Petr’s blog about Linux

I’m using my old Palm TX to navigate during my travels. I don’t have GPS, but I usually get some maps from the web, store them as jpg and view on Palm as a picture. I had problems to get big maps from Google to jpg, because all screen snapshot programs can only get actual [...]

I found nice page http://www.hd-trailers.net/ accessing HD trailers from Yahoo or Apple through downloadable mov files. It’s quite useful to have mov files instead of using flash player especially if you have slower Internet connection. Here is short wget command which download mov files from Apple site into directories: #!/bin/bash #480, 720, 1080 RESOLUTION=480 wget [...]

I installed BOINC to my server to help world with scientific problems. It’s really easy to install it through from repositories of various distributions, but it’s not so easy to configure it. Usually you can use BOINC manager to configure BOINC. Unfortunately it is graphical application and it uses port 31416 to connect to local/remote [...]