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The easiest way to capture linux desktop which I know

#determinate screen resolution
xdpyinfo | grep 'dimensions:'|awk '{print $2}'
#how to grab you display where 0.0, same as the DISPLAY environment variable
ffmpeg -f x11grab -i :0.0 /tmp/out.mpg
#here we grub display, -r will be used to set the output file to 25 fps.
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s `xdpyinfo | grep 'dimensions:'|awk '{print $2}'` -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq videoOutput.mpg

To determinate glibc version you can by following steps:
• #1 at any distributive you can cal library as a programm
  

  /lib/libc.so.6 

  
  Result:
  

  GNU C Library (EGLIBC) stable release version 2.10.1, by Roland McGrath et al.
  Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.1.
  Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.24-23-server<< system on 2009-10-07.
  Available extensions:

For installation mozilla thunderbird 3.0 mail client on Ubuntu you need to do following steps
• Add mozilla daily repository to you sources list
  

  gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  #and add following lines
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

  
  If you use another dist of ubuntu, change karmic to jaunty, hardy, karmic and intrepid
• Import GPG key
   

Here steps for conection to vpn server
• Ininitialy install open vpn client for ubuntu
  

  sudo apt-get install openvpn

• Then run following command from terminal
  

  sudo openvpn openvpn-config.ovpn

  
  Have fun!

To mount a ftp share under ubuntu linux, you need perfom following actions
• install ftp file system support
  

  sudo apt-get install curlftpfs

• run mount command
  

  sudo curlftpfs -o allow_other,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp1251  ftp://hudson.eltegra.by/common /home/mareshkau/Desktop/Share/ftp/

Recursively Remove .svn Directories in Linux

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Problem
Some buttons not react on mouse clicks under Ubuntu 9.10, shortcust like CTRL+SHIFT+T not works to, Updates not works for eclipse.
Solution
set following environment variable

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
#and than run eclipse
./eclipse

By default ubuntu 9.10 can use only 2989MB(3GB) memmory. If you have more than 3GB, you should install x64 version of ubuntu or add PAE support in kernel;
To add PAE support you can recompile kernel or
install kernel from server version of ubuntu. It's easiest way.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server

mareshkau@mareshkau:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached

To join in windows workgroup you can use following way:

• Install samba and system-config-samba
  

  sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba

• Run system-config-samba
  

  sudo system-config-samba

  and from Preferences->Server setting enter work group name

Have a fun.

Howto create a windows install usb flash from linux

• First variant
  

  #install ntfs progs
  sudo apt-get install gparted ntfsprogs
  #format flash as ntfs
  sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/<flash_path>
  #mount an iso image
  sudo mkdir /media/iso
  sudo mount win.iso /media/iso -t udf -o loop
  #copy files from iso to flash
  cp -R /media/iso/*  <flash_drive_path>

• Second variant
  

  umount <path>
  #sudo dd if=<path to iso> of=<path to flash device>
  #Example
  sudo dd if=en_windows_vista_with_service_pack_1_x64_dvd_x14-29595.iso of=/dev/sdb4