There are those who use Dropbox / Mega / Google Drive, who the classic e-mails, who encrypted emails, chi SSH / SCP and who still USB sticks. Exchanging files today requires a good dose of imagination and a more than careful sifting of alternatives, or we take the risk of Read more…
SoX is a tool for editing audio files via the command line in Linux. Some past projects will allow the use through GUI, but they were in time abandoned all and there remained only the command line (not that I mind). Often the audio file is set to a silent Read more…
You not often have to start an application on a remote machine that requires the use of GUI, more widely in applications to launch and “turn” in background, but it can always happen. I am thinking for example of those who use a computer as a multimedia station (with XBMC the configuration is Read more…
With today's article we complete the article in the 31 May on client-to-server printing, no drivers whatsoever. Perhaps not everyone knows that LibreOffice and OpenOffice integrate between their packages to launch some commands through the terminal. These commands are identical for all operating systems (you, Read more…
Today, let's talk about another piece of command line software for Linux: Transcode. This little tool allows you to stabilize a video where the cameraman (the alleged tale) does not have the hand too firm. It can happen on many occasions: over-excitement, crowd, cold, little space, fever, riot, guerriglia urbana, Read more…
Maybe someone will remember Tilda, the handy application that, at the push of a button, showed the terminal in a configurable part of the screen. From what I see on the official site hosted on sourceforge it seems that the project has been stopped since 2008. I wrote a short guide on this application because the Read more…
This mini-howto is taken from Kayowas' blog. Imagemagik is an exceptional tool, I would say essential, it allows an almost endless array of processing on the images. In Debian-derived systems, the installation is quite a: [user@localhost ~]$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick To vary the size of all images in Read more…
Today we are insert current date and time into an image using the terminal. By itself, the procedure is not complicated, let's see how. In the meantime, let's see how to get the date and time from the pc: [user@localhost ~]$ echo $(date -R) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:45:04 +0200 And now let's see Read more…