USB Pointers & Tricks
The following two articles offer excellent assistance in getting troublesome USBs (broken USBs) to function: Repair corrupt USB Drive (Make Tech Easier) How To Fix A Broken USB Drive Using…
Find duplicate files (3+ methods)
Let’s say you have a folder with 5000 MP3 files you want to check for duplicates. Or a directory containing thousands of EPUB files, all with different names but you…
Using “dd” to clone an HDD
The following command (using dd) will clone one hard disk (HDD or SSD) to another hard disk: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=noerror
Find & delete Core Dump files
Find all core dump files: find . -type f -regex “.*/core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$” The regex in the above command matches the file name “core.xxxx” where “xxxx” is exactly four numbers 0-9. If…
Using “dd” to create a Bootable USB
The following commands need to be run in terminal mode, be sure to 'fix' the [distro-name] Start by running the following command on your mounted USB device (to clean it…
Audio Tricks
Make an mp3 playlist: ls -1 *.mp3 > playlist.m3u Make mp3s from raw wav files: ffmpeg -b 192k -i The_Rain_Song.wav The_Rain_Song.mp3 Convert m4a to mp3: ffmpeg -y -i ./BWV0666.m4a -ab…
Fix gnome-keyring problems (via reset)
To Reset the gnome-keyring: sudo mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon-oldsudo killall gnome-keyring-daemon
Blacklist (quiet) an annoying PC speaker
Edit: sudo geany /etc/modprobe.d/mjr-blacklist.conf add the following content: #No PC speaker please blacklist pcspkr Close & Save, Restart your PC
Bluetooth won’t start (arch)
If bluetooth won't start try this.... in your terminal: modprobe -r btusb && modprobe btusb If that doesn't work try (much of the following requires systemd): sudo pacman -S bluez…
Convert DjVu -> PDF (script)
#!/bin/bash # convert DjVu -> PDF # usage: djvu2pdf.sh <file.djvu> #by ManyRoads http://eirenicon.org i="$1" echo "------------ converting $i to PDF ----------------"; o="`basename $i .djvu`" o="$o".pdf echo "[ writing output to…