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Oct

How to Setup Firefox “User Agent” for “Deposit@Home” on Linux

Posted by Wayno  Published in Browsers, Deposit @ Home, Skill Level: Medium

Ahh this took awhile to get the right string – but this works! 1. Endorse the check. 2. Use xsane to scan the front and back of the check @ 200 dpi gray scale. (Note that the endorsement signature block is on the right.) 3. Crop images with gimp (gnu image processing). They should look [...]

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18

Oct

How to insert the cents sign (ȼ) or copyright (©) into text using the unicode char

Posted by Wayno  Published in Skill Level: Easy, Uncategorized

1. ctrl+shift (keep depressed) then hit u 2. you will see a u (underlined) 3. Now type in +23c and voila! ȼ appears! For the copyright symbol: ctrl+shift(keep depressed) u+a9 ©

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18

Oct

How to play closed captioned DVD on Linux

Posted by Wayno  Published in DVD, Skill Level: Easy, video

closed captioning != subtitles at a terminal window type: mplayer dvd:// -subcc or smplayer then subtitles and check “enable closed captioning” also make sure you set “subtitle” to none otherwise you get closed captioning AND subtitles (best bet)

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17

Oct

Quick Debugging Tips

Posted by Wayno  Published in Skill Level: Easy, Uncategorized

What release of Ubuntu am I running? nwayno@Homer:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.10 n l —————— What version of the kernel am I running? nwayno@Homer:~$ uname -a Linux Homer 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux —————— What graphics card do I have? nwayno@Homer:~$lspci | grep VGA 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia [...]

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