ImageMagick is a free utility that is installed by default in many Linux distributions. It provides a command line interface to perform a multitude of image manipulation operations. In this post I’ll show how to resize an image.
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One of the great new features of Firefox 3.5 is the native support of the Ogg video format. If you don’t know, Ogg is a Free and Open Source video format from Xiph.org.
Continue reading View Ogg Videos in Firefox 3.5Last time in Bash to Basics I showed how to print text to the terminal with the echo command. This got me thinking about the first program I wrote when I was in fourth grade. I was fortunate enough to be in a school district that had computers in the early ’80s. If you’re around …
Continue reading Bash to Basics: Bash Rocket ScienceFor the latest version, check out Install LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Why Install LAMP? Today I’m going to show how to install and set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on Ubuntu. Why do this? It’s useful if you want to set up an off-line web development environment. If you are …
Continue reading Installing LAMP on Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)VirtualBox is a great application for trying out different Linux distros without messing with your current build. In this post I’ll show you how to share a folder between your Linux host and the guest virtual machine. This assumes you have already installed VirtualBox, created and installed your guest OS, and installed VirtualBox Guest Additions.
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