Visualising your source code with gource…

This is the settings that worked for me when running gource xvfb-run -a -s “-screen 0 1280x720x24” gource -s 0.4 -p 0.01 -1280×720  –auto-skip-seconds .4 –multi-sampling –stop-at-end –highlight-users –hide mouse,progress,filenames,dirnames –file-idle-time 0 –background-colour 111111 –font-size 20 –title “Omlet Lib 4_1” –output-ppm-stream – –output-framerate 60 | avconv -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i – … Read more

How to send a test email from the command line Ubuntu

If you have just installed Postfix or Sendmail it can be helpful to test if everything is configured correctly. Often you want to do this from the commandline without having to install an entire email client. You can do this by installing a few simple command line mail utilities. Then pipe a message to the … Read more

Changing the Bit Rate in Sound Juicer Ubuntu

It’s a real pain to change the bitrate of Sound Juicer to actually make the MP3 or Ogg files good quality. For some reason the default quality is terrible and the developers have removed the menu which allows you to change the bitrate. Frankly, this makes Sound Juicer useless as a ripping tool and I … Read more