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1. Name clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 amd6 4M3 Save in folder amp CloneZilla org V Browse for other folders lt B horus ISO Images CloneZilla org Places Name amp Search gt donezilla live 1 2 6 40 1686 is0 XOS UX Simple Those of you astute enough to notice will see that have a previous version of Clonezilla Live already in this folder Instead of taking the shortcut of using this older version which still works just fine thought I d take the time to go get the latest version so you could see how that s done did skip all the file system browsing to get to this point though It s very likely that you are going to choose a different place to store your copy anyway Once the Save button is clicked the Save File window closes itself and a download window opens in Firefox or whatever browser you might choose instead You may safely browse elsewhere while your download is going on but you should wait until the download completes to continue to the next step Those of you who are proficient in burning ISO images may wish to skip ahead to the next topic Starting Clonezilla On The Target System Burning the ISO to a CD Use your favorite CD burning software to burn the ISO file to a blank CD Many choices exist Brasero and GnomeBaker for Gnome users Xfburn for Xfce users K3b for KDE users grafburn bashburn and many others It is presumed that you should already possess the skills to burn an ISO
2. clonezilla live 2011 03 28 140 0 MB G vr clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 1686 iso 2011 03 28 134 2 MB clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 amd64 zip clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 amd64 iso 2011 03 28 140 5 MB O am Take note that a zip version of each release is also available but that we will use the ISO image when making a Live CD will be using the amd64 variant since the system will be using for this demonstration is an old Compag V500 laptop it has an AMD64x2 CPU with PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE installed on it Backup Basics Part 2 Using Clonezilla Live Download the ISO to a location somewhere on your system where you can find it I ve downloaded mine to home horus ISO Images Clonezilla org but any convenient folder will do just fine The download process should look familiar after you have clicked on the variant you want to use Here s what mine looks like in Firefox Qpening clonezilla live dI aS 2s amda A You have chosen to open _ clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 amd64 iso which is a raw CD image from http iweb dl sourceforge net What should Firefox do with this file Open with Archive Mounter default _Do this automatically for files like this from now on Note that the Save File option is selected If that is not the case when your download dialog opens go ahead and click that radio button to select it then click the OK button Here s a picture of what you should see next at least on a KDE system
3. if all else fails choice If you have ever programmed in a functional language such as LISP or SCHEME you will notice that the parameters in a Property List are either constant quoted values or a list of parameters enclosed within parentheses This is because some of the display attributes in the generated text file require multiple parameters to be set at once Fortunately these parameters are also set when you use either the WindowMaker Configuration Manager wmakerconf or the WindowMaker Preferences utility Prefs app Does your computer run slow Are you tired of all the Blue Screens of Death computer crashes Are viruses adware malware amp spyware slowing you down Get your PC back to good health TODAY FODICO May ZOTT areas of FOSS FOSSCOMM is an opportunity for everyone to present their work by Efstathios losifidis diamond gr Last month on May 7th and 8th the annual conference of FOSS communities and projects called FOSSCOMM was held in Patras Greece FOSSCOMM 2011 was organized by the Patras Linux User Group PLUG and the Computer Engineering amp Informatics Department Laboratory of Computing Computer Center University of Patras Most of the visitors were satisfied with the whole organization although there were some technical issues due to the electricity blackout on the morning of the second day eNS SOME mr Erste Ei There were 74 presentations
4. stable release images There are three basic variants of Clonezilla Live 1486 1686 and amd64 i486 is the most generic variant and works with systems back as far as the Intel and AMD 80486 CPU It should work in most every case except really old hardware If you own more recent hardware Pentium class and up the optimizations in the other two will prove to be better in terms of speed and efficiency The 1686 variant is for P6 microarchitecture Pentium processors The amd64 variant confusingly enough is for both Intel and AMD 64 bit CPUs typically use the i686 for everything except the really old stuff but find that there is a small difference in speed on 64 bit hardware with the amd64 variant I keep them all in my toolkit As of this writing the most recent stable version of these variants is 1 28 23 Go to the downloads site given above for the stable releases and download the ISO image needed to support your hardware Sourceforge Fna open source Sofware 4 Clonezilla by steven shiau Summary Files Reviews Support Develop Tracker Mailing Lists Forums Code Looking for the latest version Download clonezilla live 20110504 natty iso 153 1 MB Home clonezilla_live_stable 1 2 8 23 I Name Modified Size Parent folder clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 1486 2ip 2011 03 28 132 8 MB O clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 1486 iso 2011 03 28 134 2 MB E EB clonezilla live 1 2 8 23 i686 zip 2011 03 28 132 9MB O a
