I’ve been using ndiswrapper and the Windows drivers for the Ralink RT2700E wireless card in my MSI Wind U100 432US. It turns our that the kernel included with Ubuntu Jaunty now includes the native Linux driver for this card. I’m not sure when this was added to the kernel, but I’m using version 2.6.28-15.
Continue reading Enable The RT2860STA Linux Wireless DriverThere’s no need to go out and buy Adobe Photoshop and take Photoshop classes. Just follow this simple GIMP tutorial to learn how to fade out the edge of an image. One of the features that gives images a web 2.0 kind of look is fading out the edges. This is most commonly seen in …
Continue reading Fade Out Images with GIMPIn today’s command line basics, I’m going to show you how to redirect output from the bash cli (command line interface). The output of most GNU command line tools is normally sent to the terminal (ie – standard output). There are times when you would like to have the output saved as a file. Now, …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Redirecting OutputThere are many ways to view files in GNU/Linux. One of the simplest command line tools for viewing files is cat. The cat command, short for concatenate, is actually intended for joining multiple files into one, but it works equally well for viewing text files.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: View Files With catI recently wrote a script to watermark all of the image files in a directory. Most of the images I use on this website are PNG files, but I occasionally use JPGs. The challenge in my script was to find all of the image files in the directory regardless of image type. After a bit …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Determine File MIME Types