Convert wav to m4a with GNU/Linux

There are probably a gazillion ways to do this. I use FAAC, Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, to do this job. It works very well: <br /> faac originalfile.wav -o outputfile.m4a<br />

July 27, 2009 · 1 min · 31 words · kenno

Import photos from iPhone without iPhoto

So how do you transfer your photos from the iPhone 3G to your laptop running OS X if you don’t have iPhoto app? — Easy, just use the buit in app called Image Capture. The app can be run from: Finder -> Applications -> Image Capture Now, you can either download some or all photos by clicking on either one of the bottons as shown in the screenshot. Remember that you should have the iPhone connected to your copmuter, otherwise you would see the message saying the no device found or connected. ...

July 3, 2009 · 1 min · 102 words · kenno

Debian enable/disable services

Install <b>rcconf</b> if you don’t have it yet. <b>rcconf</b> is Debian’s runlevel configuration tool. It allows you to enable or disable the services from starting up automatically. Recently, I got annoyed by <b>postgresql</b> starting up at boot time, so this tool did the trick. Source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-runlevel-configuration-tool-to-start-service/

April 2, 2008 · 1 min · 46 words · kenno

Start emacs in terminal-mode

The first text-editor in Linux I ever used was pico. Then I was introduced to emacs and remained using for awhile. Nowadays, vi(m) is my favorite and default text editor of choice. Anyway, the main point of this post is to how to start emacs in terminal-mode instead of graphical mode. $ <strong>emacs -nw</strong> That’s it. -nw actually does the trick. Reference: How to get started…

October 22, 2007 · 1 min · 66 words · kenno

How to kill defunct process

Defunct processes are corrupted processes that can no longer communicate between the parent and child one. Sometimes, they become “zombies” and remain in your system until you reboot your machine. You can try to apply “kill -9” command, but most of the time you’ll be out of luck. In order to kill theses defunct processes, you have two choices: Reboot your computer Continue reading… First, let’s find out if the system contains defunct process: ...

April 4, 2007 · 2 min · 354 words · kenno