Jazz. Smooth jazz.

I'm in the mood of posting today. Here's a video of youtube.com I liked. The performer is Bobby Hutcherson, the piece is "Dance of the sun".

http://www.youtube.com/...

Kubuntu - the wireless is working!

This week I finally had a chance to try the wireless at my (...Amilo Pro v3505), which is setup with Kubuntu, in the wireless network of TU-Sofia. It worked like a charm through the knetworkmanager.
The steps: I just needed to load "sudo modprobe fsam7400" (the kernel module for the Intel's 3945 driver) and to binary switch "echo 1 > /proc/driver/wireless/radio".
I guess this is cause I used the kde-frontend of networkmanager, which now I believe is a very nice piece of code :). No more woes with wireless (hopefully), just another feature, working under linux.

Kubuntu - first impresisons

Kubuntu looks indeed very nice, customizable beyond imagination (thanks to KDE). Kopete, the instant messenger, is very configurable; the only thing I miss is the ICQ file transfer (in Pidgin it worked like a charm). As an alternative, one has to use either Pidgin, or Qnext for to be able to send files through KDE with ICQ. KDE is fast, when used without the effects. Did I mention it looks really nice? So far, I like Kubuntu, especially the new menu style the developers created (which resembles the SLED menu of GNOME).

Връзки към страници за сваляне на Кубунту

Връзка към страниците за сваляне на Кубунту, използвайки двата български сървъра:
Linux-bg.org/Kubuntu
Ipacct.com/Kubuntu
Файловете са еднакви; за предпочитане е свалянето им чрез торент-клиенти, за да не бъдат претоварвани сървърите.

Новостите в Кубунту 7.10: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/7.10-release.php

Как да се използва Убунту заедно с Уиндоус:
1ви начин - зареждане на две операционни системи (video)
2ри начин - използвайки wubi (все още в експериментална фаза); ~another link to wubi - page in English

Screenshot

P.S. > Here's a screenshot of my new configuration.

After Ubuntu 7.04

I wish I had the time needed to read and learn about Archlinux (not likely in the next few months). I can remember an applicable joke for this:
[A surgeon sais to a friend 'You know, I can teach you how to perform a brain surgery in 40 minutes, but I will need 4 years to teach you some of the things you need to know, if something goes wrong'].
So, today I finally found some time. The few previous days, after I had tried the LiveCD of Ubuntu 7.10, I gave myself a heavy thinking about removing 7.04 and trying some other linux - Debian, Archlinux. I considered the time I will need to learn the other linux. Then I upgraded 7.04. After not that painless upgrade, I finally installed KDE (3.5.8), removed Gnome (maybe forever), and now all is configured. Nicely done, Kubuntu team!

A feeling of Ubuntu Gutsy

Here are just a few videos from people, that have tried the "testing" releases of Ubuntu Linux 7.10, codenamed "Gutsy Gibbon". Here can be seen shown some of the effects of Compiz-Fusion:
Video 1: http://youtube.com/...1
Video 2: http://youtube.com/...2
Video 3: http://youtube.com/...3
Video 4: http://youtube.com/...4

Some days left to Ubuntu Gutsy's release

Just thought, that I might use the counter from here: link

"Find as you type" feature

I saw this over the internet, can't remember the exact location though. Just wanted to share it though.
When using browsers (Opera, Firefox, Konqueror), the feature "find as you type" is being enabled by pressing the "/" button. And then just typing searches for text in the content of the thing being opened.
I find it very useful; one thing that I preferred in GNOME over KDE in Linux was the GTK's built in "find as you type", which allows for searching content inside applications (nautilus, rhythmbox, etc all have it). Well, as Amarok uses something similar, and now I can see Konqueror has it, I'm really impressed with KDE.

WOW music

I couldn't help but post a link to this amazing quitar playing of Andy Mckee:
http://www.youtube.com/...

