[Linux] Journal.

Gmail can now import csv (comma separated values) files to its contact list. However Evolution can only save its address book in vcard format so here’s a modified version of the script taken from Raj Shekhar with a few tweaks to work with gmail import.

Click here to download vcard2csv.pl.

Export address book from evolution by [...]

I have a subtitles file which is not in sync with the video. Luckily mplayer has an option -subdelay which shifts the subtitles by the number of seconds specified. To find out the delay, read the time of the first entry in the subtitles file, then minus the time that entry is spoken in [...]

Here’s a nice HOWTO on the MJPEG-tools and the creation of MPEG 1/2 videos. VCD and SVCD, and the transcoding of existing mpeg streams.

Nice…

//rabbit/root$ /mnt/rabbitc smbfs rw,user,noauto,username=xxx,password=yyy 0 0

After a long time spent to set it up, printing still is not great! I really support Linux, but as long as getting such a simple thing to work takes several “mandays” of qualified comp. engineers, it really won’t make it to desktops.

We’ve started to understand Linux printing system better and better. If I think about all lpd/lpq/xprint/cups, I come to think that some things are more complicated than they should be