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Professional-Level Photography With Linux, And Nobody Goes To Jail
Books, articles, and training courses mostly teach Photoshop as though it were photography itself. Me, I think giving so much as one devalued red cent to Adobe is equivalent to saying "Why yes, I am for corrupt corporate control of everything and vandalism of fundamental civil rights" because of what they did to Dmitry Sklyarov. To this day no one at Adobe has apologized or admitted error; they stubbornly cling to the "we must protect our precious IP" party line. Call me a moldy old hippie, but in my world due process, fairness, and civil rights trump Adobe's precious IP. Which wasn't so precious at all, but closer to laughable.
Install OpenSuse 11 DomU at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 via local HTTP Server (all 64-bit)
The procedure down here has been developed due to virt-install failure to handle OpenSuse 11 PV DomU install at Xen 3.3 (3.2),(3.1) CentOS 5.2 Dom0 either via NFS or HTTP shared directory. Perform initial connect to Apache Server running at Dom0 , deployment and configuration (until first DomU reboot) via profile openSUSE11PV.cfg When OpenSuse DomU first time goes down for reboot, shutdown Suse DomU via “xm” and switch to pygrub profile for loading scp'ed images created via vm-install at OpenSuse 11 Dom0.
Supporting your free software? Don't burn out
Not long ago I watched a free software developer totally lose his cool with a user who (admittedly very frustratingly) posted a “bug report” in Spanish on an English-language project that amounted to “it doesn’t work”. He posted a very sarcastic reply in a couple of random languages (one of them through a machine translator). It was an understandable reaction, and in a way, kind of funny if you could understand all of the languages involved, but it wasn’t exactly good public relations. It was a sure sign of burnout. He had forgotten one important point: you are not obligated to help just because you wrote the thing. Read Terry Hancock's advice to hard-pressed software developers on how to cope at Freesoftware Magazine.
WFTL Bytes! for October 17, 2008
This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 16, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include EVIL androids, EVIL firewalls, EVIL cameras, EVIL content filters, a super fast graphical browser, and some Linux blogs some Linux blogger says you should follow.
Report: Building a Stout, Versatile Linux Small Business Server
Linux has all the power and flexibility you need to power your network, both for servers and networking devices. Carla Schroder shows you how to select hardware, software, and not spend money unnecessarily on pricey commercial software. Which is probably Linux or BSD-based anyway.
Quick Look at KDE 4.2-SVN
As the work on KDE 4.2 turns out to be on quite an advanced stage, I’ve decided to test the current development version. For the purpose of this test I used the Archlinux distribution, that features the KDE 4.2-SVN packages repository. It is just enough to add appropriate entries into pacman.conf at the top of the default repositories, and there we can go on installing kde-svn.
Mandriva One video tour
We loaded and ran the 2009 (10th Anniversary) edition of Mandriva Linux One, which we reviewed earlier this week. It's pretty, it's smooth, and it had a few problems with the GUI software install/remove utility that would leave a new user scratching his head, but overall, it's a nice update to a distro that started out with the idea that ordinary, non-technical computer users should be able to install and run GNU/Linux without expert help -- and that still adheres to this principle.
FOSSBazaar Tackles Open Source's Legal Obstacles
Who's afraid of open source? "When splashy headlines come up about Verizon, the uninformed can think very negative things about open source and have this fear," Philip Robb, general manager of FOSSBazaar.org said. "But you just have to recognize how it's different. Avoiding open source is probably going to be a competitive detriment to your organization so you should just try and stay informed."
Likely Cause of Intel e1000e Bug Discovered
This week, the Linux kernel and Intel developer teams announced they had discovered the probable cause of the e1000e driver bug. This bug was particularly destructive, as it would corrupt the EEPROM/NVM of certain Intel ethernet adapter chipsets, completely disabling them.