5. to insure articles are correct create artwork or help with the magazine s layout Join us on our Google Group mailing list EN primacloud LolIndysi SrJoguving dicine nrasturcinsg Wien VO by Daniel Meif amp Wilhelm Leiche When you read the articles Get Slick With xbindkeys and Whar A Mac OS X Like Quick Launch Bar you can get some tips about how you can use these two excellent programs in harmony use xbindkeys now for all my shortcuts keys like to click only two keys to open Clementine set my sleep timer to shutdown my notebook or start Screenie to take a screen shot of my desktop One thing is if you add a new shortcut you must kill xbindkeys and after you add your shortcut restart xbindkeys in order to use the new shortcut Here comes wbar which will help us to do this The new whar version 2 1 1 comes included with the wbar config and the icon looks like this Clicking on it you get a new window top image next column To add a new icon starter click on a A new window like that below Second image next colum appears wbar config ES PCLOS Magazin pcmanfm Dropbox kellerleiche_homepage P Firefox firefox Sylpheed sylpheed 3 gFTP gftp Cr The Gimp gimp DeadBeeF deadbeef Title Command Type in the Title field the name of your new icon Starter such as the sample Tastenkurzel The command could be something like this killall x
6. Japanese AE Start Clonezilla Start Clonezilla or enter login shell command line Select mode RA po zh_CN UTF 8 Chinese Simplified h zh TH UTF 8 Chinese Traditional JE F lt Cancel gt lt Ok gt lt Ok gt Start Clonezilla Start Clonez1ll1a Enter shell Enter command line prompt lt Ok gt lt Cancel gt The first option ocal_dev is the one to use for sending an image to a USB device or to another drive on the same system Note that other options make it possible to use Clonezilla Live to send the image over a network e g to a file server or other system but that we will be doing a local backup to a USB device Once you press ENTER to choose this option a message displays at the bottom of the screen prompting you Notice that you can get to a command prompt from here I ve never actually done this as the Clonezilla mode does everything I ve ever needed suspect this option is there mainly for developers and more advanced users See what mean No fancy pictures nor any graphics save for ASCII Art to speak of but be advised that Clonezilla supports a fair number of languages aside from English Make sure you select the right one before proceeding or you will likely be 28 ocsrootdevice is local_dev Preparing the mount point home partimag If you want to use USB device as a Clonezilla image repository please insert USB device into this machine now Wait
7. Linux as compared to running it ona modern computer After all this computer was manufactured in either 1998 or 1999 The machine is over ten years old However would recommend that anyone think twice about discarding a piece of hardware like this It still has its usefulness It can always be re purposed as a print server or router with the addition of an ethernet and a wireless ao Posted by Ramchu May 9 2011 running KDE 4 24 Hiet sasies Part 2 Using Clonezilk Live by horusfalcon In the May issue we covered the basics of how to plan and implement a backup strategy for the typical PCLinuxOS desktop system A part of that strategy was to take an initial backup of the baseline system configuration a task for which Clonezilla Live is admirably suited What follows is a step by step guide to making an image you can use to recover from a crash Clonezilla Live is a Live CD based Linux distribution which has been custom tailored for creating and restoring system images It is worth noting before we get started that Clonezilla Live is never installed it is always run from the Live CD It makes no changes to an existing system when properly used and isa safe fast and effective backup tool What is a disk image In really basic terms a disk image is a set of specially compressed files which Clonezilla uses to take a sort of snapshot of an entire disk or of a disk partition That image may be later us
8. Start button The window displayed on the screen will change to one similar to the one acidrip 2 Cache status Chapter 0 0 0 Size Encoding status Real time left Encoding speed Estimated filesize Time encoded 0 04 00 Average bitrates 563 123 cd Encoding film 1st pass Full view 24min 76 39fps 412mb above This window will keep you updated on the progress and status of your video transcoding The really nice thing about replacing the main window with this window during the video transcoding is that it makes it much harder to accidentally stop the transcoding process To do so you will have to specifically switch back to the main window by pressing the Full view button and then click on the Stop button Summary AcidRip lives up to its billing as being able to transcode DVDs to video files with one click For most people the default values will be more than adequate Of course you can also tweak those values to your heart s content Plus the more you understand about how mencoder works the more you ll be able to milk out of AcidRip Basically if MPlayer can play the DVD then AcidRip can transcode that DVD to a video file Initially tried AcidRip with my DVD copy of the latest Star Trek movie was beginning to think something wasn t working properly with AcidRip until tried playing the DVD In fact Phoenix wouldn t even mount the DVD when placed it in the DVD