Intel 3945 wireless at Linux

Edited - this problem is solved at these to 2 posts: 1 and 2.
In this post I'm going to gather all the information I'm able to find regarding the wireless solutions for the 3945 wireless conneciton of Intel cards. It seems to me, that in linux there are three ways to connect this specific wireless thing 3945:
1. Using the older (and stable as of the date of writing this post) ipw driver
2. Using the newer (and under heavy development) iwl driver
3. Using ndiwswrapper and the drivers for windows

Now it seems to me, that the newer driver is going to be integrated in the Kernel of Linux (if I'm not wrong about that) as of version 2.6.22 etc (that means, in Ubuntu Gutsy probably; right now there are packages for Arch Linux and Sidux, if I'm not wrong about that; not sure about the stability and quality though). I'm impatiently looking forward to testing this on mu Ubuntu Linux. The results of my attempts to connect to a wifi network are going to be posted as well.

The drivers for Windows, which seem to be working with ndiswrapper, are for "Windows* XP", and the driver is NETw4x32.INF

I'm going to post here all the links I have gathered, for to have success in connecting this 3945 thing to the internet:
The bible of linux drivers, sections 4.8 and 4.9 -> LINK
HOWTO for setting up and using ndiswrapper -> LINK
A table for the switching of the RF switch -> LINK

Sidux

Today I tried Sidux LiveCD, with kde-lite. It is indeed very fast, being very fast even from the CD; I did not install it on my system, but I guess it would be much faster (I'm almost sure about that). Still, feeling comfortable with my Ubuntu install (with Gnome DE), I'm not going to switch to Sidux that easy. I have to admit though, that it was amazing; I find it much better than Kubuntu (and it was faster from the livecd than Kubuntu being installed on my machine, or at least felt so). It is somehow easier to configure than Kubuntu. Also, the liveCD boots much faster than Knoppix, which really amazed me, cause Knoppix is intended for such use.
Sidux uses KDE DE, the other major Desktop Environment besides Gnome. Sidux impressed me. I think that it is very good right now, and very promising as well. If I wasn't settled down with Ubuntu, I would probably run it as a primary system of mine.
The other thing I liked seemed to be the fine documentation; I was able to easily find out what I need exactly for to be able to run wi-fi. It was a pleasant surprise as well, though I haven't tried the connection actually "on the battlefield", I guess it should be not so hard to set-up.
All in all, Sidux is impressive; if I have the time, I'm going to keep my eye on it - cause it deserves at least this.

Windows programs on linux

There are plenty of windows programs, that may run in linux. The most popular, installable layer for allowing this is called "wine". There are plenty of apps that may run; here's a list with some of them, running in different versions of wine. Some application not being on the list doesn't mean it can't be run; for instance, on http://belot.hit.bg there's a pretty popular in Bulgaria card game, called "belot", which is not listed; still, it runs in wine very well.
There are certain things one has to know about wine; still, reading all the documentation seems boring. Here is a comprehensive list of some of the most important things one has to know fot to be able to use wine at its best. It neither starts nor ends with the configuration command "winecfg", and is something even experienced users of wine may find worth scrolling through. Here goes a "thanks" to the author of that list.

Ubuntu tutorials

Here's a list of some websites which offer tutorials for Ubuntu Linux.

1. Clips for how to use ubuntu [aimed mostly at newcomers at linux world, a site with video tutorials for ubuntu]
2. Ubuntuguide [The 6.10 version of the guide is translated nicely in Bulgarian]
3. Ubuntu-tutorials.com
4. Ubuntugeek [A nice source of howtos for Ubuntu]
5. Howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu [Several howtos for ubuntu]
6. Ubuntu magazine [The fullcircle magazine is a magazine for Ubuntu]
7. Ubuntu blogs
8. Saving power with linux on intel platforms [I haven't tried these instructions, but they seem interesting]
9. The search function of my webpage/Google :) [one may be lucky to find what one wants here]

And here are another two howtos:
1. Howto add multimedia keys support [it enables the keys on the top of some keyboards]
2. Card reader [howto at ubuntuforums.org, for those computers with card readers]


Here I haven't mentioned the Howto section of Ubuntuforums.org and also the website Linuxquestions.org.

