Lately, I have been revising a script I use for video grabbing from a bt878-based TV tuner card. What such a task requires is real CPU horsepower, but my desktop PC can only offer an old Pentium III 700MHz running at 933MHz. I decided to squeeze all the performance out of this overclocked processor in…
Actually, this title is not very descriptive, as sharing music across the LAN with Rhythmbox takes only one click of the mouse. However, this article intends to provide an overview of what happens behind the scenes after this mouse button has been pressed and how Rhythmbox and Avahi work together in order to make the…
This is the introductory post of a series of postings, which will contain various tips about Linux. All these tips have been collected through the years from various sources on the internet and were kept in numerous text files in my home directory. Others are my own “discoveries”. Recently, I moved them to Tomboy, but…
Some months ago, I had written a guide about using PartImage to take snapshots of linux partitions either locally or remotely. Some readers had recommended some other tools, as you can see in the comments on that page, since the development of PartImage seems to have stopped (it still works ok for me though). Anyway,…
When this Slashdot headline appeared in my feed reader, I smiled. When I visited Port 25, Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab official page, I could hardly believe my eyes…
If you intend to extend your programming skills by learning the Python programming language, apart from the absolutely perfect official tutorial by Guido van Rossum, consider reading Magnus Lie Hetland’s Instant Python crash course. It’ll help you get started in no time!
My quest for the best AWK tutorial has reached an end. The Texas A&M University has set up a guide, small in size, but with content of high quality, which can help someone that knows the basics of programming to get started quickly. Of course, there are many other free online high quality guides, but…
I’ve been checking the web server logs lately seeking for a way to track down the remote hosts that regularly submit, or try to submit, spam comments massively. Grep-ing the logs is no fun at all, so I wrote a small BASH script to do the dirty work for me. Well, this one was written…
Today, while searching the web for any potential extra Epiphany plugins, I came accross a couple of blog posts, which, when combined together, they make a great review of my beloved web browser. Until today, I thought that falling upon Epiphany reviews was one of the rarest things to happen to me, so I decided…
These are some general guidelines and notes in order to assist the adventurous first-time Fedora user to get started with RPM package building.