http://blog.zbeba.com Random nothingness, courtesy of The Man Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:03:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is one of those things I only do occasionally, so here's a note on how to do it. rpm2cpio rpmarchive.rpm | cpio -idmv This should extract the entire rpm into the current dir, so make sure you are in a clean dir before you do this. The rpm2cpio command should ... http://blog.zbeba.com/2008/04/04/extract-an-rpm/ Some months ago, launched a huge, DRM-free catalog of songs and albums available in MP3 format. Now they have released their download client for Linux in native formats for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE. The client is not required to download individual songs, but only for entire albums. ... http://blog.zbeba.com/2008/03/10/amazons-mp3s-available-for-linux-now/ I stumbled upon this invaluable gem: http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/how_to_linux_and_open_source.htm It is a page of over 200 tips and tricks for all sorts of *nix and opensource goodies, like this: TIP 70: Generating Random Numbers. $ od -vAn -N4 -tu4 < /dev/urandom ... http://blog.zbeba.com/2006/11/16/found-unixlinux-gold/ On FC5 (don't have FC6 yet), if you don't have the rpm for "koffice-filters" installed, you won't be able to open up anything except native Krita files. I believe that these filters are packaged separately because they are maintained separately from Krita, since they are used by other KOffice ... http://blog.zbeba.com/2006/11/07/support-for-non-krita-png-jpg-etc-files-in-krita/ Need to make multiple PDFs into one? Here is an easy way to do it with Ghostscript: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf After scanning a few documents, I converted the resulting individual PNGs into PDFs and then used the command above to make a single, multi-page PDF. Here's a ... http://blog.zbeba.com/2006/11/04/merging-pdfs/