Faster boot on Ubuntu Linux

Just a note; changing the CONCURRENCY in loading from "none" to "shell" after parsing "gksudo /etc/init.d/rc" in a terminal seemed to hurry up the loading of the system, taking advantage of the dual-core intel processor. Now it boots faster, and this didn't crash it.

Edit note: In version 7.10 this trick causes problems and is not advisory.

Making Amarok start really fast in Gnome (Ubuntu)

One of the things that striked me most when I started using linux was Amarok. I like very much Rhythmbox as an application to play music, but Amarok is simply amazing. In Ubuntu 7.04 that I use (Gnome DE), amarok starts usually for about 10-15 seconds, which is VERY much for me. Luckily, this startup time may be shortened to 1-2 seconds. Here comes the good old "sleep script", that I used to launch conky with (a bit modified).
1.

#!/bin/bash
sleep 5 &&
kdeinit &
exit

[This loads the libraries of kde (which are needed to start amarok) in the memory at the time when the system starts; however, it does not increase the login-startup time, cause it sleeps the process (at least by me). If it DOES increase it, then a bigger setting should be applied for the sleeping part - "sleep 10" or 15 or whatever.]

2. Then, this script goes saved into a text file (for instance as ~/.kdelaunch), then a terminal is being opened and the following command is being issued:

chmod +x ~/.kdelaunch

which makes the file executable.

3. Afterwards, one has to go to System->Administration->Sessions (or whereever the startup of programs is; this part is not in English at my system) and add this as a new launcher (give it a name and in the place for a command type: ~/.kdelaunch).

And that's it all about; now Amarok would start for about 1 second on my system. Hooray! Btw, this could be used to increase the startup time of other kde applications in gnome as well (kopete, Kplayer, whatsoever).

Some humor about coffee

Do you drink coffee? Yes? But do you know, if you're drinking too much coffee? At this website you will find out whether the answer is "YES" or "NO". Have fun :) It's sad to admit it, but I may fail into some of the categories there (Going to sleep just to be able to wake up and smell the coffee, for instance). :)
P.S.: Some more humor about coffee may be found in the middle column here: (in Bulgarian, but most of them are cartoons).

Speed up Ubuntu

Making Ubuntu faster has always been an idea of mine I wanted to accomplish. Here's a link to a post, which would speed up the OS. Link to the website
This is supposed to work, though I have not tried it yet. Hope it does.

P.S.: There is also a Thread giving some more enlightenment about this stuff. I think that some of the methods showed in the link to the blog above are worth trying though. I think from the ubuntu team have implemented nice features for speeding up the system and the boot time for Feisty (for which there goes a big THANKS to them).

Live earth - the appeal

It's been several days since the concert "Live earth", the concert aimed at bringing information to people about global warming stuff. More about the stuff may be found at the links at the end of this post and HERE. The site claims one can watch live videos at http://www.liveearth.msn.org/, but with a slow internet connection it takes forever for them to load. If one wants to watch some videos, there are www.youtube.com and http://video.google.com; with the keywords "live earth" there comes a bunch of videos, and almost all songs of this event.

Here's a video about global warming and about how crucial it is to act now:

Here's a trailer for the concert:


The global warming survival guide

Effects on climate change by 2020

Some more information about this stuff may be found at http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/
and http://green.nationalgeographic.com/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
and http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/gsteps.asp
and http://www.nature.com/climate/index.html
and http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
and http://www.pewclimate.org/

