Extracting Audio from Youtube Videos (.flv files) on a GNU/Linux System

I am not explaining the way to download youtube videos.

Install ffmpeg package if not installed yet. Fire up a terminal and issue this command to install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Steer to the folder where you have downloaded the youtube video (the .flv file) and issue the following command (match the command parameter colors with [...]

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National “non-free” Software Conference @ CUSAT

Q0. Why the fuss?
A free software activist and former student at CUSAT, Anivar Aravind was manhandled today (16/11/2008) by the “National free software conference organizers” @ CUSAT with assistance from the states police forces (UPDATE from Anivar: State Police force wasn’t used), for his peaceful protest against the “Novell Sponsorship”. The free software conference is [...]

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East India Company reincarnated…

NOTE:- This post is not just for Indians, but for every men and women who cares about FREEDOM and SOVEREIGNTY.
(1) This company is infamous for the dirty tricks it played to monopolize the market. (Link1, Link 2, Link 3)
(2) This company is famous for its “idiot-friendly” products which claims to be user-friendly dumbofying smart people.
(3) [...]

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Microsoft is growing (like root)

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics

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In Love with Linux…

At last an Orkut-free post. As per the request of ‘Madhavan sir‘ I thought of posting something related to Linux. So, when I speak about Linux, don’t think that I am a Linux geek. I am a free software enthusiast, and had worked with Linux many times in the past. But, still I don’t think I deserve the name ‘geek‘.
I started my [...]

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