9. To Texstar my thanks I bestow Download it now I ll show you how Never again will your puter be slow Oh come on home never again do roam To PCLOS it s the best It s the top of the pack you ll always come back After you ve tried all the rest PCLOS is your home Give thanks to Texstar for the deal Don now your specs write out those checks And see how good you will feel re nen A MP3 OGG 49 rIr2r9 X by Paul Arnote parnote How many times have you been cruising around on web sites and come across an image that is displayed way smaller than it should be displayed So small that you can barely tell what it is Or how many times have you looked at an image in your web browser and wished that you could zoom in on some detail in that image without having to download the image Or how many times have you received an image in your email that was too large to be displayed in the available window space Thanks to Image Zoom by Jason Adams you can enlarge or shrink images right there in your Firefox browser window It also works equally well with Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Released under the GNU GPL v2 0 license Image Zoom has been around since July 2004 with the release of Image Zoom 0 1 2 for Firefox 0 9 Since then there have been 18 subsequent release updates and it is currently at version 0 4 6 updated most recently to work with Firefox 4 x and beyond How it works Image
10. a metaphor to illustrate my point Would you pass on the tail light just because it came from a Buick Skylark and not a Chevy Corsica despite the fact that it s the very same tail light both made by General Motors We all are running Linux and all Linux distros borrow ideas and code from one another So by bashing another Linux distro we are doing nothing more than bashing ourselves Desktop Choices As if it isn t bad enough to wade through 300 Linux distributions now the user will have to choose which desktop environment to use For users coming from an environment where there primarily is one desktop environment available they all of a sudden get hit with probably no fewer then 100 different choices about how to interact with their computer desktop Even with PCLinuxOS users have no fewer than six choices KDE Gnome Xfce LXDE e17 and 3 Openbox with possibly even more choices in the future Add into this the distinction between a desktop environment and a window manager and how those lines sometime become quite blurred it s perfectly understandable that new Linux users will have some confusion about what they should use To be fair many of the desktop environments and window managers are mosily niche players and haven t gained widespread acceptance Nonetheless they still exist It would probably be best to restrict new users to the most popular desktop environments such as Gnome KDE Xfce LXDE and
11. and some of the speakers were from abroad There were 662 electronic registrations but only 453 visitors could make it The Enlightenment Gnome Fedora and OpenSUSE communities were present with booths full of people happy to inform visitors about their projects Also a FOSS blog writer was there witha booth and they distributed PCLinuxOS CDs with KDE Gnome and E17 Since this is a FOSS conference meaning that most of the visitors know their interest technical presentations were the ones most attended There was lots of information about computer systems security and development and there is a lot of serious development going on in Greece in many E SE ea a O ATAF am hn cone PCLinuxOS Live CDs were m de ae to conference attendees A sampling of some of the freebies a k a swag given out by the Firefox folks riffs Graac2 But what is a FOSS conference if the participants and the visitors don t have a great deal of time The openSUSE team decided to throw a small release for the new OpenSUNE 11 4 It is not a typo someone made a mistake on the cake But where is the fun if mistakes like that don t happen Some guys from chania lug and osarena decided to join the party An openSUSE team member with the misspelled cake For more information you can visit Web page http patras fosscomm gr Presentations http patras fosscomm gr presentations Videos of presentations http blip tv foss
12. charge of the computer He would not allow my mother to use it without his supervision but that s another story He signed up with various voice grade Internet providers over the years eventually becoming dissatisfied with each one in turn He mostly used email and only occasionally browsed the world wide web It was when he browsed the web that the complaints about slow access speed came into play The computer came equipped with a factory installed copy of Windows 98 First Edition He was so proud of the fact that Microsoft shipped him a Second Edition upgrade CD in the mail after he requested it They didn t even charge me he would boast Little did he know Three times that I m aware of he contracted Windows viruses that either rendered his computer unbootable or compromised some functionality He would call the Dell help desk to help him diagnose the problem became involved twice in his Windows 98 escapades when he could no longer boot the machine due to another malware infection Why would anyone do such a thing he would ask angrily Don t people have any respect for private property any more It was then that I took the opportunity to explain the benefits of using Linux Can I use the Internet with it I explained that I would have to run tests to see what would work with his modem Will it run Microsoft Works That was where we hit a snag explained that although he could not run Works I could instal
