Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is now disabled

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is key combination to restart X. But for Ubuntu users from Alpha5 of Jaunty Jackalope, this shortcut will be disabled. This can be enabled from xorg.conf or or via the command dontzap --disable.

The main reason for disabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut is to protect newbies from accidentally restarting X.

MASTER LIST #8: The 101 Greatest Action Movies

I discovered in doing this list that the action genre was really born in the 1960s. Before then, most movie "action" came in the form of war movies, westerns, film noir, and serials (to which the #1 film on the list is a complete homage). When the long-dominating western started to lose steam in the late 60s, the action genre--which, for the most part, is a wildly-differing urban-based one--

MASTER LIST #8: The 101 Greatest Action Movies

I discovered in doing this list that the action genre was really born in the 1960s. Before then, most movie "action" came in the form of war movies, westerns, film noir, and serials (to which the #1 film on the list is a complete homage). When the long-dominating western started to lose steam in the late 60s, the action genre--which, for the most part, is a wildly-differing urban-based one--

MASTER LIST #7: The 101 Greatest War Movies

An amazing list of movies here, I guess because war is perhaps the most dramatic of subjects. I didn't include documentaries or films with war as a peripheral subject (like Casablanca or The Best Years of Our Lives). So here, based on (1) quality, (2) relevance to genre, and (3) influence, are the results: 1) Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 57) 2) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 79) 3)

MASTER LIST #7: The 101 Greatest War Movies

An amazing list of movies here, I guess because war is perhaps the most dramatic of subjects. I didn't include documentaries or films with war as a peripheral subject (like Casablanca or The Best Years of Our Lives). So here, based on (1) quality, (2) relevance to genre, and (3) influence, are the results: 1) Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 57) 2) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 79) 3)

2009 Academy Awards: The Overview

Well, I'm sort of all Oscared out, as I blogged about it live here on The Flaming Nose. But I do wanna mention my top Oscar moments:1) Anne Hathaway playing "Nixon" in Hugh Jackman's opening number. 2) Danny Boyle hopping like Tigger upon his win. 3) Sean Penn claiming fellow nominee Mickey Rourke as "his brother."4) Anne Hathaway, teary-eyed, thanking Shirley MacLaine for her comments about

2009 Academy Awards: The Overview

Well, I'm sort of all Oscared out, as I blogged about it live here on The Flaming Nose. But I do wanna mention my top Oscar moments:1) Anne Hathaway playing "Nixon" in Hugh Jackman's opening number. 2) Danny Boyle hopping like Tigger upon his win. 3) Sean Penn claiming fellow nominee Mickey Rourke as "his brother."4) Anne Hathaway, teary-eyed, thanking Shirley MacLaine for her comments about

Convert line break between Linux and Windows

If you are both Linux's and Window's user then you must know that Linux and Windows uses different line breaks.

So If you type something in Linux and open in Window or vice versa then your line will not break properly.

However you can easily convert between them. You can either use powerful sed or with a simple program tofrodos.

To convert Linux line break to Windows type:

unix2dos filename.txt

To convert Windows line break to Linux type:

dos2unix filename.txt

Use -b option if you want to backup the file before changes are made.

Use it with find command to perform changes in multiple files.

Moon Passages

The waning and waxing Moon create beautiful close encounters with the planets in the coming days. In the pre-dawn skies the ever-thinning waning crescent passes near to Mercury, Jupiter and Mars, and a few days later after the new moon, the waxing crescent passes close to the brilliant evening "star" Venus.

MASTER LIST #6: The 101 Greatest Musicals

In thinking about the best musicals, I had to reflect, of course, on the traditional view we all have of the genre--you know, those kind of movies with people rather surrealistically breaking out into song. But I also felt I had to mix in nods to musical bio-pics, animated films, films in which instrumental music was central to the picture, and films in which dancing--sans singing--takes center

MASTER LIST #6: The 101 Greatest Musicals

In thinking about the best musicals, I had to reflect, of course, on the traditional view we all have of the genre--you know, those kind of movies with people rather surrealistically breaking out into song. But I also felt I had to mix in nods to musical bio-pics, animated films, films in which instrumental music was central to the picture, and films in which dancing--sans singing--takes center

Next version of Ubuntu announced

Next version of Ubuntu 9.10 is announced. It's going to be called Karmic Koala. Yes the next version of Ubuntu 9.10 is going to be called Karmic Koala.

