Its not quite obvious how to change the default size of gnome-terminal from the gconf-editor menu. The terminal itself is a subset of xterm. Gnome-terminal is an xterm emulator, and it follows a termcap file for this.
On gnome based distributions (Fedora/SUSE/Debian/Ubuntu etc.) do the following:
sudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm
There’s a lot of stuff in this file you probably don’t want to touch, but you can change the line that describes the terminal geometry:
xterm-xfree86|xterm-new|xterm terminal emulator (XFree86):\
:am:km:mi:ms:xn:\
:co#80:it#8:li#24:\
:co#80 specifies 80 columns, and li#24 specifies 24 lines. Change this to 100 and 30 or whatever you want.
:co#100:it#8:li#30:\
Now all terminals should open for this default size.
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Until today’s kernel update to 2.6.28.6, the Atheros wifi card was not functioning correctly. Since the update to new kernel, the wifi card can now be used with the ath5k module which can be found in linux-backports-modules.
In order to get the Atheros 5007EG card to work, you first need to disable the built-in hardware driver.
System >> Administration >> Hardware Drivers > Deactivate “Support for Atheros 802.11 cards”
Selection of Hardware Drivers in Januty
Disable the Support for Atheros 802.11 cards
After the card has been deactivated, open the terminal and install the backports modules for Jaunty.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty
Install Jaunty backports modules
This adds the ath5k module which supports the Atheros 5007EG card.
The computer needs to be Shutdown and powered back on. Somehow Restarting doesn’t work at times. The card has to be completely powered down for a few seconds and then started during power up.
You should be able to see the available wireless network list by clicking on the network manager icon. Thereon, you all know what to do 
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The norm has been to watch live streams over the internet if you are unable to watch a certain program on your TV at a scheduled time. The limitation of these live streams is that you can’t afford to miss anything, cause there is no way to rewind and replay.
Under Windows there are several tools that can capture live streams and save them to a file. These streams are usually broadcasted over the mms:// protocol. Oftentimes, this protocol is wrapped inside a .asx or .wmv wrapper. These wrappers have the information required to fetch the streaming media, either live or recorded.
There is an application in the Universe repository since Gutsy which enables us to store the streaming media as a local file. Its called mimms, and under Intrepid Ibex its running on version 3.2.1-1.
If your universe repository is enable, you can install mimms using aptitude:
$ sudo apt-get install mimms
Using mimms to record streaming media
Once the program is installed, you can do recordings of mms:// streams via terminal. The link of currently streaming video can usually be obtained by right-clicking on the video window and copy-link. To start recording type the copied mms:// link as an argument for mimms, which starts saving the streaming content to your /home/user folder.
$ mimms mms://cnnvideo.streamserver.asx
It displays the size of the output file in real time. You can stop the recording at any time by ctrl-c without damaging the file. This file can then be played using the media player of your choice.
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