I like to set the volume of mplayer to 28% of the volume instead of the 100% which is too large for me. And I also want mplayer to put to video window on the left top of the screen. This is the method: Add these lines to the ~/.mplayer/config file: For setting the startup […]
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lftp Disable SSL
lftp some times stalls with message “Making data connection” when “ls” the directory after logged in the ftp site. The message may appear like this: < — 227 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xx,xx,xx,xx,xx) —- Connecting data socket to (yy,yy,yy,yy) port zz `ls’ at 0 [Making data connection…] But some client such as filezilla may works on […]
Mostly Used MPlayer Keyboard Control Shortcuts
MPlayer has a fully configurable, command-driven control layer which allows you to control MPlayer using keyboard. But which are these shortcuts are not immediately know to users of MPlayer. Below is a list of mostly used MPlayer keyboard control shortcuts. They come from the mplayer manual where you can find a full list of all […]
A Simple CPU and Memory Performance Test of Xen Dom0 and DomU
Please refer to Setting Up Xen Dom0 on Fedora : Xen 3.4.1 with Linux Kernel 2.6.29 on Fedora 12 for the platform of this test (this test runs on Fedora 11, however). I have done some simple performance test on DomU and Dom0 and compare with the performance on physical machines. These test are simple, […]
Vim Removing “^M” Returns from Files
When editing some files fro Windows in vim, there are some ugly “^M” returns. Here is a method to remove and replace these “^M”s (please note that you should not copy/past to use the follows): :1,$s/{Ctrl+V}{Ctrl+M}//{Enter} {Ctrl+V} means keyboard operation that is push ‘ctrl’ and ‘v’ together. {Enter} is push ‘enter’. : means that it […]
My Vim Emacs and Other Configuration Files
My .vimrc .emacc files can be downloaded from here: http://github.com/zma/config_files My text editors are especially configured for source code such as C/C++/shell editing. I prefer to use spaces instead of tab. And my favourite tab size is 4. Some vimrc parameters and the comments are listed here. Details and the updated configuration files please refer […]
ALSA Problem of Fedora 11 on Compaq Presario CQ35-240TX
When I get my new Compaq Presario CQ35-240TX, of course, the first thing is to install Fedora ;) But unfortunately, after installation there is no sound! It seems there is something wrong with the driver configuration. Here is a solution to this: Add these two line at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/dist.conf options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 enable=1 […]
Speed Up Firefox DNS Lookup
Speed Up Firefox DNS Lookup: 1. Close IPV6 support ∞ # echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf # echo "alias ipv6 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf Type “about:config” into the address line and enter. Set “network.dns.disableIPv6” to “true” 2. Some other tweaks ∞ Type “about:config” into the address line and enter. Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” […]
Add More Loop Device in Linux
We need more loop devices on Linux than the default number (most commonly 8) some time, such as we are building 12 or more virtual machines on top of xen using loop device backed VBD. In this post, we want to use 32 loops. 1. If loop device is compiled directly in the kernel Pass […]
Configure sMobileNet of HKUST on Linux
How to configure NetworkManager to connect to sMobileNet in HKUST is introduced in this post. The wireless network connection configuration for sMobileNet in NetworkManager The SSID is “sMobileNet” Wireless security is “WPA & WPA2 Enterprise” Authentication is “Protected EAP (PEAP)” Anonymous identity is “” (empty) CA certificate is “(None)” (there will be a warning appear, […]
Several Vim Tips (in Chinese)
窗口模式操作 CTRL-W CTRL-S 将当前窗口分割为两窗口 CTRL-W CTRL-W 切换窗口 CTRL-W j 切换到下一窗口 CTRL-W k 切换到上一窗口 CTRL-W CTRL-R 将窗口的位置轮换 CTRL-W CTRL-_ 将当前窗口最小化 CTRL-W CTRL-= 将所有窗口变为等大 搜索和替换 /word 搜索word 搜索之后按回车高亮显示，n 下一个 p 上一个 :%s/模式/替换成的内容/gc % 全局选项，如果没有开启则只在当前行进行替换 g 表示 全局替换，如果没有g选项则只替换每行出现的第一个单词 c 表示需要确认 Esc替换按键 ESC键在键盘的左上角，按起来很不方便，而在VIM中ESC经常用到，其实有一个同样作用的组合按键：CTRL-[，这两个按起来手基本不用做大的动作，方便多了。 块操作 使用visual可视模式 v 进入可视模式，移动光标可进行选择 CTRL-Q 或 CTRL-V 进入列式模式，可进行块操作，选定的是一个矩形块。如果使用behave mswin CTRL-V可能映射成为past