Sharing files - free, safe and unlimited

There's an application, to which this post is dedicated - the Java based Qnext. I have all my thumbs up for this one. As described in Wikipedia, Qnext is a p2web application. What does this mean? It means, that Qnext allows you to share everything on your computer (if you want to) - files, photos, music - with a selected group of friends. And what's the best part of it, the friends even do not need to have Qnext installed on their computers; all they have to do is use their webbrowsers, for to reach the shared content.
With Qnext, your computer acts as a server for your friends; there is a big list of waht one can do with Qnext at http://qnext.com/music_streaming.shtml.
Qnext is p2p, which means there are no servers in the middle of the communication between you and your friends (which means no observation (as stated at their website) of the content being shared). And, as the http://qnext.com/faq.shtml claims (the FAQ section of the website of Qnext), logon is highly encrypted and every communication is encrypted at very high level, which is more secure than the standard for online banking. Which apparently should mean it is secure.
So, how do you know how to share with your friends? Qnext provides instant messaging services, which means, that you can share files from your computer with your buddies from ICQ, MSN and some other instant messaging clients; but that's not all of it. You can also enter the e-mail of a buddy you want to share with, and he/she will receive an e-mail with a link directly to the shared files (the so called "zone"). As described in the FAQ section of their website, your computer needs to be turned on, for to allow others to access the files. As good as it seems, qnext is free, multiplatform (java based), which means it runs on everything - Windows, Linux, OSX. One feature I have not tried yet is the video conference, but reviews at the ubuntuforums.org claim, that it works just great. I am not trying to convince anyone to use this; I just wanted to share my enthusiasm about this program, which had made the file sharing so easy (and pretty much secure). For the ordinary person, sitting in front of their computers, thinking about how to send fast this 100mb important files to somebody at the other side of the country, this would be a nice solution.
Links to some articles, related to qnext:
1. Pcworld (english)
2. Computers.bg (in bulgarian)
3. Wikipedia (english)
4. Linux.com (english)

Niches for listening music legally on the internet

So, let's start with the definite place to visit, if you're searching for music: Skreemr.com. The site itself claims, that it does not break any copiryghts, as it just links to music on other sites. On my opinion, this site is just great. It allows listening to the chosen song through the web browser, so there's no need of winamp or some other music player to listen to songs. It searches for album covers on the net (so you can watch the cover while listening if you want to); it provides tons of information about the songs; the search algorithm brings out a huge list of songs, especially for popular artists. If the results brought are too many, the searching may be customized - by writing for instance "The Artist I Want To Listen To" in quotes will bring out results with the exact match of the text in quotes; if you want a word necessarily to be present in the search list, you have to write a + sign in front of it; the - sign serves for the contrary action. There is a plugin for firefox, by which Skreemr may be added to the search engines of the browser, afterwards accessible via Ctrl + k.

There are search engines, such as Exploseek.com, for instance, that would search for songs on the internet, but the aim of this post is not to point to such engines and sites, the latter one added just for info.

The next place that is mandatory to be visited, if you want to listen to nice music on the internet, is, of course, Last.fm. For the nonregistered users it gives the opportunity to type the name of their favourite artist, and then creates an internet radio station with artists, similar to the preferred one. If you don't like the current song played, you can just skip to the next song. The music may be listened directly from the brower, without the need of any media players. The more interesting part comes when someone registers; the registration is very easy and fast, and reveals many more opportunities for the users. Among them is the opportunity to pay a relatively reasonable (to me) fee, for which one can listen to the favourite songs wherever he is (one creates his own playlist on the internet with the songs one loves). There are also user groups, and a bunch of radio stations, created by users (for instance, radio station for smooth jazz and so on). Last.fm is very well integrated in the best music players - winamp, amarok, rhythmbox, xmplay, foobar2000 and many others, through plugins for these players; the plugins are usually to be found at the websites of the players. Unfortunately, recently last.fm wass bought by a huge company, which may be for good (or maybe not) for the future of this great resource on the net. Still, if one has a favourite artist and is looking for diversity and for new music, similar to that artist, last.fm suggests such music, and I like the way it does it. An interesting feature for registered users is the opportunity to embed a radio station with the beloved artist in weblogs. But let's move further to the next resource on the net.

