HowTo Ubuntu

Hotwire is a graphical terminal intended to replace the interactive command execution portion of a typical Unix shell. It includes much of the functionality found in the combination of a terminal emulator, a shell, and core utilities like ls and grep.
Here’s a video I found on youtube, its awesome!

Installing Hotwire in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy):
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I really dont like the 3gp format, but most mobile phones use it. So when I download the movies from my phone to my Ubuntu box I like to convert them to mpeg.
Here’s how:
First we need ffmpeg, a complete solution to record, convert and stream
audio and video.

apt-get install ffmpeg

After the install, converting videos is easy:

ffmpeg [...]