How To Create Notes On Video's!

Hi all,

I'm aspiring new Linux Administrator and I have been given tasks of looking at various Linux servers and clients. As a newbie, I often forget/confuse about the series of steps I should take to accomplish certain tasks against various types of Linux distro. So I have some large no of notes in text file format, which i often refer to.

Earlier I used Microsoft OneNote, which can be used to view/update/create notes from my home PC, my Android phone or through various web browsers at client's site. But now, I am not able to access notes simply because, (1) MS SkyDrive is too slow, (2) Many of Linux machines have no GUI, (3) I'm not allowed to carry my Android phone inside server rooms, etc.

Long story short, I should be able to access my text notes in terminal from any machine which has internet connection. And also if I may extend, also in my android phone.

What I have with me is one .com domain with hosting space for next 1 year.

Any Idea on how I should proceed will be really appreciated.

Many thanks.

I have just installed a new debian OS and want to change a file.
For some reason, gedit didn't come pre-packaged so I installed it with apt-get.

When I use a terminal as root, gedit won't open. I get the following error message:
Code:

gedit grub
(gedit:3679): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session 
manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication 
failed

Gedit will open page files on the desktop - but not on the terminal.
Is this because I haven't done something with the new install or should I remove gedit and reinstall?

Would love to see Camtasia Studio (Techsmith) Ported to Linux. It is a fantastic program for creating videos, editing videos, and creating Website and YouTube videos, and even to create video for Facebook etc.

It's one of the best video editing software I have ever seen, but sadly I cannot find it in Linux.

I guess the place to start is their website.

I'm looking for a distraction-free environment to write down study notes (darn ADHD!), and my penmanship is terrible (and can't be searched).

I have an old HP laptop that can boot from USB, and an old thumb drive.

Ideally, I'd like...
- Fast boot
- Boot right into text editor (can be command line editor)
- Save out (back onto USB drive or HDD, accessible by Windows to copy over into evernote for later)

I'm not a total idiot, but am a linux noobie, so any instructions would be helpful.

I appreciate your time! Thank you!

Hi Linux Experts,

I have the following problem to solve:

-Below is the CSV file give

firstname,lastname,password,username,notes,city,phonenumber
fred,smith, notgood1, fredsmith, this user\, is the first in this file, Brighton,345698
Peter, Bloggs, anotherbad,peterbloggs,,London,987123
Jo, cooper, notmuch, jcooper, this user is Jo, Brighton, 456987
john, carter,nearlyempty,jcarter,This note is actually very long\, but really doesn't say anything very useful,,345777
sam,jones,passing, samjones, Not much of a note really, Manchester, 135790

- capitalise the first letter of the two name fields
- sanitise the formatting
- move the username column to the beginning of each line
- the phone number is missing the area code - look up the city in the following table, and add it to the beginning of the phone number column:

City, Area Code
London, 5
Brighton, 6
Manchester, 7

Provide the corrected CSV file.

One of the problems I have is that whenever I use the comma as FS the output for column 5 is the following

cat Test.csv | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "," } {print $5 }'
notes
this user\

this user is Jo
This note is actually very long\
Not much of a note really

It stops in the middle of the entry because it sees the comma but what I am trying to achieve is to produce the full entry for column 5 like this:

this user\, is the first in this file
This note is actually very long\, but really doesn't say anything very useful

I have to probably escape somehow the FS in the text but so far no joy with completing this task. Also can you kindly help out for the rest of the requirements.
I really appreciate your help in advance.

Ivan

I have Ubuntu 14.04. gedit is my preferred text and code editor. All of a sudden I am getting this warnng when I open a txt file:

Quote:
(gedit:3860): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkScrolledWindow 0x9bba3c8 is mapped but visible child GtkScrollbar 0x9bbc7a8 is not mapped
There are four such warnings in a row (or rather column). They litter my terminal output. What is this and how to correct it?

Thanks, - A.

hi

Mplayer is my main video player and I always use the command line with mplayer to play the videos.

From the terminal it shows the stats about the video as it is playing. At the bottom it shows the elapsed time in seconds. Is there a way to see elapsed frames instead of seconds?

If mplayer can't do it, I'm open to other players if they do it. Thanks

Hello,
As of 2 days ago, I am having a new problem watching Amazon Prime videos with Flash Player. I'm running Linux Mint 13 on a Dell desktop, with Firefox 37.0.1 and Adobe Flash Player 11. I have a 7mbps internet connection.

The problem is that two days ago, the video quality on my Amazon Prime got stuck at 348 kbps. Prior to that, I was able to watch Prime videos in HD. Now, I can't.

