Apr 022011
 

tux-terminal A new month is come and now is the time to see what were the most read articles of the month of February.

7) Using cut on linux terminal

Among the commands available from the linux terminal there’s also cut, very useful for processing strings and characters in general.

The cut command is one of the oldest Unix command. That means that it is more then 40 years old. And it shows. It is important to understand that this is a Unix command and behaves in “Unix way”.
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Apr 012011
 

rosenI came across by chance in what I consider one of the more comprehensive guide to creating audio in Linux, and Stefano gave me the permission to republish his material that I consider really good and that he uses as musician.

Stefano it’s an Ubuntu user and his guide it’s based on this distribution, he’s really active in the Ubuntu italian community, if you want to make him a question regarding his guide, you can post in this thread http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php/topic,278719.0.html, the language of the forum is Italian, but i’m sure that you’ll get some answers also if you ask kindly in English.

You can find part 1 of this tutorial here and part 2 here

This is part 3, i plan to republish the last part in a few days.
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Mar 312011
 

flux.imageWell, to be honest, the motto of f.lux is “better lighting for your computer”. That is, this software is based on studies that say that during the day is beneficial to have a blue based light, while it’s bad at night for your sleep pattern; at night it is better to have a more “hot” light, so a reddish-orange based brightness should be better, this is the work of f.lux, this program do a transition of the brightness of your screen depending on time of the day and your latitude.
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Mar 302011
 

Schermata-1I came across by chance in what I consider one of the more comprehensive guide to creating audio in Linux, and Stefano gave me the permission to republish his material that I consider really good and that he uses as musician.

Stefano it’s an Ubuntu user and his guide it’s based on this distribution, he’s really active in the Ubuntu italian community, if you want to make him a question regarding his guide, you can post in this thread http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php/topic,278719.0.html, the language of the forum is Italian, but i’m sure that you’ll get some answers also if you ask kindly in English.

You can find part 1 of this tutorial here

This is part 2, i plan to republish the whole guide in 4 parts in the next days.
The original article is in italian, if you have any comment about the translation, contactme. Continue reading »

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Mar 292011
 

ensemble_1I came across by chance in what I consider one of the more comprehensive guide to creating audio in Linux, and Stefano gave me the permission to republish his material that I consider really good and that he uses as musician.

Stefano it’s an Ubuntu user and his guide it’s based on this distribution, he’s really active in the Ubuntu italian community, if you want to make him a question regarding his guide, you can post in this thread http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php/topic,278719.0.html, the language of the forum is Italian, but i’m sure that you’ll get some answers also if you ask kindly in English.

This is part 1, i plan to republish the whole guide in 4 parts in the next days.
The original article is in italian, if you have any comment about the translation, contact me.
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