Linux Foundation End User Summit: New BtrFS Filesystem and Knowledge Center
The Linux Foundation got positive results from its first ever End User Summit in New York October 14 and 15. Its concept of "end user" ended up including not only private users but many enterprises and organizations.
Krusader: one file manager to rule them all
I don’t like KDE4. I don’t like the Dolphin file manager either. There, I said it. I’m not trying to start a flame war. Really. But those dislikes are proportional to my concern about the future of Konqueror. For my money, it is just about one of the best things before and since sliced bread. I loved it enough to write about here at length and in depth. As a file manager it is packed to the gunnels with power features and as a browser it’s not half bad either. The integration of both in this universal document viewer is the killer feature but it is getting rather left behind behind in the Web 2.0 goldrush. I worry that it might wither on the vine. Then, I discovered Krusader. It’s a massively powerful and feature-packed twin panel file manager and if Dolphin isn’t cutting the mustard Krusader might just be what you’ve been looking for. Gary Richmond tours the killer features of Krusasder and you can read the full article at Freesoftware Magazine.
Adding new functions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A process primer
People often wonder how to get new capabilities—new packages, new features in existing packages, or even bug fixes—included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The process for doing so is straightforward, but may be foreign to those with a background in traditional software products.
Tutorial: Advanced Tips For The ps Command
The ps command has a large number of options that many Linux admins have not explored. Juliet Kemp shows how to use ps to show the command environment, who is doing what on a remote machine, and more.
KDE Relaunches Community Forums
KDE users have a new online spot to get together and talk about their favorite desktop environment. The KDE Forum re-launched this week and is already over 17,000 members strong.
Economic Gloom, Presidential Politics Collide With Tech
eBay came through with a profitable third quarter, but don't expect such good news in the coming months. Its earnings were almost 1 and a half billion dollars better than Q3 of last year, but the total sum of all transactions on the auction site actually went down one percent. That's a first.
Setting mouse gestures with EasyStroke and Gestikk
For some reason, mouse gestures have never fully caught on with desktop users. Movements of the mouse that launch a command or simulate a combination of keys are ideal for those who prefer not to move their hands constantly between the mouse and the keyboard, or who have trouble typing because of some physical challenge. Yet many users have never heard of mouse gestures, and they are apparently so little in demand that, nine months after the KDE 4 releases began, KDE has yet to implement any of the software or settings that enabled mouse gestures in earlier versions of the desktop.
Automatically process new files with fsniper
fsniper lets you monitor specified directories and execute scripts on any new files that are created in them. Because fsniper uses inotify to monitor its directories, the actions you define are executed as soon as filesystem changes happen. This makes fsniper both more immediate than an hourly cron job and more efficient. One possibility that suggests itself when you think about automatically processing files as they are placed in a directory is to have some sort of classification of files that you download from the Web. In fact, this is the first example that the fsniper Web site gives.
Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Beta Screenshots Tour
Below are screenshots I took after I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Beta on a separate partition of 10 GB, on an my Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz PC with 1 GB DDRAM2. I took all the screenshots leaving default appearance and settings in applications, including the wallpaper, after I installed the nVIDIA restricted drivers and enabled Normal effects in System -> Preferences -> Appearance. Resolution is 1280x1024. I also performed a full apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and restarted the computer before taking the screenshots, so the installation is more recent than the actual beta release.
How to Find duplicate copies of files Using fdupes in Ubuntu
FDupes uses md5sums and then a byte by byte comparison to find duplicate files within a set of directories. It has several useful options including recursion.
Write a Firefox extension to rotate images in mapping apps
Learn how to use JavaScript and the Imager Perl module to interface with a Firefox extension for rotating image tiles in Google Maps. Most online mapping applications assume that the desired view is always north at the top of the image. This article presents tools and code that show how to replace the map image with an inverted copy, where south is at the top. Using a Firefox extension and the Imager Perl module, each tile that comprises the full image is extracted, rotated, and placed back in the image at the appropriate spot.
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