13. e17 Of those five KDE is the desktop openbox RS environment that is most like Windows which may make it one of the easiest ones for Windows refugees to adapt to and adopt Why you may ask Since there are more Linux users using those desktop environments it will be easier for the new user to find help when they get into a bind Also many of those desktop environments operate a lot like the singular desktop environment they arrived from so the new user can concentrate on learning the differences of Linux compared to that other commercially available operating system Given the chance to adapt to the Linux file system and other differences in Linux will help ease the new user into total adoption of Linux as their primary or even sole operating system Attitudes amp Perceptions Once a new user has chosen a distro and desktop environment the next hurdles to jump are the attitudes of some Linux users as well as the perception of Linux Don t underestimate the impact of these two items they can make a formidable barrier for the new Linux user Let s start with perceptions first Linux is seen as being closely related to Unix which has been used in scientific circles for well forever As a result Linux is seen as the playground for geeks Linux also has a common albeit wrong and undeserved perception of being for hackers While it is true that Linux is used in many scientific circles t
14. ey Yo Repository Options Ww Playlists i Music Library 2 Local Repository 4 Music Libr Repository Playlists i A Podcasts Genera x Y o i gp Add new repository iPod Create Repository Repository type iPod A Repository name New Repository iPod mountpoint fimnvipod S E iTunesDB backup Model Select or enter your model v muse ra Path Cancel dp Add rn cance ox Album Art might take a while depending on how many music and picture files you have on your iPhone to hash the contents of your iPhone Once it is done you will have the additional sections on your iPhone and you are in business gtkpod iPod Manager jx we Musi c Edit View Tools Help I 2 3 FP Load iPod s Save Changes Add Files Add Folder Add Playlist New Playlist Title Artist Dani California 7 j Archie Arevalo Hey Music Videos She s Only 18 F Podcasts Warlocks E Animal Bar al Recently Played Desecration Smile a Top 25 Most Played Hard to Concentrate Photos Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Tell Me Baby So Much I Readymade Death Of A Martian Make You F
15. frames resave it with the title of with your stories In your template you your present project My On the other hand maybe you have a specific page will place the text and graphics frames newsletters are design you want to apply to some or all of the pages you plan to use most of the time but generally saved as of your newsletter Maybe you aren t sure how many won t enter any text into the story editor Company_Newsletter_ pages your newsletter will be or what will be on or any images into the image frames June2011 or something each page My newsletter is four pages every time The first page of my newsletter looks similar After you have it and the pages while being the same general very much like the image here gt saved create CPIS PR Radically Simple Using Scribus Part 6 Templates amp Master Pages design are not identical and can be changed any time choose to change them The magazine however has the same design for every page so when several people work on it the finished product has a unified look The magazine uses a Master Page It is a one page design that has the header and footer and the columns already established Looks pretty empty doesn t it To do a Master Page you open a new document format it the way you want it margins orientation amp so on then choose Edit gt Master Page You will get a small window which has several buttons New Copy Import and Delete
16. give me a much higher quality image despite taking twice as long to encode since the movie is scanned twice once to study the video and learn how to optimize the video and a second time to record the video using the optimizations learned on the first pass I ve also selected the Autoaspectoption so that the aspect ratio of my video matches the movie s aspect ratio as it is on the DVD Finally I ve also selected the Cartoonoption since the title am converting is an animated feature C Audio encodingoption 1 Soundtrack E Standard sound 2 Soundtrack without v Encodingoptions copy Bitrate options 384 7 Without subtitel v In the next section Audio encodingoption you can select the options for the audio portion of your transcoded video file You can select two soundtracks for your video file For the first one I simply selected Standard sound I opted to have no second soundtrack hence the without as my selection in the second soundtrack list Select with subtitle encoding For Encodingoptions I ve simply selected to copy the sound from the DVD to my AVI file and it is the default setting in DVD2Xvid You can also choose AC3 or faac as the audio codec If you select one of the alternate audio codecs you can also select the audio bitrate to use to re encode your audio Since have elected to copy the audio cannot change the audio bitrate Finally
17. is CE Yol should set blueMarine to use no more than 768M8 This requisite will be relaxed in today is important to prevent a severe performance degradation ad 2 Allocate memory how much memory you want it to access and 3 Reopen will then close down and restart the program When it restarts you will see a message on the startup screen that this is a beta version You can close that screen using the x at the bottom of the message The you will see the directory tree on the left Navigating to the directory you want and clicking on Tools gt Build Thumbnail will result in the thumbnails being generated next page top left There seem to be several things you can use the toolbar at the top has L to R File Explorer Calendar Explorer Catalog Explorer Gallery Explorer and Trip Explorer The star allows you to give your photos a rating from 1 to 5 the check mark allows you to mark a photo as a favorite and the X deletes it from the workspace computer You can toggle back amp forth between the thumbnail view and single photo view using the icons at the right of the toolbar 45 The filmstrip icon turns the filmstrip at the bottom on picture You simply adjust the numbers or the arrow and off The globe at right is the map explorer which keys to designate the x and y coordinates of the gives you a choice of two NASA programs picture you want The white lines will show you WorldWind and Blue Marble pl
