I’ve shown previously how to add an item to Ubuntu’s (or any Gnome desktop) menu, but that post only showed how to edit the menu for a single user. In this post I’ll show how to add an item to the menu so it shows up for every user on the system. I’m going to …
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I’ve shown previously how to install a LAMP server in Ubuntu. If the purpose of your LAMP installation was to set up your own web development environment, then you may want to do some further configuration to your system. This Apache howto is not intended to cover Apache configuration in depth. This is just some …
Continue reading How to Configure Apache Web Server on LinuxIn a previous Bash to Basics, I already showed how to print output to the terminal with the echo command. Today I’m going to show how to read input from the user and store it in a variable. We can then use that variable to print the text back to the terminal with the echo …
Continue reading Bash to Basics: Read User InputToday I’ve got another ImageMagick trick for you. It’s a variation on the demo in the documentation for the convert command. With this type of command, you can create your own text images with drop shadows. Let’s give it a try.
Continue reading Create Text Images with ImageMagickImageMagick 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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