Hear it from Mark Shuttleworth himself,
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1831

Comet Lulin

A comet is making its way across the Solar System and is reaching its best viewing in the next few days. Comet Lulin was discovered in 2007 and is now reaching its peak brightness as it moves into "opposition" on February 25th, the date it is exactly opposite the Sun from our Earth-bound point of view. On that date it will be visible in the evening sky near Saturn in the constellation Leo. Sky and Telescope Magazine has a great writeup on the comet.

MASTER LIST #5: The 150 Greatest Comedies

Since, unlike with many genres, comedies have been steadily produced since the advent of the camera, and routinely take up half of every video store's catalogue, I decided to expand my usual 101 films on these lists to a fairer 150. Even with this extension (which I will only use again with my master list on DRAMAS), this was a VERY difficult list to make, mostly because it really forced me to

MASTER LIST #5: The 150 Greatest Comedies

Since, unlike with many genres, comedies have been steadily produced since the advent of the camera, and routinely take up half of every video store's catalogue, I decided to expand my usual 101 films on these lists to a fairer 150. Even with this extension (which I will only use again with my master list on DRAMAS), this was a VERY difficult list to make, mostly because it really forced me to

Usb support in Virtual Box

If you are going to use Sun Virtual Box to use USB device in guest OS then you should be aware that the default installation doesn't gives you that option.

If you Google, there are many people offering many suggestion, some working for few people and some not.

Well, I tried the same in Intrepid Ibex Ubuntu Linux, but none of the suggestion worked for me.

So the most simple thing that I did and worked was read the manual and found there are two version of Virtual Box.

You can see the differences between them by going to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

Don't do anything with /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules, /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh or /etc/fstab.

open /etc/apt/sources.list
add "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free" to it.
Also I recommend you to add VirtualBox GPG key.

Then update by typing, "sudo aptitude update"

Remove old virtual box if you have installed by "sudo aptitude remove virtualbox-ose"
Install newer virtual box by "sudo aptitude install virtualbox-2.1"

The setup will ask you to add yourself or the VirtualBox user to vboxusers group, do so.

That's it.
Run virtual box and you should see USB settings.

Debian Lenny Released

This year's valentine gift from Debian side is the Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 codenamed Lenny.

I comes after 22 months of constant development.

Read more:
http://debian.org/News/2009/20090214

filmicability gets the Dardos!

I can't think of a better way to celebrate my blog's one-year anniversary than to get cited for a blogging award--the Dardos--from one of my most treasured cohorts, Tony Dayoub over at Cinema Viewfinder. He said of me and the other four writers he cited: "These folks give me new insight into the world of cinema on an almost daily basis, and all are great writers to boot." To say the least, I'm

filmicability gets the Dardos!

I can't think of a better way to celebrate my blog's one-year anniversary than to get cited for a blogging award--the Dardos--from one of my most treasured cohorts, Tony Dayoub over at Cinema Viewfinder. He said of me and the other four writers he cited: "These folks give me new insight into the world of cinema on an almost daily basis, and all are great writers to boot." To say the least, I'm

On Valentine's Day: Romance on Film

Valentine's Day (or, as I like to call it, "Sex Day") is here again, to the delight of the attached and the consternation of the unattached. So today I'll be recommending videos that might help both the bitter and the romantically satisfied through the holiday. Now, the problem with most movie romances is that they fail to give compelling reasons why the two people in question have fallen for

On Valentine's Day: Romance on Film

Valentine's Day (or, as I like to call it, "Sex Day") is here again, to the delight of the attached and the consternation of the unattached. So today I'll be recommending videos that might help both the bitter and the romantically satisfied through the holiday. Now, the problem with most movie romances is that they fail to give compelling reasons why the two people in question have fallen for

./configure: 123: Syntax error: Bad fd number"

While compiling fftv I got a strange error.

./configure: 123: Syntax error: Bad fd number"

The fix for this is:

sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.bkp
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Way Overrated: FROST/NIXON and MILK

It's usually my policy not to talk about movies I don't like on filmicability. But I just spend 25 bucks and 5 hours on an incredibly disappointing 70s-politics-double-feature. Milk and Frost/Nixon are predictably but wrongfully vying for Best Picture at this year's woeful Oscar ceremonies. I say woeful because, if these are two of the movies Hollywood thinks are their best efforts, then the

Way Overrated: FROST/NIXON and MILK

It's usually my policy not to talk about movies I don't like on filmicability. But I just spend 25 bucks and 5 hours on an incredibly disappointing 70s-politics-double-feature. Milk and Frost/Nixon are predictably but wrongfully vying for Best Picture at this year's woeful Oscar ceremonies. I say woeful because, if these are two of the movies Hollywood thinks are their best efforts, then the