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If you’re using the new Ubuntu 10.04, you may have noticed that Sun’s Oracle’s java is not there anymore, it has been replaced by openjdk. This also means that there is no sun-java6-plugin to use with your favorite browser in Ubuntu 10.04. Instead, you must use the openjdk browser plugin, which can be installed like [...]
Some time ago I read about random numbers and the linux kernel. The problem was (and still is) that the linux kernel uses things like network activity and keyboard/mouse interrupts to gather entropy for its random number generator. So.. What is entropy? Entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable. This [...]
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Do you know that you can extract sound from a flash video file in ubuntu/debian using just one command? You can. First, you must download the video file from YouTube (described here). Then, you must install mplayer: sudo apt-get install mplayer. Then, it’s simply a matter of playing the video file with mplayer, while instructing [...]
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