I have a collection of photos, which is stored under various sub-directories. How do I start a slideshow of the photos, without moving or copying the photos into one directory.
I have a few hundred pictures of various sizes, which I want to convert into a slideshow movie. What is a fast, no frills way to do this?
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In a BASH script, I launched an application and use “$!” variable to grab it’s process ID. I would like to perform some action on the application’s main window (e.g. move or resize it). However, this requires knowing the application’s window ID. How do I find the application’s window ID, using only [...]
Prior to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10), setting up internet connection sharing (ICS) is relatively tedious and not so straightforward. There were a few methods available, some which were described here.
Intrepid shipped with Network Manager 0.7, which made it considerably easier to configure for ICS. The instructions in this post explained setting up ICS [...]
In the previous post here, I tried to solve running EvilApps in VirtualBox in my eeePC with Intrepid Ibex. I was initially hopeful because the installation of a WinXP guest machine was successful. Furthermore, the freshly booted WinXP virtual machine was surprisingly spiffy. I thought I have conceived a foolproof way to [...]
I have an interesting experience recently. I attended a two-hour training on how to use EvilApps. It’s pretty silly, but I have two hours to kill and I was too lazy to explore the software myself. I have also been cooped up in my apartment for too long and need to get [...]
Last week, an unfortunate turn of event forced me to flirt with an old flame. It goes without saying, an old flame is and old flame for conceivably good reasons. Flirting with an old flame is a good way to invite grief and disaster. However, in this instance, the unfortunate turn of [...]
A month ago, I got into a dispute with my Internet Service Provider (ISP). I would not go into the boring details of what transpired; suffice to say It ended with my ISP telling me to shove off. As a result of that, I found the need to monitor my internet bandwidth usage [...]
For reasons which I am not going to explain here, the root partition of my eeePC (running Ubuntu Intrepid) has gone dangerously low on disk space. Usually, I have about 250MB to 300MB remaining in the partition. But twice now, the free disk space went below 50MB, and once almost at zero.
When the [...]
Pdftk is a command line tool to manipulate PDF. Some of the features include rearrange, remove, add/merge and rotate pages. Don’t be put off by the lack of GUI. Pdftk is simple to use with easy to understand syntax. It is also one of the few tool where the man page [...]