18. it transparent and drop it behind the primary layer Or you can use the brush option Behind especially if it s an edit that s not too involved With the brush pen in draw mode Behind you draw on the transparent area of the layer but the brush stokes fall behind the object on that layer In the example at right I ve isolated the figure that s me I ve simply selected the Spark brush and selected the Behind brush pen mode Wherever draw on that layer it falls behind the figure It all passe happens on as one layer No need to create a new layer and place it behind the primary layer Mark Szorady is a nationally syndicated cartoonist with georgetoon com He blogs at georgetoon com blog Email Mark at georgetoon gmail com 11 Fna LIne Landasan 522 oF Consrsion by Paul Arnote parnote Which Linux distribution The list of 100 top Linux distros is only the tip of the iceberg According to Operating System org there So which Linux distribution should a new user start are 605 different Linux distros Distrowatch as of If you can try to imagine yourself making the switch with Just take a look at the list on the front page of May 1 2011 lists even more 681 and breaks the from Windows to Linux today Is there any Distrowatch com this Is a list of the top 100 Linux list down to active 319 dormant 56 discontinued surprise at the confusion experienced by those distros Can
19. player on two different computers After further investigation discovered that even MPlayer couldn t play the DVD presumably due to the copy protection scheme used on the DVD After choosing a different movie Idiocrocy from Mike Judge everything worked as it should Often overlooked AcidRip deserves a prominent place in your video tool chest Arafna O57 lenros Pure 4s by Darrel Johnston djohnston First things first have some corrections to add to the previous articles In Part 1 said Most who used Amiga computers in the 1970s and 1980s came to love the capabilities of the machines According to the Amiga History site The Commodore Amiga was officially launched in September 1985 for 1 500 Hey was only off by a decade can remember where was when President Kennedy was shot but my memory sometimes fails me spectacularly in other ways Had done basic research would have caught that blatant error Stuff happens My apologies to nimrod7 on the Amigaworld forum and to any others who caught that error So if you were running an Amiga in 1975 you were ten years ahead of your time Next in Part 1 I said binaries already compiled for AmigaOS will not run even if they are compiled for the same family of CPU According to HenryCase also on the Amigaworld forum and the AROS EXEC forum that is incorrect As Henry states This simply isn t true as can be seen with all the 68k Amiga software t
20. plus one entry Normal Since you are creating a new page click on the first button on the left it should say New when you hover your mouse over it Another small window will pop up asking you to name your brand new master page I named mine MeemawsOwn but you should name yours something more appropriate for you Click OK Now you will see the name of your new master page in the list below Insert Page View Extras Script Windows Help 30 150 200 250 300 35 Edit Master Pages olo el el Edit Master Pages 0 X New MasterPage 4 xX Name MeemawsOwn oc em Make sure it s highlighted because that s the one you want to edit Leave this small window open That is how the program knows you are editing that master page Oy Edit Master Pages pole Normal Now put in the header and footer information you want to have on that page If you use 2 columns all the time put frames in for them If the text should flow from left to right through the columns you can put that in as well If you always have a logo in a certain spot put that in and lock it down When you are finished editing your page you can click on the save button in the main toolbar and give your document a name Only when you have saved your page should you close the Edit Master Pages window If in the future you want to alter your page you simply go to Edit gt Master Pages again edit the page the way you want re sav
21. this utility depending upon the type of background you wish to set wmsetbg is typically called with a set of common options a or maxscale scales the specified image preserving its aspect ratio This could result in part of the background color showing where the image does not cover the screen b or back color sets the specified color and if an image or another color is used the color becomes part of a texture implemented with the background e or center centers the image specified in the command line t or tile tiles the image specified in the command line Note e and t should not be combined It really does not make much sense S or scale scales the specified image This can be combined with either e or t d or dither dithers colors At least two colors must be specified with this option w or workspace selects which workspace to change the background The t e s and a options require a filename for the image you want to use as a background The b and d options require that at least one color be specified in either a UNIX recognized color name which is the same as the color names used within HTML tags and on CSS stylesheets the RRGGBB format quotes included here or rgb RR GG BB quotes included here also where RR GG and BB are hexadecimal values WindowMaker on PCLinuxOS WindowMaker Internals Part 1 For example wmsetbg b 7f7f7f or wmsetbg b gr
