Get free Google Wave invites

Got 24 of them, don’t know where to send them, just post a comment and you will get one
PS: Your IP’s will be checked for duplicates, so please dont try getting more than one, you will get more invites yourself anyway…

Connect to wep with terminal

$ iwconfig wlan0 essid key s:
$ dhclient wlan0

Get Spotify account without invitation!

Since Im located in Norway, I’m not allowed to create a free account without invites. But, if you “pretend” to be british through a proxy, the job is done!

Before the job was a little worse, but now you can try this site:

http://spotify.rejected.se/?proxy

Just follow the instruction and be a happy Spotify owner.

Connect to wpa with terminal (ubuntu)

assuming your wirelesscontroller is named “wlan0″

First, stop network-manager:

sudo /etc/init.d/networkmanager stop

Then make a config for wpa_supplicant:

wpa_passphrase "ssid" "password" > wpaconfig
sudo wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -cwpaconfig

When you see from the output that you are connected, press [ctrl+z] to run wpa_supplicant in the background temporarily and type $bg to run it in background.
To be assigned to a IP:

sudo dhclient wlan0

What is Google Wave – A perfect introduction to this astonishing project!

Please, if you want to be a part of the future, read a little at http://wave.google.com, register for an invite as soon as Google can send them out to us mortals, and watch these to movies!

    

It is open source and the possibilities with this HTML5-based application is almost indefinite… I think… Cant wait for this to release full scale. For us students and other people that will be working on several projects, collaborating with colagues from different countries and so on, this is just perfect!
And to all you engineers out there; it’s open source! Put your name on something and start writing good apps!

Personas – Skins for firefox

Was quite impressed with the Personas addon for firefox. Its really simple to use and uses very little resources.

Please visit : http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/

Extract sound from video e.g youtube

Download the video, using e.g clive, then enter the following line:

$ mplayer -vo null -ao pcm:file="audio_output":fast "video_file"

Transfer files via SSH

There are a lot more simpler ways to do this operation, you can e.g use nautilus and type in address:

sftp://user:password@IP

or you can use an sftp-application like FileZilla. If you are a little more curious, do it the shell-way:

$ scp /din/lokale/filplassering/fil.txt bruker@IP-adresse:/servers/disk/plassering/fil.txt

scp is a standard shell-command and is an acronym for secure cp (copy)

SUN’s Java for firefox

The standard java-plugin that comes with firefox for ubuntu have several I heard of had problems with, especially regarding netbanks. This is how you install SUN’s Java for your ff:

First thing, remove all installed java plugins:

$sudo apt-get remove -y icedtea-gcjwebplugin openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-lib

Install SUNs java:

$sudo apt-get install --reinstall -y sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Make SUN system standard:

$sudo update-alternatives --auto java

Make SUN standard in web browser:

$sudo update-alternatives --auto xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so

Restart firefox/opera:

$pkill firefox

Alternative to ConvertXtoDVD for Ubuntu (XviD to DVD etc)

ConvertXtoDVD for windows has been working excellent, but it didnt work out quite well under wine so I figured something had to work out native in Ubuntu. I found DeVeDe:

It’s an ease to use and you can install it from apt:

$ sudo apt-get install devede