Miscellany

Finding information about your mobile phone

Open the dial pad and type the following -

*# *#4636# *# *

And you'll see various hidden things about your mobile.

Convert a .mkv file to a .avi

Command line to convert a MKV file to a smaller xVid AVI file, by reducing the video bit rate and audio quality...

avconv -y -i input_file.mkv -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag xvid -b 1152k -mbd rd -flags +mv4+aic
-trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -acodec mp2 -ab 128k -ac 2 -ar 44100 -threads 1 output_file.avi

Kill X!

kill X when ctrl-alt-backspace doesn’t work - alt-PrintScreen-k

How to tell if Network-Manager is running?

ps efl | grep dhcp will give, in my case -

1 S root 2304 1 0 80 0 - 1295 ? Jan02 ? 00:00:00 dhclient -1 -v -pf 
    run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0
0 S boztu 18304 4865 0 80 0 - 887 - 11:34 pts/1
00:00:00 grep --color=auto dhcp