Add Applications to the Startup Programs

Ubuntu:

By adding an application to the Startup Programs, that application will automatically run once Ubuntu has finished booting. This is quite useful for applications such as Gmail Notifier that have a small footprint but provide a useful function to the user.


1. Click System, mouseover Preferences and select Sessions.

2. Under the Startup Programs, click the Add button.

3. Input the Name and the Command that executes the desired application in the appropriate text boxes. If you aren’t sure of the command, click the Browse button and go to the executable. For example, the command you would input for the Gmail Notifier is gmail-notify.

4. Click OK.

5. Click the Close button to exit the Sessions window.

Another way to access iso files

An ISO file is an image of a CD or DVD. You can access the files contained within the ISO (without installing any software or having to burn the image to disc) by mounting the image and unmount the image when you are done with it. Here’s how:


1. Open a terminal window.

2. You will need to create a new directory for your ISO image. Execute the following command in your terminal window:sudo mkdir /media/iso

3. Now execute this command to mount the ISO image:sudo mount -o loop /home/shamanstears/Documents/test.iso

Make sure to change the path in the above command to the path of the desired ISO file.

4. Close the terminal window.

5. Go to the Ubuntu Main Menu.

6. Click Places and select iso.

7. The file browser will open, displaying the contents of the ISO image.

To unmount the file, use this command in a terminal window:sudo umount /media/iso/

source: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2747/ubuntu_how_to_mount_unmount_iso_files/

Working with virtual cdroms

The most handy gui tool for mounting and handling iso's in Ubuntu is gmount-iso (install via Add/RemoveApplications). You can choose the mount too. Limitations to comparable MS software like Alcohol 120 % and UltraIso is the limitations to the kind of images that are recognized so not .nrg (Nero)or clone cd images. To install as a conversion tool in Wine UltraIso is better suited than Alcohol, according to Wine APPdb

AcetoneISO, virtual cdrom in Ubuntu

AcetoneISO, you can convert : .bin, .mdf, .nrg , .img , .daa , .cdi , .xbx , .b5i , .bwi , .pdi to .iso and then mount them easily. For more infos, you can check out : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/acetoneiso , I know, it's in french, but the commands are still the same. You just need to have before installing : kommander, kdebase-bin, kdelibs4c2a, konsole, konqueror, p7zip and fuseiso. For the ones like me who'd like to mount their isos.

Downloadlink for deb: linkhttp://downloads.sourceforge.net/acetoneiso2/acetoneiso2_2.0.2-20080602_i386.deb?use_mirror=osdn

Sun PDF Import Adds PDF Editing to OpenOffice

Sun PDF Import Adds PDF Editing to OpenOffice
By Adam Pash, 1:00 PM on Wed Oct 22 2008, 7,264 views

OpenOffice.org only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Sun PDF Import extension imports and edits PDFs with the free Microsoft Office alternative OO.org. Rather than import the PDFs into the Writer program, the extension works with OO.org's Draw application. Once imported, you can still edit text or other portions of the document. The extension isn't perfect, but it appears to be under active development and could come in really handy under the right circumstances. The Sun PDF Import extension is free, works wherever OpenOffice.org 3.0 does. If you're looking to add more great functionality to OpenOffice.org, check out previously mentioned extensions like OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs, Writer's Tools, and LanguageTool. Want to learn more about whether OO.org can replace Office, check out our first look at the latest release.

http://lifehacker.com/5067125/sun-pdf-import-adds-pdf-editing-to-openofficeorg

install open office 3 in Hardy

Howto: Openoffice 3 in Hardy Heron (8.04)
A note for this tutorial: if you are using a language other than English the exact commands that I post here won't work, but you can substitute for non-English file names.

This tutorial is written assuming you want to keep the 2.4 version on your box.

I choose to uninstall version 2.4 via Synaptic

Step 1 - Download

Go to http://download.openoffice.org/other.html and download the file in your language (english) under the "Linux DEB" column. Save in your home directory.

Step 2 - Install

Open a terminal in Applications - Accessories - Terminal and run:
Code:

tar xvfz OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb


step 3:

Code:

cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/desktop-integration

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

source http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982652

HjSplit for Linux

lxSplit splits and merges files with the -s and -j flags respectively. Starting with version 0.2.1, lxSplit can handle large files (>= 4 GB) both when splitting and joining.

Examples:

To split a big file into smaller pieces of 15 MB each, run the following command:

lxsplit -s hugefile.bin 15M

Output size can be given in (M)egabytes, (k)ilobytes and (b)ytes.



To merge (join) the already split pieces into the original big file, run this command:

lxsplit -j smallfiles.bin.001


Download

lxSplit is free software and is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.

The latest version is 0.2.4.

* Source tarball: lxsplit-0.2.4.tar.gz
* Source RPM : lxsplit-0.2.4-1.src.rpm
* i386 Linux RPM (built on RedHat 9): lxsplit-0.2.4-1.i386.rpm
* x86_64 Linux RPM (built on Fedora6): lxsplit-0.2.4-1.x86_64.rpm
* i386 Debian package: lxsplit_0.2.4-1_i386.deb
The deb package was provided by Christopher Lunsford. See his site for possible updates.
See debian-multimedia.org for more deb packages of lxsplit.

source: http://lxsplit.sourceforge.net/