Clonezilla: Boot from EFI

In this post, I show how to boot clonezilla (iso) from EFI bootloader (Clover) or from USB key with syslinux. You may be familiar with my previous post Boot iso image from GRUB2 or Clonezilla UEFI boot.
This time I have slightly different use case:

• I have working EFI partition with Clover BootLoader on my laptop
• I needed to add Clonezilla to Clover menu, to be able to boot from my HDD

XFCE: some KDE icons are not shown

I've noticed that some icons in KDE Applications are not shown, or replaced by other icons from default gnome set. Solution should be to change icons in the XFCE setting, but if it doesn't work, you can try setting them with gconftool:

gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true

Making Palemoon your default Browser

Weather you are using some weird DE/WM combination, or setting Palemoon as default browser simply does not work, you can try to create following files, to set it up...

Source management tool

Recently I got Linux From Scratch book in my hands and I've built my own distribution. It was a great experience and I've learned a lot about core Linux system. Either way one simple question came to my mind: how can I manage all those packages from source archives?

This topic is mentioned in the book where a few methods are briefly described. Based on this knowledge, I've created a simple package manager.

Creating a self-signed certificate with own CA

This post is a short howto for creating own certification authority (CA) and generating and signing certificate with this CA.

Clonezilla UEFI boot

Clonezilla is awesome tool to backup your data. It has also released images able to boot from UEFI loader. This post shows how to create bootable USB from iso.

Howto: join mp4 files

To join two or more mp4 video files you can use ffmpeg utility, just follow this simple steps:

1. convert mp4 to ts (transport stream) format

ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -c copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts file1.ts

2. join several ts files into one mp4

ffmpeg -i "concat:file1.ts|file2.ts" -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc file12.mp4

•  conversion from other formats to mp4

ffmpeg -i fileOLD.webm -strict -2 fileNEW.mp4