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):

There are two ways of going about it, either download the source and compile it manually or get a precompiled package from getdeb.net

The easiest way is with the getdeb.net package, you can get it here.
Chose the package that is right for your system, I’m gonna go with Ubuntu Gutsy 32 bits.

After downloading just type this to install:

sudo dpkg –install hotwire_0.599-1~getdeb1_all.deb

And thats it! Hotwire should appear under the Accessories menu.

Ubuntu 7.10 code name “Gutsy Gibbon” has been been released!

Get it here!

Review and screenshots coming tomorrow.

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 -y -i file.3gp -sameq -f mpegvideo -s cif -r25 -ar 32000 -ac 1 file.mpg

This HowTo should work on any distro as long you install ffmpeg correctly. Enjoy!

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