To find the process ID from a running process use this command:

Replace "pst" with the process name you are looking for

If you make a recording of your desktop using gtk-recordMyDesktop you get a screencast file in .ovg format. With memcoder you can convert that easy to a mpeg format using this command.

Synposis

This is a solution for torrent downloaders with btdownloadcurses and the machines has to be rebooted. The script saves all running downloads every X minutes to a file. After reboot you can easily start the torrent-downloads again.

Summery

If you want to resize your photos it's simple to use resize tool in gThumb. Unfortunately gThumb deletes all the EXIF data like date and time the photo was taken.

To keep all EXIF data I use convert (from imagemagic)

Steps to kill pulsaudio.
Solution for when there is no sound and the soundservers is blocked by pulseaudio

On my desktop machine I have frequently a problem with Pulseaudio. After playing a flash movie (Youtube) it happens very often that I have no audio anymore on my Moviplayers like Movie Player or VLC.

The solution for this problem is to kill all Pluseaudio processes.

If you want to resize multiply images to a other (smaller) size you can use this command.

It's not recommend to enlarge pictures because that will have a negative effect on the quality of the enlarged image.

* time: gives you the time the command was busy. This is optional.

Add subtiltes to a new outputfile.
incl. resizeable subtitles, percentage from picture hight. So it can be shown on the Philips media player

Playing a movie with "hot" added subtitles.

Use this command:

Find and Replace in multiply files.

including a Back-Up

Or no Back-up

# -e execute this command
# -p loop over each line and print
# -i inplace edit, make a backup file

This is about rename (mp3) files with the command line in Linux to a nice format.

Change the first character of each word tot uppercase
Suppose your filename is something like:

04 - cymballistic - blues for sarah.mp3

and you want to change that to:

04 - Cymballistic - Blues For Sarah.mp3

Use this command.