Nintendo NES Emulator in Debian

Remember the good old days when we play the Nintendo games  like Mario,Ninja Gaiden.,still interested to play the old Nintendo games and in Debian then there are two emulators we can use one is FCEUX and the other is mednafen. mednafen is available in the repo a simple apt-get will install mednafen in your computer.mednafen can be run by issuing the following command.
$mednafen  /poath/to/rom.nes
to make use of joystick install joystick from repo and run jscal to calibrate your joystick and can run your game but my favorite is the FCEUX and it has graphical interface called gfceux.
To install Fceux following dependency is to be satisfied
Pulse audio, scons, libsdl1.2-dev, libsdl1.2debian-esd, liblua5.1-dev, zlib1g-dev zenity.
run scons to build and scons install as root to install. To run Fceux
open terminal then run by
$fceux  /path/to/rom.nes
If you want a GUI then downlaod GFceux  and install by running
#python setup.py install
you can run GFceux Applications----->Games------>FCEUX NES Emulator
Happy Gaming :)

Installing Draftsight in Debian 64 bit

Draftsight is a cad program that is compatible to autocad in linux but is only available in 32-bit but we can make it run in 64 bit by following these commands.
Dependency to be satisfied first:

libaudio2,  libdirectfb-extra and libxcb-render-util0 and ia32-libs

now open terminal become root 

dpkg -i --force-architecture DraftSight.deb

it will install draftsight 

after installation it will be available in Applications--->Graphics menu  

and should be activated within 30 days.It is free though :) .

Thanks to:  http://courira.ca/en/2011/03/draftsight-for-linux-how-to-install-on-ubuntu-64-bit

Also look out for Brics-cad pro and Ares commander edition both offer cad  for linux 

in both 32-bit architecture full version is available for a price though.

Manga Downloader in Debian Gnu/Linux

Download Domdomsoft manga downloader.
It is built for windows but can run in linux by using mono as it is a .NET app
Download and install mono from the Debian repository
open terminal and change the directory to were domdomsoft manga downloader is located and run

ben@debian:~/manga$mono domdomsoft.exe

                                OR
you can run through wine
download winetricks from http://winetricks.org/winetricks by running
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
make it executable
dependency-----wine
run winetricks
it has links to microsoft .netv2, v3 ,mono and other microsoft libraries download and install mono using winetricks
the config files of the manga downloader has to be in home folder
now run
wine /path/to/domdomsoft.exe

Installing Mondo in Debian 6

Mondoresue is a backup program which is more flexible than the others. It is a ncurses based backup program. Debian removed the mondo backup program from the stable repositories but only available in sid.For those who want to install mondo in debian stable add the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/debian 6.0 contrib

then use apt-get update,apt-get install
it will install the program mondo
thanks to:http://www.ithowto.ro/2010/03/howto-install-mondo-rescue-debian-lenny-5-0-apt-get/

Plymouth In Debian Squeeze

Debian squeeze now officially dropped splashy and usplash for the boot splash and included the Plymouth boot splash as it's default.Plymouth when installed it is not enabled by default
these are the following steps to enable Plymouth
Become root.
Install v86d package.
1. Edit the  /etc/default/grub file

Replace GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="..."
by GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1280x1024-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap"
Replace #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
by GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024
Notice that grub2 supports different resolutions so you can put there a list
and grub2 will choose the first working one. (debian-edu grub background
image should be updated)

2. edit the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
by adding  a line containing: uvesafb mode_option=1280x1024-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap

3. echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
add "i915 modeset=1" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
Now you have the default setted theme.
/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme --list (list available themes)
/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme THEME (change theme)

4. update-grub2
update-initramfs -u (apply to initramfs)

Top 10 commands a user must Know

1. su

 The command su gives the user full access as an administrator  and can install and update system.

2. cp

The command cp is used to copy files and folders.If the folders have multiple files;the argument r is to be used.

usage:

cp  /home/xy  /opt  -r

3.mv

This command is used to move the files,equivalent of the cut command in windows

4.rm

This command is used to delete the files

5.cat

this command is used to view the configuration files in the command line.

6.halt

This command  is used to shutdown the  system

7.reboot

This command is used to restart the system.

8.kill

This command is used to stop the process.

9.ps

  ps displays information about a selection of the active processes

usage:to see the every process

ps -e

10.man

This command is  the system help utility and gives  reference manuals on all process and applications.