Converting multiple video files recursively and in parallel on linux - Using ffmpeg and parallel

After starting using linux for gaming instead of windows, i needed to bring my games to linux, including clone hero. Most things worked flawlessly but some video background didn't. After searching, i found that linux clone hero backgroud videos should be webm, and some of mine where in mp4. After...

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Como baixar um site inteiro com sublinks / subpastas automaticamente

Ao pesquisar por sites antigos para um projeto, me vi na necessidade de salvar um específico para acesso offline/arquivamento, pois aquele conteúdo não estava mais disponível em outros locais para fácil acesso e o site poderia sair do ar a qualquer momento. Ao pesquisar, vi o Wget como boa alternativa,...

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Adaptador WIFI USB wn723n não funcionando corretamente no linux

Ao utilizar o adaptador de wifi usb da tp link wn723n no meu zorin os 15 e 16, baseados no ubuntu 18.04 e 20.04, notei que a conexão era instável e lenta. Assim como no Windows 7, o ubuntu instala um driver da versão americana automaticamente (v1 e v2) ao invés da versão brasileira/europeia (v3).  Para...

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Install Epson Printer Driver on Linux

After trying to print multiple copies of a page using linux on my epson l575 printer, i noticed that only the first page was printed, and sometimes with a white page on the beggining. Eventough Linux-based distros usually installs a network printer automatically, there are some options that are not...

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Open your applications menu from the dock on linux

After installing Ubuntu Mate and customizing it with some themes, icons and a dock (Plank), i realized that i couldn't access the applications menu (Brisk) neither find a easy tutorial for doing it, so these are the steeps i did for getting it. First you'll need "xdotool", you can install it in Ubuntu...

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Install latest version of java on linux (JDK and JRE) easily

After looking for the latest version of java to install on my linux system (Java 17 when i'm writting this), i found a really interesting tool to install any version of java available for linux with no harassment, that is SDKMan installer. First download and install SKDMan with the commands on...

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Renaming invalid variables on Stata

After exporting an R database to Stata, the variables were like below, with "." in their names. Trying to rename them, resulted on the error: You used . in oldname, not newname. . is used in newname to indicate that the corresponding wildcard in oldname be skipped. E.g., "rename a*b*...

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