Now that summer is over and your digital camera is full of pictures,
how do you get them organized?
At the command line of course!
The script provided here automatically organizes them into
sub-directories by date.
Tech Tip: Automaticaly Organize Your Photos by Date
October 8th, 2009Making a Crossover Cable from Scratch
October 6th, 2009More Bash Redirections
October 6th, 2009Everybody’s seen redirection in bash commands, that’s pretty common,
but bash also allows you to define redirections when you define functions.
This causes the redirections to be evaluated/executed whenever the function is called.
This feature doesn’t really give you any new features, just another
way to express existing features.
Copyright Control
October 6th, 2009Copyright law is “interesting” to say the least — and incredibly contentious. For some, it is an evil that stifles progress. For others, it is all that stands between them and bankruptcy. As with anything, the nature of copyright is not black and white — there are not just shades of gray, but a whole rainbow of copyright colors.
Tech Tip: Meld for Visual Diffs
October 5th, 2009Add Bookmarks for Changing Directories in Konsole
October 3rd, 20097 Steps to Better Tables of Contents in OpenOffice.org Writer
October 1st, 2009Like other word processes, OpenOffice.org Writer makes creating tables of contents (ToCs) quick and easy. Unfortunately, it also works with unaesthetic defaults and allows you to make choices that complicate your work flow rather than improving it.
Fortunately, Writer is also flexible enough to allow you to produce useful, aesthetic ToCs if you follow a few basic steps.
Economics and virtualization stunt Linux server growth
September 30th, 2009Linux server adoption has decreased somewhat in 2009, according to a recent SearchDataCenter.com survey. Virtualization and the economy are the chief reasons.
End Users Meet Year End
September 30th, 2009There are a plethora of opportunities for geeks to meet and greet one another throughout the year: linux.conf.au, Linux Congress, OSCON, Linux Plumber’s Conference, LinuxCon, the list goes on. There is one, however, where the focus is purely on the customer, so-to-speak — the end user. The conference in question, aptly named the End User Summit, is quickly drawing near, and the Linux Foundation is wondering who wants to be there.