The Linux tee command is a way to write the standard output to a file. Or, to quote from the man page documentation, tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files This is a little different from redirecting output to a file.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Create Text Files With teeI’ve shown previously how to fade a single edge of an image with GIMP. That’s a cool effect, but sometimes you want to fade all of the edges of an image. So today I’m going to show you how to fade all of the edges of an image.
Continue reading How To Fade The Edges Of Images With GIMPI spent a few hours this past weekend working on some performance optimization for the site. This site is run on the WordPress blogging software which has tons of great plugins available to add functionality. The downside to this is that most plugins tend to slow the website performance slightly. The exceptions to this are …
Continue reading Tux Tweaks Performance Enhancementsavast! 5.0 is a free antivirus program available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. It is a fairly full featured virus scanner similar to AVG free. Some of its key features are: Silent/Gaming Mode Anti-rootkit protection Automatic updates Boot time scanning (32 bit only) Scheduled scanning Wake up for scan (wakes up Windows …
Continue reading avast! 5.0 Free Antivirus for WindowsIf you’re using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu Linux, your system has the ability to rotate the video display. Why would you want to do this? Well, I have an HP w2207 wide screen monitor that can rotate into portrait mode. This can be handy for editing long documents or working with portrait …
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