Magnatune.com has a very interesting music selection. Although the artists there are not so well known, some of them are VERY good. I personally like the quitar things of Jeff Wahl. The site lets users listen to mucis on the net (throught the browser, no additional media players needed). After that, if the user likes the music, it can be purchased in exchange of a sum, which the user decides upon (I think 5 dollars for an album was a possible cost there). There are plugins for some media players in Linux (for instance, Rhythmbox, Amarok, GMPC/MPD) supporting streaming of music through Magnatune. I can say nothing but a huge "Thank you!" to the developers of these players.

Of course, there are also countless blogs pointing to mp3's and music resources on the internet; there are appllications like Songbird that are specialised in searching for music on the internet. Mentioned in this post are just a few places that offer some diversity in finding music of the favourite style one likes to listen to.

Listening radio on the internet

One can listen to the radio using a computer, if one has an internet connection, and a player, that supports streams. As almost all nowadays players (winamp, rhythmbox, amarok, iTunes, foobar2000, xmplay are just some of them) support streams, the harder task seems to find a radio station that suits one's taste. Here I list the ones that I like; that's just my taste, and there's no need to be liked by anyone else. Also, if the radio stations listed here are not at one's taste, one may want to visit the website mike's radio world and choose a radio station from a great list of radio stations there. Also, at the address of Shoutcast.com is a list of over 800 radio stations for listening on the internet.

* Not wanting to have my opinion as obsolete, the soft smooth jazz section of Last.fm is great. Here are also some other radio stations that I like:

* Frequencejazz is a french radio, that plays nice jazz things that I like. For to listen to it, just drag and drop the following link into your player: Link to frequencejazz
* I come from Bulgaria, and I like a radio station there, the Retro radio. It plays music I like. For to listen to it, drag and drop the following link into your media player: Link to retro radio (one has to be patient, since the link doesn't work sometimes; but to me the music there is worth the patience)
* There's also a german radio station that I listen to from time to time; the so called 106.8 Rock'n Pop. It's a good one. To listen to it, drag and drop the following link into your media player: Link to 106.8 Rock'n pop

Linux - How about SMplayer?

SMplayer (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/), currently newest version 0.5, is, to me, the new multimedia leader in the linux world. Well, as I use it instead of my beloved BSplayer on my Windows machine, I guess it is also a great video player for Windows as well.
SMplayer uses the mplayer engine (http://www.mplayerhq.hu ), which by many is thought to be the best video player for linux. But for a long time there has been no simple, intuitive and complete frontend for this player. Until now.
The unique thing, one that I like mplayer (and hence SMplayer) about is, that it would allow me to watch a movie onlne with my extra-slow internet connection. I'm not very much sure if this is because of the cache it creates, or the usage of RAM memory it has, but for sure I'm happy about this.
Now, about the features of SMplayer. Probably the feature that distinguishes SMplayer the most is its ability to remember the settings for a movie - so the next time one starts it, the movie is played from where it had been stopped. This, of course, is a setting by default, which easily may be stopped from the settings box of SMplayer.
Another features may be found at the SMplayer website, at the features section. But they are many, and most of them were just (on my opinion) what one would want from a media player. The best one, of course, is that SMplayer is published under the GPL licence.
There is a translation in Bulgarian, which, of course, makes me very happy. As for the linux media players, the preferences dialog can be compared with the one of VLC. The ones who have used VLC may know how complicated things there may become; however, SMplayer allows an intuitive way for configuration. When using it with windows, there may be a need to tell SMplayer which font to use for the subtitles (for instance, C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/times.ttf). Some other basic configuration may be needed; however, after this, SMplayer is trully powerful; for me it is the best solution for video at linux at present time. And the best, it is under heavy development, so new features are probably being added even as I write this.

