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Apple movies now 'stream' mov files, they cannot be saved (like they us. for example, if you view the HD movie trailer for the movie "GOOD" - the URL on the page leads to this stream: http://movies.apple.com/movies/ifc_films/good/good_1080p.mov Saving link creates a mov file of 75k - not the movie. In order to download, add the letter 'h' (Hidden) to the movie file name: wget http://movies.apple.com/movies/ifc_films/good/good_ h 1080p.mov HD-Trailers.net has an article on this and a tip for Yahoo HD Movie Trailers - which I've never used...

If you are like me and work with PDFs a lot, often times you get PDFs that you may need to PRINT and sign, then fax - because they can't accept e-mails etc. PRINTing and Faxing wastes Paper on both sides.  There are many FOSS tools in Linux that allow you to edit PDFs, insert Text and images. Use PDF Editor to open a PDF document, and open it for editing  You can insert text and/or images (like a scanned ink signature) Once done, simply save it as a PDF, or JPG image. Now you have an electronic document filled out and 'physically signed' to be faxed away PDF Editor provides a very good interface to open a PDF and edit it in multiple ways, repackage and save it as a PDF. Go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for 'PDFEditor' Related articles: http://koan.studentenweb.org/software/jpeg2pdf.html Edit PDF Documents In Linux With PDF Mod 2 Ways To Annotate Your PDF Files Online

Well well - I decided to remove Vista from the Vostro, downgraded to XP and dual-booted with Ubuntu 8.10 Installation was smooth as ever and grub worked perfectly. Dell ships with these broadcom network adapters that need b43 drivers - thankfully these are provided with the new dist. There is a bunch of software that I typically need/want/desire - here are the steps to get it I don't mind free closed-source software, so edit /etc/apt/sources.list & enable what's disabled. Enable medibuntu: sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update Now go for the mass install - remember Google & Sun want you to agree with their license terms - so keep an eye out for those when the time comes tab to Ok and hit enter. sudo apt-get install python python-central python-gtk2 python-compizconfig compizconfig-settings-manager amaro...

Issue: I needed to reinstall Windows XP on a dual-boot machine. No new partitions were needed, there were 2 O/S partitions - one with XP and the other with Ubuntu. After reinstalling Windows - the machine would simply boot into Windows XP (no dual-boot menu) Solution: Boot from Ubuntu LiveCD - choose to demo. Then open terminal. rohit@rs-dimension:~$ sudo -i [sudo] password for rohit: root@rs-dimension:~# grub [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,4) grub> root (hd0,4) grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded ...

(I) Unplayed Audio Podcast smartlist that plays 100 audio unheard unskipped podcasts starting from the earliest added. Podcast is true Play Count is 0 Skip Count is 0 Kind does not contain MPEG-4 Limit to 100 items selected by least recently added To create a Video podcast just change the Kind parameter on the smartlist to "contains" You can sort the list so it will play by artist, album (most Podcasts have album names consistent), genre etc Setting Video Kind to Movie admits most video podcasts however others get filtered out - so avoid this parameter.

So I started playing with Mule starting Feb 2007. Mule is an integration platform that allows for pluggable connectors to other types of systems. There are so many descriptions of ESBs and architecture styles, and almost everyone claims to be an expert in the space. IMO Mule is basically a container-type framework that rests on various open source products... if you go to the 1.4.1 distribution's opt folder the listing is as such: 05/22/2007 08:23a 444,463 acegi-security-1.0.1.jar 05/22/2007 08:28a 443,432 antlr-2.7.6.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 1,599,570 axis-1.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 31,191 axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 18,979 axis-saaj-1.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:26a 126,771 axis-wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar 05/22/2007 08:21a 327,810 backport-util-concurrent-3.0.jar 05/22/2007 08:28a 490,136 c3p0-0.9.0.4.jar 05/22/2007 08:23a 193,391 carol-2.0.5.jar 05/22/2007 08:28a ...

Just when I thought I would have to write a bookmark sync tool for my machines, I stumbled upon Foxmarks. It was like someone read my mind of the design I had thought and just coded it. Brilliant, thanks Foxmarks you have saved me weeks of coding & deployment! I am a happy user of it, it sync my bookmarks across machines effortlessly. Recommendation: Dump google synch, del.icio.us, tag for Foxmarks. http://www.foxmarks.com/