Here are the things I have tried so far:
1. I restarted my computer and modem multiple times.
2. I ran multiple speed tests at speedtest.net to verify that my internet connection is working properly.
3. I went to YouTube and sampled a couple of 1080p videos to make sure I could view video properly on sites other than Amazon. I had no problem streaming the YouTube videos in HD.
4. I tried watching the same Amazon Prime video in Chrome with Pepperflash. This didn't work at all -- after the video finished loading, I got a black screen.
5. I cleared my Firefox and Adobe Flash caches. (For the Adobe Flash cashes, I first tried the Flash Player control panel. When that didn't work, I used the macromedia page he http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager06.html
6. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Flash multiple times from the software repository.
7. I manually deleted the .adobe, .mozilla, and .macromedia files so they would be rebuilt.
8. I verified that HAL is installed.

Does anyone have other suggestions? I did call Amazon last night, and eventually got a tech support person who is a Linux user himself. He checked the log and verified that I was able to stream videos at HD speeds as recently as 2 days ago. He said that usually the steps I took would fix the problem, so it might be an Amazon issue, but also said that if he tried to report it it would probably get bounced because I am a Linux user and Amazon does not support Linux. I asked him please to try anyway, but thought I would check here in the meantime.

Thanks.

I have two servers, “ServerA” and “ServerB”. Using SLES SP3.

ServerA is the main server with LTSP running

I have used DD to image the drives from ServerA to ServerB. ServerB now boots and is identical to ServerA,and all is well. I want to use ServerB as a backup server, so if ServerA goes down I can bring server online. Obviously in order to put them both on the same network (to keep the user files updated on a daily basis) I need to change the IP address and the host name of serverB (currently is the same as ServerA).

I have done the following (copied from my notes):
Code:

  The following file, binds the ethernet MAC address to ETH0 or ETH1 etc..  We need to delete this file so that a new one is automatically created during reboot with the correct MAC address bound to ETH0
  Delete this file:
      /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

  make sure to change the static IP address in the following files
    /etc/dhcp.d
    /etc/hosts
    /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0
    /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ltsp.conf

  give the system a different host name in:
    /etc/HOSTNAME

Reboot the system

When I change the HOSTNAME, the server will boot, bring me to a log in screen and then after I log in it will just sit there with the green background and a cursor. What files am I forgetting to change..

The general question is: How behind are packages being packaged in Ubuntu? I know that this depends on the package and a ton of things, but I just want to get a sense of (stable vs. cutting edge--is there a good balance of both?) Ultimately, I want a system that fast, reliable, up-to-date, and easy to maintain.

I find myself debating whether to go with minimal Ubuntu, Arch Linux, or Slackware. I did some reading and realize that Ubuntu and Slackware are considered stable while Arch Linux is considered bleeding edge (yes, I realize Arch and Slackware require more work to maintain) but never to what extent. For example, I don't mind at all spending a ton of time setting things up since it is a one-time process, but I don't want to spend more than say 10 minutes a month for maintenance and ensuring things to work. From what I've read, Arch actually doesn't require much.

I'm not sure how behind the packages in Ubuntu/Slackware are to warrant me switching to another distro. I'm also not sure how stable Arch Linux is to warrant me to switching to a cutting/bleeding-edge distro for up-to-date stable packages (NOT anything newer, I don't want bleeding edge). I know that Arch has tests its packages too, but people often say "expect breakage".

Thanks!

Some notes:

- Don't recommend Ubuntu simply because Arch/Slackware requires a higher level of understanding to make it work. I intend to read documentations.
- I get the sense that Canonical is in the direction of "my way or the highway" and I really align with the Arch Way, but these are just philosophies that shouldn't have too much say in choosing a distro.
- Package management is important to me in sense that the system is tidy. For now, I have avoided PPAs on Ubuntu for this reason (apt-pinning is a solution but I don't know if it's a complete solution--if it is, I would have no problems with PPAs and actually use them).
- I like a system where it is bloat-free and has what I want, perhaps building from the base up. I don't know if this would necessarily provide me better performance though. I think Slackware kind of goes against this, but it's not a big deal especially because I heard Slackware is quite optimized somehow.
- I was originally set on Arch, but there are people telling me "expect breakage", "never update before an important event because of this" , "too much work to maintain when I just want to get things done" , and highlighting the disadvantages of a rolling-distro. This while I read things like "the only time Arch has broken for me was cause of my mistake in 3 years of using it" , "maintaining Arch takes like 5 minutes a month" , "as long as you subscribe to Arch news and don't do crazy stuff, Arch is as stable as any distro".
- I intend on being a programmer/doing software engineering if that matters. Maybe it means I don't want to spend too much time maintaining (not setting) the OS when I've got other things to do.

Thanks once again.