Install HandBrake on Fedora 12
Yes, I’m still using Fedora 12 even though there’s already Fedora 13 and Fedora 14 alpha release. It’s not easy for me to upgrade my OS since a lot of my projects depend on my current environment. I’ll probably try out Fedora 13 or 14 when I already have a spare machine so I can [...]
Convert MKV to AVI using WinFF on Fedora
I’ve been trying to convert MKV files to AVI using Avidemux, but I can’t seem to find the right configuration to convert the files successfully. So I googled for other apps that can do the job, which led me to WinFF. WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert [...]
Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings.
Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. If you are getting this error in any [...]
Install setuptools in Fedora 12
From the Python Package Index page, setuptools allows you to Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages — easily! The PEAK Development Center, setuptools … is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils (for Python 2.3.5 and up on most platforms; 64-bit platforms require a minimum of Python 2.4) that allow you to more [...]
Convert CHM to PDF in (Fedora) Linux
I’ve been looking for a way to print CHM files in (Fedora) Linux, since my CHM file viewer, chmsee, doesn’t have a print option (and probably all other CHM file viewers as well). Searching for CHM to PDF converters in Fedora led me to chm2pdf. chm2pdf has a couple of requirements: chmlib pychm htmldoc To [...]
