Story of success: Japan, Robots

Japan, the worlds second largest economy can be easily presented as first when talking about technology. Japan lacks natural resources (no oil-some fish) but develops some high tech that in U.s can't be matched. However possible earthquake is still danger for advanced high tech from Tokyo. In Europe Japan culture can be seen in anime (cartoons), video games, some gadgets (Casio) even cars (Toyota)

As seen on graph high density of robots is also found in Singapore and south Korea.

how to run application from terminal and continue using terminal

xine &

will keep your terminal window usable so you won't need to open another one.

CTRL+z will stop application that can be resumed to background with "bg" and number that is returned when stopping application (job).

how to update NTFS-3g

1.type into terminal
sudo apt-get remove ntfs-3g
2. download latest copy of ntfs-3g from their website http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#download
3. (if you already installed basic compiler tools better for you) extract file to directory, open terminal in directory and:

    a. ./configure
    b. make
    c. make install      # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root
(for version 2009.1.1)
you may want to put sudo ahead if problems
 
i had problem with disc space so had to empty some space in tmp directory

Simple way to play DVDs with menus on linux

1.get a copy of vlc portable (for windows)
2. open it with wine
3. enjoy menus, iso files, etc

Reasons to switch to linux

1. you don't want to retun

2. transfer will cost you time and you will learn some linux tricks

3. linux compatibility (and development level) may be lower so you are not into exotic (and latest) hardware and software (also some games have troubles)

if one can satisfy these possibly one wont regret installing linux distribution

Start seamonkey composer from terminal

seamonkey -edit `pwd`/MYFILE.html

OR

seamonkey -edit

will start Seamonkey html editor in console

how to search for files bigger than some size in directory

find  -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

will return files bigger than 50000k in current dir and subdirectories

example:you can search your mp3 collection for files bigger than 50Mb to recover some disc space