Linux Journal/2007.07

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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

Tech Tips

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

Tech Tips

Page 16.

Playing with grub configuration to support multiple distribution.

Screen Recording

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

Image Directory in Apache

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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.