Linux - Conky tweaks

Sources: http://ubuntuforums.org, http://ubuntugeek.com


When making conky start on startup, it sometimes covers the panel, which doesn't look good. For this reason, here's a script, that would delay the startup of conky for some time.
This is supposed to be the file .conkylaunch:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 25 &&
conky &
exit

Then must be made: chmod + x .conkylaunch

Conky sometimes flickers after first installing. This may be fixed by

gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

finding the section "Module" and adding "Load dbe". Conky should flicker no more.

Linux - another .conkyrc file

Yet another .conkyrc, this one is one-line down. Source: http://ubuntuforums.org

background yes
double_buffer yes
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans:size=9
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 30.0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
default_color grey
own_window_colour brown
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_borders no
draw_outline yes
stippled_borders no
border_margin 0
border_width 1
alignment bottom_left
minimum_size 1262
gap_x 9
gap_y 9
uppercase yes

TEXT
${color darkgrey}Uptime:${color white}$uptime ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Battery time:${color white}${battery_time} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Temp.(C):${color white}${acpitemp} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Load:${color white}${loadavg} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Space used:${color white}${fs_used /}/${color white}${fs_size /} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}eth0: ${color white}${downspeed eth0} kbps${color darkgrey} down (${color white}${totaldown eth0}b${color darkgrey} total), ${color white}${upspeed eth0} kbps${color darkgrey} up (${color white}${totalup eth0}b${color darkgrey} total) on ${color white}${addr eth0}
${color}

Linux - useful tweaks and commands

Here are some useful commands and tips for Ubuntu linux; the greatest part of them have as a source http://ubuntuforums.org.
1. How to change Rhythmbox icons I personally prefer using audacious, but in the rare cases, when I use Rhythmbox, I prefer that it has nice looking icons. An iconset may be found here.
Then, go to ~/.icons (may be needed to press Ctrl + H to show hidden files), create folder "gnome", put the icons from gnome.tar.bz2 in there - and the way rhythmbox looks like is changed.
2. How to access filesystem as root at the window manager Type

sudo nautilus

and you can easily rename/copy/paste/change permissions of folders in your filesystem. WARNING! If you don't know what you're doing, this may cause a fault to your system. Be careful, when using the root.
3. How to make global hotkeys for audacious Press Alt+F2, type gconf-editor, go to "apps->metacity->keybinding_commands", use command_1 till command_5, typing in audacious -s, audacious -t, etc. (open a terminal and type audacious --help for the list of commands for audacious), then go to apps->metacity->global_keybindings, and assign a global hotkey for the commands 1-5, i.e. run_command_1 =< Mod4>z (This uses the windows button of your keyboard; instead of Mod4 can be used any other, for instance Ctrl or Alt). Similar should be the setting of global hotkeys for other players (for instance, Exaile).
4. How to mount an iso: To mount the ISO image file.iso to the mount point /mnt/test use this command:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/test

Linux - wireless at ipw3945

For some time, after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, my wireless wasn't working. After some research, it came out, that the kill switch is turned on, and it's needed this switch to be turned off, for the wireless to work. I tried different commands and things, but every time I was just close to making it work. These griefs were ended by an user in the ubuntuforums, named 'goranpop', who suggested, that two simple commands would give life to my wireless (here's the thread).
The computer is Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro v3505, the wireless driver is ipw3945abg, and the commands are (as a root):

modprobe fsam7400
echo 1 > /proc/driver/wireless/radio

This turned the kill switch (and the led) off, turning me into a content user of Ubuntu Linux.

Music - Voda (Water)

This is a link from www.youtube.com to the bulgarian song in Eurovision 2007, placed among top five: http://www.youtube.com/...
Here's what the song means:


Here's the text:
Bulgarian
More, malka mome, yi..
More, more pee, iy

More Mitra pee na rekata, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, na rekata, do gorata, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, yozdol ide, ludo mlado, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, ludo mlado, konche vodi, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le

More, more pee
More, more, iy
Mitre le
Eno ho.. ho.. ho..
A.. a.. a..

