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Install new locales on Ubuntu

I’ve spent sometime trying to figure out how to install a locale that I need on one of my servers that runs Ubuntu 8.x. I try to find which package owns the needed file on my laptop that runs kubuntu, but it seems that the file ar not owned by no package.
After googling a bit [...]

Do you speak english?

I was browsing through youtube looking for english learning videos as it is very clear than I need them (well, actually I need more time to learn than new material, but…), and I found this hilarious sketch that I want to share with you.

Heian Sandan

I just started to learn Heian Sandan today. Next embedded video is from Hirokazu Kanazawa, that as far as I know is the unique 10th dan alive currently. You can see all his katas through youtube, and may be you can download them through a p2p network also if the laws of your country are [...]

One thing that really sucks on rdiff-backup

I’ve been using rdiff-backup for sometime for my own projects, and I’m actually very happy with the way it works with incremental backups of three of my servers and two desktop computers. But there’s a thing that really sucks: when a connection to a remote host fails, next time it will try to regress all [...]

From 1987

I’ve many memories from 1987. I think that was The Year of my life, when I left to be a child, I discovered things like heavy metal and found anothers like my first girlfriend, that was a summer love (what else?). There happened a lot of more interesting things that year, some cannot been told [...]

Cut a clip from a flash flv file on linux

I’ve spent sometime trying to cut a flv flash video file on my kubuntu. I’ve tried with mencoder and ffmpeg without success, having problems with audio syncronization and things like that.
I just did an apt-cache search flv on my kubuntu and I’ve found the answer to my problem: flvtool2
It’s very easy to use for my [...]