Linux Journal/2007.07
Linux Journal Contents #159, July 2007
Features
- DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre by Robin Rowe
- What can you do with Linux and 20 million CPU render hours?
- Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine by Anthony Kay
- If you really need OCR.
- Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape by Marco Fioretti
- Want scalable beauty?
- Interview with Pavel Kanzelsberger, Creator of Pixel by James Gray
- Photoshop comes to Linux, sort of.
Startup Service Links
Don't delete that service link. Instead rename.
For example: Rename /etc/rc2.d/S10acpid to /etc/rc2.d/s10acpid. The lowercase will prevent the service from starting.
Install and Boot Many Distributions
Page 16.
Playing with grub configuration to support multiple distribution.
Screen Recording
Page 22.
Istanbul. Record your screen and movements to create tutorials or how tos. http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
Another option: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net
To convert an OGG video to AVI:
ffmpeg -i recording.ogg newrecording.avi
Resources:
gtk-recordMyDesktop: recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net
Istanbul: live.gnome.org/Istanbul
reKordmydesktop: www.kde-apps.org/content/download.php?content=55760&id=1
Marcel's Web Site: www.marcelgagne.com
The WFTL-LUG, Marcel's Online Linux User Group: www.marcelgagne.com/wftllugform.html
Image Directory in Apache
Page 27
The full script is pretty cool. If you'd like to get a copy of it, please pop over to my site: www.intuitive.com/wicked/imagedir.txt. Save it as index.cgi in an image directory on your Web server.