IT ...

Tasked to look for alternatives to Matlab, I haven't touched Matlab for long time. Anyway, google tells me Octave. Command for a start before you "edit" your own functions.

path ('~/octave') # put your src directory in LOADPATH, <-- Bug?
edit home '~/myproject' # if not using default.
edit editor "gedit %s &" # default emacs, can set vim also

1. Encode sound to make sure it's mp3, skip video to get a .avi with sound only.
mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc frameno -o aa1.avi vts1.vob

2. Dump the raw sound out from .avi
mplayer -ao pcm mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy -dumpaudio -dumpfile aa1.mp3 aa1.avi

http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html

This great solution allow us to deploy Linux into the sea of windows.
With the little help from pam_mkhomedir.so,

session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0022

Fedora Core using dhclient.

/etc/dhclient.conf

send fqdn.fqdn "mylinux.domain.local.";
send fqdn.encoded off;
send fqdn.server-update off;