Category Archives: utilities

Making screencasts with Linux

By | Published: July 26, 2006
After my post about capturing full page screenshots with firefox I started wondering if there was a way to do screencasts using Linux. It just so happens that you can. There are a couple different options if you want a pure movie of your desktop but I was more interested in a flash version. I [...]
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How to set up different window managers with VNC

By | Published: July 24, 2006
I recently needed to replace twm as the window manager I used under VNC. I wanted something light so I looked at: blackbox, fluxbox, and flwm. These window managers have been around for some time and are probably available as binary packages for most distributions.
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5 ImageMagick command line examples part 2

By | Published: July 22, 2006
I've put together another 5 ImageMagick command line examples as a followup to part 1. These examples are a little more advanced and include some extra information on techniques.
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5 ImageMagick command line examples – part 1

By | Published: July 14, 2006
If you have ever wanted to manipulate images under linux you probably have used Gimp. This isn't your only option and if you want to do things from the command line a better option is to use ImageMagick's convert utility. I've put together 5 simple command line examples that I have found useful. This is [...]
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Tape drives are obsolete

By | Published: July 12, 2006
I was reading an article today that asks the question Are Tape Backup systems obsolete? I would say the answer is yes and that it has been that way for some time now. Take google who build thier own commodity hardware. How would they ever back up so much data? Why would they even try? [...]
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Capture full page screenshots with firefox

By | Published: July 9, 2006
Ever wanted to capture the entire page you are viewing in firefox instead of just what is shown on your screen? Ever need to do that from a command line? Here are two extensions that let you do just that. Page Saver The first extension is called Page Saver and comes in two versions. The [...]
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