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find /$PHOTODIR/ -name "*.JPG" -exec "exiftool {}" \; | grep "Focal Length" | split -f2 -d":" | sed "s/.0//" | sort -g | uniq -c > FocalLength.txtReference: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/249573-post5.html I have also used Exiftool to extract that information directly and use GNUPlot for plotting them, simple and nice!

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What if you don't have (read: don't want) Windows on your box to do the BIOS updates. Here is a very good explanation.

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Cool! http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/how-to-install-picasa-36-in-ubuntu.html

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Easy LAMP install: sudo tasksel install lamp-server Drupal install instructions: Reference: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal

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As described here

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Here

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I used gphoto2 on Linux, actual command is: gphoto2 --get-config /main/status/shuttercounter connect your camera to USB on computer and run this :)

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It is frustrating to manage those hundreds of books on Kindle into collections by moving them one-by-one. I might try this soon and see if it works.

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Here

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Here

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You can find a hack here.

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Everything you need is here and here

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I am looking to make this card work with Ubuntu 9.04 and could not find any relevant articles with steps to make this work. ATI does seem to have a driver for this card, but it freezes up my box (32 bit) :(I will update this article if I can figure this out.

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http://www.the-little-things.net/blog/?p=35

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Don't you love the way Linux has evolved. I needed to combine few pdf files into one and was looking for a pdfedit kind of thing with capabilities for combining multiple pdfs and this guy from Ubuntu Geek provides the steps clearly.sudo apt-get install gs pdftkgs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE= -dBATCH ...Simple, isn't it!

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I have been looking for a command line tool to play my music on the remotely connected machine (yeah it's my mythtv box and I usually just ssh to it and have my speakers connected to it).This is how you can do it if you are looking to play all the mp3 files in that directory:> mplayer dir *.mp3Simple as that!Also, you could use the "-loop 0" to repeat the song/playlist forever :)> mplayer -loop 0

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I specified the Ubuntu version because it may change your experience. And for the record, I love this new version so far.From command line:1. First backup your xorg.conf file# sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.back2. Install Nvidia-glx using the following command # sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx3. Now edit the xorg.conf file as followsUnder the module section, replace “nv” with “glx”

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I have been looking for a permanent solution to annoying ways to mount a Windows share on my Ubuntu box and this reference comes handy:Reference: http://note2.industriousone.com/mounting-windows-shares-ubuntuMore specifically the steps are:1. create a mount in your /mnt folder$ sudo mkdir /mnt/mount_point2. create the following entry in your /etc/fstab file//windows_share/specific_folder /mnt/

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I connected am external HDD to my laptop which was previously used with another installation of windows and surprising got this error for almost all the folders:Access DeniedAfter spending an hour or so I figured out the solution which is:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B823306

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$ cat /etc/lsb-releaseOR$ lsb_release -a

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$ find music_folder_name -name "*.mp3" -print > output_playlistnameNOTE: mp3 or any other media extension which mplayer can play should be specified.$ mplayer -playlist output_playlistnameEnjoy

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I found this weird thing with gtkpod (gtkpod-aac as well), that it cannot properly transfer the podcasts in (mp4 format) to my iPod. It shows it transfered but I cannot see it in my iPod. I also tried to get hpodder to work, but it didn't. Why are certain things in Linux so complicated while they should be simpler. I know we keep blaming the h/w vendors for not releasing the specs so that we can

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# sc delete Help page:DESCRIPTION: SC is a command line program used for communicating with the NT Service Controller and services.USAGE: sc [command] [service name] ... The option has the form "\\ServerName" Further help on commands can be obtained by typing: "sc [command]" Commands: query-----------Queries the status for a service, or

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ref: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00964.htmlTo uninstall Cygwin you have to:rmdir /s /q C:\cygwinregedit -s rmcygwin.reg[rmcygwin.reg]REGEDIT4[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions][-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions]

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ref: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1005112800135Start > Run > gpedit.msc(Left Pane) Computerer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System(Right Pane) Set "Turn off autoplay" to "Enabled"

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The GCC package contains compilers for several different languages. The extension on the source-file determines which language the compiler will recognise, but the name that you use to invoke the compiler will determine which libraries will be included by default.With the .cpp extension, your source file will be compiled as a C++source file. But, by using the name gcc to call the compiler, you

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http://c.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/stack-vs-heap-2112Traditionally in a process address space you would see stack growing upside down and heap growing upwards. An application wise difference is all the memory allocated dynamically gets allocated on heap viz. malloc free, calloc etc. The stack of an process contains stack frames( containing the return address linkage for a

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I was getting a lot of errors on xfig when running, mainly for the font sets available on the system. Here is the problem description and the solution to get it working:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am having a very strange problem with my xfig installation on Ubuntu Breezy (5.10). I installed the foillowing packages initially:

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An API refers to the rules and guidelines and protocols etc that are set forth by a library. In other words, a library has an API. So API is really more of a description of a library, whereas a library is an actual physical chunk of code (well, as physical as code gets).The easy way to think about this is an API is a specification and the library is an implementation. One API can have many,

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For executing the perl scripts using custom user commands (I have ActiveState's Perl compiler installed): Go to Options | Environment options... > Execute keys. Press the Add button and type "pl" in the dialog box that appears. Now select one of the function keys (say, F9). Type the full path name to perl.exe in the Execute: box, "%f " in the Parameters: box, and check Capture console

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VMWare Workstation 5 doesn't support USB 2.0. Although, guest OS can see the USB 2.0 interface through the host, it only allows you to use a USB 1.1 interface while transferring data to a USB attached drive from guest OS.

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I cannot figure out how the shared folders which are supposed to appear in /mnt/hgfs under Ubuntu breezy as a guest OS in VMWare workstation 5.5 would appear. I dont get any errors at all, but it shows me 0 files when I try ls in that folder. Should do some searching to find it.

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I copied the history.dat file from my previous Ubuntu installation (hoary) to a newly created virtual machine (Ubuntu Breezy) and it seems to work fine. I was not sure if this file is somehow encrpted with the default user id created by firefox (something like 3hsdj49348934j ;)now that it works, it seems the file is just a format not human readable, but definitely an encrypted file, so you can go

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Pager port: 80 works for me... the default port 5050 doesn't work.

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I found it to be very annoying when WE was crashing as soon as I try opening a folder (multimedia content) with "thumbnail" preview option set. It is because WE tries to open/run/preview the MM file and thus if the file is corrupt WE will crash.My SOLUTION:Just change the view option to list or details :)the eventual solution is to find the bad file and remove it.here is something I found on

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lets get going...

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