Changing the projection of a spatial data using ogr2ogr and gdalwarp

Changing the projection of a shapefile using ogr2ogr :

Download and install ogr/gdal (yes, it's free).

To create output.shp with the WGS84 (4326) projection, use the following syntax :

ogr2ogr output.shp -t_srs "EPSG:4326" input.shp

To simply extract Features 1,2,3 and export into GML :

ogr2ogr output.gml input.tab -f "GML" -where "fid in (1,2,3)"


Similarly, use gdalwarp for raster data :

gdalwarp -t_srs 'EPSG:4326' input.tif output.tif

voilà

Firefox not resizable in Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

The borders of Firefox disappeared. It is not sizeable anymore. Ennoying!

After pressing F11 twice, the problem is gone!

Skype audio problem in Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=976243&highlight=skype+audio+problem

The problem went away when choosing pulse for Sound Out and Ringing and HDA Nvidia (Hw:Nvidia,0) for Sound In.