Converting .mkv to .avi

Damn, getting a software for this job was hell. A free software I meant. Finally the search paid results when I found AlltoAVI at SourceForge.

Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alltoavi/

Credits to genesis_kiith for the software, and spinner's_end for bugging me enough to find this gem.

Other links:
Project Home Page

Tutorial

PS: This software should be described as "Any format to AVI converter" . Bad post title. :)

Google Talk formatting/effects : Bold and Italics

This is yet another one of those short posts for the sake of posting.

Before you cry out that these are very well known, I can promise you that I discovered these in my experiments. Well, proceed.

Are you bored with the plain text in GTalk? Try these, you can add bold and italics effects to your text.

To give a word/phrase a bold effect, just enclose it within asterisks (Example: *me* would produce me ).
To give a word/phrase a italics effect, enclose it within underscores (Example: _me_ would produce me ).

Comix : "Could not find unrar executable. Please install it if you wish to open RAR achives"

Comix is the software used to open *.cbr and *.cbz files on Linux.

In Windows Comic Reader was my favorite but now that I have completely moved on to Linux, installation of Comix was deemed necessary.

Comix by default can open *.cbz files.

To open *.cbr files using Comix, you need to install the unrar executable by the following procedure.

$sudo apt-get install unrar

Done. :)