22. to a CD and it is beyond the scope of this article to walk you step by step through the CD burning process Note that the entire burn process should not take very long at all since the entire data load is about 130 megabytes Now we are ready to start Clonezilla Live Starting Clonezilla Live On The Target System I know everyone is eager to get started but before we jump in there are some things I need to share with you about using any imaging software Space Requirements any image taken with Clonezilla will be compressed but it will still take up space Make certain the storage device being used for the backup has plenty of room not just for the image but also to handle any temporary files Clonezilla will generate during creation of the image Be Sure of Your Targets on a Linux system this means you need familiarity with how your drives are named and with how Clonezilla will use this information Backing up a drive to itself which would destroy its current data set seems to be impossible I tried it for research purposes and yes the system prevented me from doing this but the result would still be a waste of time at best Read Carefully I ll be taking us step by step through the demonstration but your system will likely be different Apply knowledge of your own system to meet your needs and don t just blindly follow along here will do my best to note places where your system s setup needs to be considered
23. to a list of items to transcode The Compact button allows you to switch between the compact view that appears when you start the transcoding and the window presenting the full view The Stop button stops the transcoding and appears as the Start button before you begin to transcode your video Naturally the Quit button exits AcidRip when you are finished transcoding video Similarly the right side of the AcidRip window is Static as well It lists the titles on the DVD in the upper right and lists a Summary and progress bar of the current job in the lower right Mido Passes vcodec mpeg4 vha v4mv vgmil Codec lave te Options Bitrate Lock Bits Px Crop Width Horiz Detect Height Scale Width 480 Lock aspect C Post filters Pre filters Under the Video tab you make the settings for your transcoded video At the top of the tab window you select the video codec you wish to use The default is lavc but you can also select from Xvid x264 vfw and qtvideo as well as a couple of others You can also select how many passes you want to make through the video As we ve mentioned before there is a huge advantage to using two pass encoding and the quality gain far outweighs the disadvantage of taking twice as long to transcode your video In the Options field you can set or select any mencoder command line options that you like Refer to the
24. you can select subtitles to include in your AVI file have chosen to not use subtitles Without subtitle is the default value However should you want to include them you can select the subtitles from the DVD in the drop down listbox C Time settings Modify time line oo Start by oo oo i oo Stop by oo oo z oo Under the Time settings section you can select to advance or delay the audio video sync if you are having problems with the audio syncing properly with your video images Enter either a positive or negative number into the Modify time line box and the audio will be either advanced of delayed by that number of milliseconds You can also record portions of a DVD title Enter the start time where you want to start recording in the Start by fields followed by the end time in the Stop by fields The three entry fields represent hours minutes and seconds GI Start or add to batch processinglist Append Once you have all of your settings as you want them click on one of the buttons at the bottom of the window The buttons at the far left and far right of the screen should be quite obvious Selecting the Append button will add more jobs to the batch processng list 1 P 1 the little toaster avi Nr Outfilename Titel Ca 2P Au 1 the little toaster avi 0 01 09 1 VW F Pass 1 Groesse 1799m Restzeit 72min Encodiert 102 sek 1 Stop I Shut
25. you imagine trying to choose which distros 306 as well as listing 247 as being on the Windows users braving the switch to Linux Let s version of Linux to trial from a list of 100 In the waiting list Granted some of those in the list are no take a look at some of the issues these new Linux Windows World users have only four or five longer around Yet when a new user Is faced with users face versions of Windows to choose from the choice of over one half of that number say 300 different Linux distributions to choose from armed with nothing more than a desire to leave the Microsoft and Apple merry go round it s a miracle that even some of them discover Linux to be a workable alternative Choose wrongly and the new user will get a bad feeling for Linux They will run off into the night like Paul Revere on his midnight ride decreeing that Linux is not yet ready for prime time and that Linux sucks to anyone who will listen Choose correctly and that same new user will wonder why they didn t switch sooner and how they ever survived without Linux That initial experience with Linux will be highly dependent on how well their hardware is detected and the stability of the Linux distro that they chose Choose something like Fedora which is considered to be more cutting edge than most other distros and you may end up with stability issues Choose something like Debian or PCLinuxOS which have reput
