Download google books to pdf

If you find a book on books.google.com sometimes it would be better to save them forexample in pdf for further reading instead read them online. You can do it with a small work.

Checnk out Google Book Downloader, this small Greasemonkey script. With this and FlashGot you can download the books side-by-side in jpg and png. Then you can convert them to pdf or ps if you like. For this latest step I use a self written bash script with jpegtopnm, pngtopnm, pnmtops and gs.

rms

I was on a Richard Stallman speach about Copyright vs Community in the age of network Computing. It was fantastic. rms is a very nice, funny and honest person. It was nice to listen to.

I am also purchased a GNU keyring to proudly support the FSF.

Wuala filesystme integration setup under Ubuntu

You need to install some packages with

sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common

And then setup your mounting point in /etc/fstab by adding and editing the following line

localhost:/wuala /home/yourname/wuala/direct nfs
defaults,users,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,nolock,soft

(Note: This is one line I just braked it to fit on screen.)