Unix/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 />

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/

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…

I have installed mysql-server on my laptop running Debian back in awhile. For that reason, I forgot the root password. Just recently, I need to use MySQL server for one of my assignments. So, I was playing around in /etc/mysql/ directory hoping that I could get rid of the server and then reinstall it. The commands apt-get remove <strong>mysql-server</strong> didn’t seem to remove files/directories related to MySQL. Then, I decided to delete the /etc/mysql/ manually. ...

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: ...