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HowTo: Record Desktop Session via Byzanz 2007-11-29 02:12:00 Byzanz is a new born desktop session recorder for linux. Byzanz records current display sessions and saves them as GIF image files. Byzanz desktop recorder offers several new features at its early binary age. Byzanz desktop recorder provides support for screen recording with or without cursor movements. Byzanz can also be customized to record desktop session on specific screen size or screen ...

Linux Scorched 3D Tank Game 2007-11-28 09:42:00 Meet Scorched 3D Classic Tank Game. Scorched 3D is another classic 3D linux tank game that is based on a DOS game polished with more features such as OpenGL supported, multiple player and weapon options, more landscape island war environment spots, LAN-enabled enemies, save and retrieve game levels and more. Scorched 3D tank game can be played by stand-alone or online. Man Scorched 3D: ...

Linux Atomic Battle Tank Game 2007-11-28 03:22:00 Here's another linux blog entry covering another nice classic game running on Fedora 8. Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. The last tank standing is the winner. More info from here. Game Play and ...

HowTo: Display a Tree of Linux Processes 2007-11-27 01:19:00 Everybody knows the benefit of having an overall idea and infrastructure connectivity of your own local network by looking at our own network diagram. In linux world, being aware and knowing what... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Howto: 3 Easy Install Steps of Microsoft Fonts in Fedora 8 2007-11-26 10:09:00 There are nice fonts included with the default Fedora 8 X installation. Some people love it, others want more. If you are fond of using Microsoft fonts, here's a quick entry on how to have microsoft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Microsoft

Howto: Convert PDF to HTML/XML/PNG in Linux 2007-11-26 05:37:00 Here's a quick howto on converting PDF files into HTML file. PDFtoHTML linux tool converts PDF files into multiple file formats like HTML, XML, and PNG images. By default usage, the output is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Livna Repository on Fedora 8 2007-11-26 05:17:00 Livna repo contains thousand of ready made rpm package and installers for linux. If you find it hard to find extra rpm package for Fedora 8, try to install Livna repo and do the search again. Here's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Linux Action Flight Simulator Game 2007-11-25 13:28:00 Wiki defines Flight Simulator: "A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible. The different types... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Splitting and Merging Multiple Linux Files 2007-11-22 07:32:00 Considering that you have 50MB of single file. Your friend needs it urgently. The situation shows that the ONLY means of transferring this large file between you and your friend is thru email... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Sort Nth Position of Nth Column of a File in Linux 2007-11-22 07:17:00 How to sort file basically? How to sort a file from the Nth column? How to sort a file from Nth position of the Nth column? A quick draw of achieving the above using the sort linux... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Stop, Pause, and Continue A Linux Process 2007-11-22 04:44:00 On most medium to large scale companies, most demanding production servers I know undergo a few minutes of executing batches of scheduled shell scripts or linux commands. These shell scripts and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

File Creation without File Opening in Linux 2007-11-22 00:46:00 How to create new file without opening an editor or executing a copy / move command? How to create new multiple files simultaneously? How to create multiple files with the same timestamps? How to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Concatenate Multiple Files in Linux 2007-11-21 10:29:00 File concatenation involves merging of one or multiple file contents into one single file. We all know that 'cat' linux command displays the contents of a file. Cat linux command can also be used to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Renaming Files in Linux 2007-11-21 08:46:00 I guess you want to learn how to rename a file? Renaming a file is as easy as copying files. Renaming file takes the mv ( short for move ) linux command. The move command can also be used to move... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Linux Power Consumption Analysis Tool 2007-11-21 08:31:00 Here's a powerful power monitoring tool available from linux world. PowerTop is a terminal-based linux program that shows power consumption and power analysis on Intel-based laptops and makes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...