Some time ago I’ve wrote a tutorial on how to do a DVD slideshow on Linux, and recently I’ve received a comment about using DeVeDe as DVD Authoring software.
In my article I used dvd-menu and mkisofs and this can be an alternative for people who prefer graphical tools.
Let’s see what it can do fo you.
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Exactly 1 year ago this website was born, it started as project to share my Linux knowledge and publish useful articles for Linux users, and over time it has evolved in a full Linux and Open source information site.
I’ve received many articles by contributors and a lot of help in the corrections of the articles, I’ve published some of the things I’ve learned in my years as system administrator and explored new software.
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This article is wrote by Rob Connolly, first published on Blogging to Nowhere
If you read my previous post regarding the site overhaul that I’m currently doing you will have seen me mention that I’m now using the Piwik Open Source Analytics Package in place of Google Analytics. Well I’ve had it running for a few days and have played around with it a bit, so I thought I’d review it. I’m going to start with my reasons for moving from GA and then move along and score it on several different criteria:
Minitube it’s an application to watch youtube movie without using Flash or your browser, i’ve talked about it in a former article.
But from some time there were problems and the app was not able anymore to load properly the youtube video (this was with version 1.4.3 from around 1 month ago).
Flavio released on 5 of august a new release, the 1.5 that fixed this problem
Here I am with a new release that fixes the problem and adds a few features. Thanks to Mike Holenderski for emailing me details about the YouTube changes that broke Minitube. Besides watching videos again, you can now drag’n’drop YouTube links from your browser to the Minitube window. Also, Minitube is now more tolerant about which URLs are actually YouTube URLs.
A topic that is not much know by many people that use bash on Linux it’s the use of the special parameters available in bash.
These parameters may only be referenced; assignment to them is not allowed, i’m talking about the parameters like $$ or $?.
Let’s see some example with them.
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