More, ludo mlado, konche yazdi, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
More, konche yazdi, moma lyubi, Mitre le, iy, Mitre le
Tara-du-da day-du-dara dara-du-da, Mitre le

Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey, hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da

Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey, hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da (Hey)
Tara-du-day du-dara dara-du-da

English translation

See this young lass there, eeeeee!
See this young lass sing, eee!

See young Mitra singing by the river, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
See young Mitra there, yond’ the forest, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
There’s a young lad coming from the village, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
Walking by his side’s a wild young pony, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass,
See him walking there, hear him singing, eeee!

See the young lad riding his wild pony, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass
See him riding, holding tight his lassie, Mitra-lassiee, Mitra-lass

Traduction en Francais

Regarde cette jeune fille Mitra
Qui chante
Qui chante au bord de la riviere,
Ehi Mitra qui chante au bord de la riviere pres de la foret..
Voila qui arrive un jeune garcon avec son cheval

Et Mitra chante de joie

Car ce jeune garcon qui vient sur son cheval aime la fille Mitra
Tara du da day du dara
Tara du day Mitre le
Tara du da day..

Linux - the file .conkyrc

Here's how my current .conkyrc looks like, using the conkyrc setup (but a bit tweaked) from http://ubuntugeek.com

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 30.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color}
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine
Uptime: $uptime Battery time: ${battery_time}
Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz Load: ${loadavg} Temp.(C): ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
NAME PID CPU% MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY & DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM: $memperc% ${membar 6}$color
Swap: $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}$color
Used: ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color orange}LOGGING ${hr 2}$color
${execi 30 tail -n3 /var/log/messages | fold -w50}

${color orange}FORTUNE ${hr 2}$color
${execi 60 fortune -s -e| fold -w50 -s}

==================================================
And another .conkyrc file:

background yes
double_buffer yes
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans:size=9
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 30.0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
default_color grey
own_window_colour brown
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_borders no
draw_outline yes
stippled_borders no
border_margin 0
border_width 1
alignment bottom_left
minimum_size 1262
gap_x 9
gap_y 9
uppercase yes

TEXT
${color darkgrey}Uptime:${color white}$uptime ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Battery time:${color white}${battery_time} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}Temp.(C):${color white}${acpitemp} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey}System load (1m., 5m., 15m.):${color white}${loadavg} ${color}|${color} ${color darkgrey} Date:${color white}${time %e %m %G} ${color}|${color}
${color}

Gmplayer configuration in Ubuntu

Sources: (http://www.mplayerhq.hu, http://www.kaldata.com/...)
Mozilla-mplayer plugin. Well, as Totem plays the videos as a default player in Ubuntu, there has to be a way to change this. One has to look at the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins and to delete everything, that has "totem" in its name.
Fonts, subtitles Since my native language is Bulgarian, and in no bulgarian forum have I seen an easy way to play a movie with subtitles, that do noot look like chinese symbols, I decided there should be an easier way to watch a movie. There is one. At my version of Mplayer (not sure which one it is, the one that comes at the standard repository of ubuntu 6.10), in the preferences, there is a box, called "subtitles&OSD". The encoding to me is set to "Cyrillic windows CP 1251". I have also tagged the unicode subtitle box. The more interesting is the other box, called "font". At my version of mplayer, it allows the user to choose a subtitle from a file (nice work of the developers of this player). There could be used fonts with the extension ".ttf", which are situated in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have chosen Times new roman.
Skins. Well, there is the download page of the mplayer, with lots of skins there. The desired skins should be moved to /usr/share/mplayer/skins . Now, how to use the skin. Write "gmplayer -skin TheNameOfTheSkinToUse" in a console. ( like gmplayer -skin webby).
Sound, VideoIf there's no video, one has to choose from the "video" tab the thing that works with his/her computer - this would usually be "xv" or "x11". If there's no sound...I think that if you have been reading this thing, you already know, that one should use the "audio" tab, for to adjust the setting that works with his/her computer.