‘Getting the right cropping values using GIMP In 5 steps: Where to find the cropping values 1. Open up GIMP. 2. Open one of the images in GIMP. 3. Using the Rectangle Select Tool (hotkey “R”), select the area you … Continue reading →

‘Let’s have a look at a rather simple mencoder command that should create a WMP-compatible MPEG file: [rechosen@localhost ~]$ mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=1:vbitrate=1800 -of mpeg -o Replace “ ” with the video source (for example a file … Continue reading →

‘If you use bash for scripting you will undoubtedly have to use conditions a lot, for example for an if … then construct or a while loop. The syntax of these conditions can seem a bit daunting to learn and … Continue reading →

No matter how stable the Linux kernel is, things like hardware failures can still lock up your system quite effectively. If you ever encounter a case like that, rebooting is pretty much the only option. However, there is rebooting and … Continue reading →

If you use bash for scripting you will undoubtedly have to use conditions a lot, for example for an if … then construct or a while loop. The syntax of these conditions can seem a bit daunting to learn and … Continue reading →

Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input, writ- ing to standard output. -c, -C, –complement first complement SET1 -d, –delete delete characters in SET1, do not translate -s, –squeeze-repeats replace each input sequence of a repeated character that is … Continue reading →

The mysql program provides a curses-based interface to the SQL-based database server daemon, mysqld(1). Full fuller documentation, refer to the HTML documents installed with the package. OPTIONS -B|–batch Print results with a tab as separator, each row on a new … Continue reading →

The mzip command is used to issue ZIP disk specific commands on Linux, Solaris or HPUX. Its syntax is: mzip [-epqrwx] Mzip allows the following command line options: e Ejects the disk. f Force eject even if the disk is … Continue reading →

anemone [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-delay number] [-arms number] [-finpoints number] [-width number] DESCRIPTION Wiggling tentacles. OPTIONS -visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal … Continue reading →

alsactl is used to control advanced settings for the ALSA soundcard drivers. It supports multiple soundcards. If your card has features that you can’t seem to control from a mixer application, you have come to the right place. INVOKING alsactl … Continue reading →