes you want specific hardware to get a specific device name in /dev. For example, I want my backup hard disk to have the same device name. I can't automate anything if sometimes the device is sdc and other times it's sdd. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on February 06, 2009, at 02:02 | No comments