Installing ubuntu from usb

Download iso

Plug in 2GB usb

sudo usb-creator-gtk -i /home/ms/Downloads/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso

No. This program seg faults on my machine.

Use unetbootin instead, with the same iso.

[13:12:17] Gavin:

`Mark, I need your help, I slipped with a knife in my hand and I accidentally cut my jugular, I'm bleeding quite heavily.'

`That's nothing! If I cut myself it would be much worse, and much more painful!'

mutt

(o): Sort messages according to options presented.
(l): Limit view to a search parameter.
(t): Tag message.
(;): Operate on tagged messages
(s): Save message (or, following `;' tagged messages)
(c): Change to directory
(b): Bounce message (forward, without changing the message at all)
(g): Group reply (reply to all)
CTRL b: View html links in message; select one; run in a browser. Needs urlview from apt-get

Deleting .FS and .ES recursively.

for j in `find -maxdepth 1 -name '*parallel'`; do cd $j; echo $j; for i in `find -mount -name "*.ES"`; do ls -lha $i; done; cd ..; done;

Change the ls to rm when comfortable.

Or, bigger:


for j in `find -maxdepth 1 -name '*parallel'`; do cd $j; echo $j; for i in `find -mount -name "*.ES"`; do rm $i; done; for i in `find -mount -name "*.FS"`; do rm $i; done; cd ..; done;

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The find command gives a cleaner approach:
 
find . -type f -name "*.ES" -exec ls -lha {} \;

ls -lha can be replaced with, say, rm when I'm happy the command is working as expected.

wow choppy audio

mplayer is fine; ubuntu audio is fine. WoW under wine plays a sound when the `play' button is pressed, but WoW is silent in-game.

Check sound preferences. Check the device in use. Analogue stero duplex works.
Check winecfg audio. Uncheck `use hardware acceleration'

ls colour control

http://linux-sxs.org/housekeeping/lscolors.html

flac to mp3

for file in *.flac; do flac -cd "$file" | lame -h - "${file%.flac}.mp3"; done

UPDATE

I used, `-h' above. Different conversion is possible with,

for file in *.flac; do flac -cd "$file" | lame --noreplaygain -q 0 --vbr-new - "${file%.flac}.mp3"; done

vbr: automatically choose bit rate to achieve a `quality': 4 is default (0 being highest,
9 being lowest).
Turn off level adjustment for each track. I can hear clipping, thank you, and will turn the level down if required.
-q 0 : highest quality encoding.