April 26, 2011
johnboy45
How to Install Mplayer (a brief guide)
Install mplayer on a GNU/Linux machine and install fonts and GUI.
how to view/play youtube (.flv) without adobe flash player
This works with youtube and dailymotion and I asume others. The tools I use are ffmpeg and unplug. The basic idea is to download the .flv file to your desktop using “unplug” which is a firefox extention with a dual license (gpl and cc). Then run ffmpeg from the command line. It’ll look like this #ffmpeg -i *.flv rms.mpg. I call the file rms just for example. That should produce a file you can play with totem. With youtube/google I had to use .avi instead of .mpg.
xvkbd – virtual keyboard for X window system
Since gok is still broken I needed a replacement. xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X Window System. I’ve been using it for a few months. It’s in the gNewSense repository.
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
found this book on Project Gutenberg. It looks interesting, I have’nt read but a few pages.
It’s a text file format {.txt}. I like to open .txt files of this sort with the OpenOffice.org Word Processor and then export it as a a .pdf file.
I then read it with Gnome Pdf Viewer. Here’s a sample,
here’s a link main site mirror sites P2P
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