Managing TV overscan on RetroPie (and pretty much any application)
I have coverter my Linux home media center to be a retro-gaming emulation system as well by installing RetroPie on top of the main Linux Mint OS followng these instructions. …
VNC plugin for Remmina not found after upgrade
Occasionally, I am no longer to connect to any VNC host with Remmina : using the existing connections leads to the following error message : « VNC pluging is not installed ». …
Modifying track data in Matroska (mkv) files
While one can easily use mkvtoolniv gui to change default language for audio tracks or subtitle languages, this is as well possible without any remux from the command line with …
Splitting a Matroska (mkv) file by chapters
This is very easily done with mkvtoolnix :
Switch buttons on Wacom Graphire on XFCE
I recently switched to Linux Mint XFCE edition. While the parameters allow basic configuration of my Wacom Graphire 3 Classic XL (CTE-630), it is not as sophisticated as to allow …
Setting up the VRC-1000 remote on XBMC Frodo with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Setting up a remote has been the most frustrating experience I hve had since I moved to Linux. I recently updated my main OS to Linux Mint 17 XFCE (based …
« ssh: connect to host pi port 22: No route to host » on raspberry pi
I’m sharing this solution because I’ve scratched my head so much, I guess I can’t be the only one, especially now that the Raspebrry pi has reached the 3,000,000 landmark! …
Leveraging syslog for cron scripts
I have written a bunch of scripts to automate some tasks, like for example to automate dynamic IP registration in a DNS or more commonly for backup purposes. If you …
Adding shell colors for headless system
Some unix distributions have fancy shell coloring turned on by default, but for some others, it is a bit more spartian. Below are the few things I setup to add …
Quickly setting up a new user on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
We then need to make sure this new user has access to SSH and sudo. For SSH, nothing is required, as this is configured by default in /etc/ssh/sshd_config by this …