Author Archives for c00i90wn
OneLiner: Extract audio from YouTube.com video. (FLV)
Downloaded a youtube.com video but only want the audio? First install ffmpeg for your system.
ffmpeg -title “my_title” -i filename.flv -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 128 -vn -y filename.mp3
HowTo: Using Exim4 to send messages through Gmail
Wow a long time passed since I last wrote an article here. I was planning a “HowTo: Start fresh with Windows and don’t lose anything.” but then I stopped using Windows and moved to GNU/Linux instead. Well things have changed and now you have this article instead which actually is an adaptation of the debian […]
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How To: Transfer your PuTTY settings between computers
Quoting what Grant Robertson said in the article and that I share with him:
“PuTTY is tops on the short list of applications I install first on any Windows machine. Over the years I’ve used PuTTY, I’ve installed it on a huge number of computers but I’ve always had one complaint; There isn’t a configuration file […]
Converting video in linux using ffmpeg and mencoder
I’ve always looked for a good tutorial on how to convert video from anything to VCD or DVD in an easy way and from CLI and that’s also easy to understand what’s going on. For that matter some time ago I’ve found this article and now I want to share it with you.
Converting video in […]
Remove Windows Messenger
This is an easy tip and easy to find too, but as I recently needed it and the whole idea of this site is saving the steps of steps that are useful for me I’ll post it here.
Open the Start Menu
Click on Run… to open the Run Dialog.
Enter the following command:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
and hit OK.
Enjoy […]
Update Wordpress in 5 easy steps.
After Wordpress 2.1 came out I was a little bit keen about updating it but after finding this article I thought I would give it a try and it’s now working flawlessly so I thought I could post about the article to give the author some credit.
Install Tracks on Ubuntu or Debian
This time we are going to learn how to install Tracks, a Getting Things Done™ implementation, that I use it and like a lot. We are going to install it on an Apache2 web server with FastCGI, using MySQL as the database engine, and of course we also have to install Ruby On Rails because […]
Compile Psi on Windows
This HowTo is not for newbies!
In this post I’m going to explain how to compile the development Psi version for everyone that likes to live on the edge. Psi is a multi-platform jabber client, that in my humble opinion is the best one out there. It provides with most of the features that jabber can […]


