Fix For Yakuake Location Bug On Fluxbox

I like yakuake, it is hidden when you don't need it, and it shows when you press F12. It is the best terminal. But I am using Fluxbox and found a bug which appear only with yakuake on fluxbox. It shows on different location every time when you set to visible. This is very annoying for me. The yakuake developers are not released any new version from long time and I decide to fix it myself.
And I successed (I am never programming in C++), the fix is only one line.
You can get pacth here.

That is why I like Open Source software.

blogpingr: ping your blog to get indexed and drive traffic

I was looking for a blog pinger desktop or console program for Linux, but I didn't find any. So I decide to write one, for easy pinging blog update services.
I wrote simple program before some days. The program is in Python and pings many xml-rpc blog indexing services. I put it on sourceforge.

blogpingr project

Download or Direct download blogpingr-0.1.0

How to install it:
1. Download the program.
2. Extract files
tar -zxvf blogpingr-0.1.0
3. Install it as root
cd blogpingr-0.1.0
python setup.py install

How to use it:
1. Just execute the following command (change your blog name and URL)

blogpingr http://poisonerbg.blogspot.com/ "PoisoneR's Blog"

You will see similar output:

[20:37:40][poisoner@oTpoBa] ~ $ blogpingr http://poisonerbg.blogspot.com/ "PoisoneR's Blog"
* Pinging PoisoneR's Blog http://poisonerbg.blogspot.com/
* Ping OK: http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
Thanks for the ping.
* Ping OK: http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
Thanks for the ping
* Ping OK: http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
Thanks for your ping.
* Ping OK: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
Thanks for the ping.
* Ping OK: http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
Thanks for pinging Syndic8
* Ping OK: http://ping.feedburner.com
Ok
* Ping OK: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
Success! Thank you for your ping.
* Ping OK: http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
Ping recorded successfully
* Ping OK: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Thanks for the ping
* Ping OK: http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
Thanks for the ping!

and that's all. You will ping all services listed in /etc/blogpinr.conf.

You can make allias for shortert command. Add following line in your ~/.bashrc

alias pingmyblog="blogpingr http://poisonerbg.blogspot.com/ \"PoisoneR's Weblog\""

And when you add new post in your blog just type:

pingmyblog

If you have any problems or features request, post comments here or in project page at sourceforge.

HOWTO Easy DVD-Ripping In Linux With K3b

There is many ways to rip dvd in linux with transcode, mencoder, dvd:rip etc.,
but the easiest way for me is with K3b.
You need version 1.0_rc or better.

1. Install k3b (if you don't have it).
On gentoo:
USE=encode emerge -av k3b

On Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install k3b

2. Start k3b
You can start it from any terminal or run (Alt+F2) and type
k3b

3. Ripping
Tools->Rip Video DVD



4. Choose video and audio codecs options


5. Start ripping

How I Migrate Fedora Core 4 From No Raid To Raid

Recently I migrate a Fedora Core 4 to raid.
I used two Gentoo howtos:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_To_RAID
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_on_Software_RAID

The only one problem in fedora was the loading of raid1 module. Because it is not built in the kernel, and i was unable to boot the system with raid support. I expected to be built in the kernel or in the initrd, but it wasn't.I use mkinitrd to add the module in the initrd image. Here is the command for generating initrd with raid support.

mkinitrd -v --preload=raid1 --preload=raid5 /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2139_FC4_RAID.img 2.6.17-1.2139_FC4

after that you need to change the initrd in your grub.conf, and to look like this

boot=/dev/hd0
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(md0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu

title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2139_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2139_FC4 ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2139_FC4_RAID.img

and yet you can boot in your Fedora with raid.

Linux guys are sexier

This is article(humor mixed with reality) Linux Loving Men Are Sexier.
I know it, Linux guys are sexier.
Now i realize the meaning, when my roommate was saying

"I am not using Linux because it is better, I use it because make me to be cool."

But where are this girls, which likes Linux guys?

Knoppix 5.1.1 Released

Klaus Knopper has released a bug-fix update to KNOPPIX 5.1, with corrections to the Kicker bug and update to Firefox.

Changelog

Download

Gentoo amd64 fresh install

Last weekend I migrate to gentoo amd64. My old gentoo installation was from the end of 2004. And it was working to the end, but because cannot be ubgraded from x86 to amd64 i had to delete it. I install the new gentoo with the GUI installer, i never was used it before.
It is good but i got error in creating of the user accounts, and i continue installation by hand.
The first packages which I installed was X, fluxbox, mp3blaster, opera and licq.
Now i am happy Gentoo ~amd64 user.