26. 0 1pclos20 gtkpod To be inst amarok gtkpod lastfmlib libgpod Dile menm m D C gt Summary Show Details y GTK2 It 69 3 MB of extra space will be used 27 4 MB have to be downloaded D3 tag 18 new packages will be installed __ Download package files only er ws offline 7 v Verify package signatures more Sections St Cancel Apply N Search Custonr noua your CASON Mantes TES per aT CATS Apply all marked changes 2 packages listed 1090 installed 0 broken 18 to install upgrade 0 to remove 69 3 MB will be used Plug in your iPhone and you should get a notification that a USB Imaging Interface has been attached and is ready for some action USB Imaging Interface 3 actions for this device lt y Download Photos with Gwenview Y Download Photos with digikam E Open with File Manager On FOLIE LOS At this point it is only when Amarok is up and running that are we be able to distinguish the iPhone as more than just a digital device and we are able to add or remove music files to and from the iPhone Did I mention I had problems getting the album covers x mw G John Butler Trio One Way Road Amarok e Amarok View Playlist Tools Settings Help QOGGEF vad pu F G KS 3 i Fa gt Local Music ig Q gt John Butl LEI gt gt i amp v y z Re The get re an 1 ge 7 N eclecticle tation neede
27. NCY CONSIDERATIONS i 4 E al a P B29 x 11 694 in Giese The above shows the first part of the table of contents for the user manual At this time should apologize for taking so long to get on with the series However my wife passed away in the early part of 2010 Then my older son Gary Il was shot and disabled at the house leaving me to take care of him for several months got to the point where lacked the time and the desire to continue writing However in February he received a clean bill of health about as clean as can be expected for one who has a metal tube running through his leg Next time we will be covering the XML markup language fik Please i Donate To a PCLinuxOs PCr 2 se e17 kg 2 fe fe SENG Phoen vad hon eg 1 r LI Fo 9 c a a Your Community Projects Forum A magazine just isn t a magazine without articles to fill the pages If you have article ideas or if you would like to contribute articles to the PCLinuxOS Magazine send an email to pclinuxos mag Qgmail com We are interested in general articles about Linux and of course articles specific to PCLinuxOS 1 All the contents of The PCLinuxOS Magazine are only for general information and or use Such contents do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making or refraining from making any decision Any specific advice or replies to queries in any part of the magazine is a
28. Part 8 AcidRip Under the Queue tab you can examine the mencoder command line that is used to transcode the selected title s from the DVD If you want to save these commands or if you just want to take a look at the mencoder command line used Say maybe you want to learn more about the mencoder command line clcking on the Export button will allow you to save the output in the Queue tab to a file Settings MEncoder MPlayer tmp Isdvd Cache Cache DVD Delete cache Autoload media Pre cache video C Overwrite files Shutdown Compact box Enforce size PPC cropping Eject DVD English Save Revert Language on Radically Simple The Settings tab allows you to select the options that dictate how AcidRip runs You can specify the location of the Mencoder MPlayer and Isdvd application files as well as the location to use to store the cached files Of the options presented there are only a few that you are likely to find useful selected the Autoload media option so that the DVD is automatically loaded when it is inserted into the computer s DVD player The default value is unchecked The other three selected options are the default values for AcidRip and have left them unchanged Selecting the Revert button will reset the settings to their default values Once you have everything set up how you like it select the
29. The PL ukos Magazine Mounting the iPhone on PCLinuxOS Photo Viewers Galore Part 2 The Linux Landscape A Sea of Confusion Using Scribus Part 6 Templates amp Master Pages Video Part 7 DVD2Xvid SO A Video Part 8 AcidRip Da ox a Connecting to Using PCLinuxOS on Older Hardware PCLinuxOS Xbindkeys Stopping Editing amp Restarting With wbar WindowMaker On PCLinuxOS WindowMaker Internals Alternate OS Icaros Part 4 Backup Basics Part 2 Using Clonezilla Live FOSSCOMM 2011 Patras Greece Computer Languages A to Z Watfiv Plus more inside oO Oa KR amp 11 12 17 18 19 21 22 24 25 31 32 34 37 41 44 46 49 50 52 53 54 55 56 Fanila Y Welcome From the Chief Editor Screenshot Showcase Mounting the iPhone on PCLinuxOS Using Scribus Part 6 Templates amp Master Pages Double Take amp Mark s Quick Gimp Tip The Linux Landscape A Sea of Confusion Screenshot Showcase Linux Belongs To Everyone Video Part 7 DVD2Xvid Screenshot Showcase PCLinuxOS on Older Hardware Screenshot Showcase Backup Basics Part 2 Using Clonezilla Live Screenshot Showcase Forum Foibles Going Home Video Part 8 AcidRip Alternate OS Icaros Part 4 WindowMaker On PCLinuxOS WindowMaker Internals Part 1 FOSSCOMM 2011 Patras Greece Photo Viewers Galore Part 2 ms meme s Nook Oh Give Me A Home Firefox Add ons Image Zoom Xbindkeys Stopping Editing amp Restarting With wbar S
