SOCKS Proxying With Tor
May 22, 2008 – 4:38 pm by \m/ikeFor those wishing to not use their own machines and to keep their identity as anonymous as can be while proxying on Ubuntu, Tor is a nice solution. Read more…
Using a Remote SSH Shell as a SOCKS Proxy
May 22, 2008 – 3:28 pm by \m/ikeCampus firewall got you down? Looking for a speedier (but less anonymous) alternative to Tor? SSH is a magical thing indeed. Read more…
Extracting the Audio Track From a Video File
May 22, 2008 – 2:40 pm by \m/ikeSo now you’ve got that video off youtube saved locally, but what you really want is to use its audio to burn an audio CD. Yeah…let’s do that. Read more…
A Neat App: youtube-dl
May 22, 2008 – 2:35 pm by \m/ikeDigging a video of some dancing foreign individuals on youtube? Save it locally and never have to worry about not finding it or your internet being down again! Read more…
Managing Startup Services in the Terminal
May 16, 2008 – 2:12 am by \m/ikeInstall a neat new package from apt only to watch in horror as it starts up a (possibly) unnecessary service along with it? “Doodoo! I only wanted to use the standalone cli version of that!”, you yell. Look no further friend. Read more…
Xbox 360 Media Sharing: Ushare and Fuppes
May 13, 2008 – 12:11 pm by \m/ikeSo you’ve converted a bunch of mkvs to mp4s via the guide on this site or you have a boatload of xvids dying to be seen on that lcd tv of yours. We could either put that dvd burner to work…or give it the night off and leave them right where they are on that 750 gig external. Trust me, your girlfriend is 4 times as sick as you are of watching “l33t scene rlsz” on your 19in laptop screen. Read more…
Slow Down That Noisy CD/DVD Drive
May 12, 2008 – 9:01 pm by \m/ikeEver been watching a DVD or streaming a video file and been uber distracted by your 4 year old drive’s rattle? Slow it down once and for all! Read more…
Converting (Remuxing) an x264 .mkv for Playback on the Xbox 360
May 11, 2008 – 2:18 am by \m/ikeLooking to play some of those HD .mkv files you’ve been collecting on your Xbox 360? Looking for the Linux equivalent to GotSent on Windows? This is the guide for you. Read more…
Compiling (Just About) Anything in Ubuntu
May 9, 2008 – 5:02 pm by \m/ikeSome basic commands for turning that .tar.gz into a happy .deb! Read more…
Selecting The Fastest Repository Mirror
May 9, 2008 – 4:27 pm by \m/ikeDo you dread new release time like the plague? Does the thought of downloading at 534 bytes/sec really irritate you? Say hello to a rarely talked about feature of Synaptic. Read more…