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This is a great thing because I can put all these MP3 clips onto my phone and play this music wherever I go. https://bytefreaks.net/gnulinux/bash/ffmpeg-extract-audio-from-mkv-to-mp3 find . -type f -name “*.mkv” -exec bash -c ‘FILE=”$1″; ffmpeg -i “${FILE}” -vn -c:a libmp3lame -y “${FILE%.mkv}.mp3”;’ _ ‘{}’ ; The script goes through the current folder and all subfolders…

As I have written before, but I think really apart from interacting with friends, Facebook is a giant experiment and not one that actually achieves a lot of good. The whole premise of Facebook is to be bigger than anyone else and to churn fantastic profits from advertising. The “social media” is about creating a…

One year ago almost exactly I wrote about using VNC with a couple of home computers. My computer arrangement after that date was changed and remote access was not needed between two rooms of the house. However this week I have decided there are scenarios for remoting from the bedroom to the lounge where three…

Thunderbird doesn’t provide a user interface for changing the order of accounts in the left hand pane, but Config Editor can be used to change it. See the guide here In my case I have 11 accounts listed including the two special ones, so basically 9 email accounts. I expect to tidy all that up…

Well the day arrived when I needed a download manager to handle tricky downloads so here we are. After some trial and error uget which is in the standard repositories turns out to be a good gui based download manager. It can be integrated into Firefox with the FlashGot extension. I also had to install…