Convert .wmv to .avi on Linux

On Ubuntu:  sudo apt-get install mencoder

On  Fedora:  yum install mencoder

mencoder name_of_the_file.wmv -ofps 29.97 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o name_of_the_file.avi

Griffith

Griffith is a media collection manager application. You can add items to the collection as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web.
You can download it here and is a cross-platform application.

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Login us root and run this commands

#yumdownloader –disablerepo=updates,updates-testing dbus dbus-x11 dbus-libs
#rpm -Uhv dbus* –oldpackage

Open – View .chm in Linux

Install chm viewer
Use apt-get or yum command to install chm viewer:
# yum install gnochm (for gnome)
Or
# yum install kchmviewer (for kde)
Or
# yum install xchm (for xfce)

DD – clone disk

The most old fashion way to ghost-clone disks :)

DD

user : cat /proc/partitions     to check your partitions

Remount (Write permission) if ur using usb device or cd rom

mount -n -o remount,rw /live/image

Save the image to /live/Imges/file.img

Create image
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/backup.img  create

To extract the image :
dd if=/mnt/sdb1/backup.img of=/dev/sda