30. The folder belongs to root and has the right permissions You ll need to change the ownership of the folder to your user So you can have read and write access to it Type chown lt user gt lt user gt mnt iPhone where lt user gt is your user account If the permission is not quite the same with drwxr xr x you can type in the command chmod 755 mnt iPhone Enter Note that the iPhone folder on mnt will be there permanently and will not be removed upon umounting of the device 2 wy O mnt Dolphin File Edit View Go Tools Settings Help Q gt amp raoa ge C Fre Ea WA Preview NewTab 4 Split I GQ gt Folders o x E Root gt mnt gt bin a 2 jo 13 E3 dev gt etc iPhol gt home gt i rchie bash o m gt F lib a oe View Bookmarks Settings Help gt lost found a gt E media ram gt I net gt opt gt E proc gt root gt gt sbi gt sv gt E swap gt sy gt TT tmp gt usr A gt EE p An v ED archie bash w Let s exit Konsole for now and add an iPhone entry on Dolphin Open Dolphin and make sure that you have Places enabled on the sidebar If you don t have it just press F9 On any empty area on Places right click and select Add Entry On the Add Places Entry dialog box type in the following Label iPhone Location mnt iPhone Click on the folder icon on Choose an icon and locate a
31. Xvid program it s only fitting that we discuss this hot topic one that has spawned many heated debates and arguments The law is quite ambiguous In the U S there appears to be significant conflict between the old copyright law and the DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act amendment to that copyright law regarding fair use by consumers and circumventing access controls According to the writers of the amendment the DMCA does not trump traditional use of copyrighted materials as has been previously established by law and the courts Although the Hollywood movie studios and the MPAA would love for you to believe otherwise it IS perfectly legal in the U S anyways check the laws for your region of the world for you to make a backup or archival copy of your legally purchased DVD movies for archival purposes But that s only if you are a U S citizen and if you go by the U S courts rulings regarding copyrights and your rights to make a personal private archival copy That archival purpose could include creating a copy on your home media server s hard drive eliminating the disc swap dance involved with watching the movie as it is presented on the DVD drive The DVD disc producers even go to great lengths to prevent you from making that legal archival copy with copy protection schemes that have become quite elaborate and tricky Presumably the movie studios claim that the copy protection schemes are needed to prevent
32. Zoom is actually one of those Firefox Add ons that is very simple Right click on an image and select the level of magnification that you want to apply to that image Select more than 100 and the Adeona Jimi Zoo image will be enlarged Select less than 100 the image will be shrunk down As simple as it is Image Zoom is quite customizable Customizing Image Zoom First open up your Firefox Add ons box or page scroll down to Image Zoom and select the Preferences button Image Zoom Preferences General Zoom Context Menu Rotate Context Menu Help Page vi Access functions by holding down the Right E mouse button Image Fit Button Left s O Image Reset Button Middle gt Scroll Zoom Increments 5 3 a Scroll Mode Relative a Individual Zoom Options Zoom In Out Factor 200 v K Cancel OK Under the General tab you can specify how Image Zoom behaves on your computer The values displayed above are the default values Here you can change mouse button assignments and select to use the scroll button on mouse to zoom images by selecting the check box Image Zoom Preferences General Zoom Context Menu Rotate Context Menu Context Menu Display Options M Zoom In M Zoom Reset T Zoom Out View Image fd Custom Zoom Copy Image Custom Dimensions Copy Image Location Zoom In Zoom Reset Zoom Out Custom Zoom Custom Dimensi
33. ahead of the screenshots so that the possibilities for error are minimized Take your time read carefully and you should be fine Take Things In Order please don t jump ahead of the prompts that Clonezilla gives you unless you are already an expert Save any tricks and shortcuts until after you have made a few successful backups and recoveries This is especially true when if Backup Basics Part 2 Using Clonezilla Live connecting external storage to be used for storing an image Heeding these cautions will save you headaches folks Not heeding them is almost certain to induce them Configuring Your System To Boot From CD Now that the preliminaries are out of the way the next thing to be attended to is making sure your system can boot from the Live CD If your system is configured to do this already skip ahead to the next section Most folks who run PCLinuxOS have already figured out how to do this by now but I ve covered the basics of where to go to refresh your memory in case it s been a while NOTE You should probably go ahead and place the Live CD in the optical drive during or shortly after entering the BIOS Setup as described below That way when the system restarts after exiting from the BIOS Setup it will boot from the Live CD without further intervention on your part If you need to know how to do this part you will almost certainly have some reading to do as configuring your system to boot from an
34. al Disc a Open with VLC media player v BA Hardware Storage Volume Optical Disc li Optical Disc O Device Actions s Digital Camera 4 x A System Settings Access Storage Drive Storage Volume volume Optical Disc volume Camera gt 2 Display and Monitor i ZA information Sources d Action name Mount or Unmount iPhone 4 4 gt E Input Devices folume J W OK Cancel Power Management 0 olume Optical Disc Storage Volume Optical Disc Storage Volume Optical Disc Q Create audo CD with K3D ra Copy with K3b Removable Devices gt Ja Multimedia gt A System Administration gt SO Lost and Found FF Add Z Edit No Action Selected Default es Lier Editing Action Mount or Unmount iPhone System Settings D w 4 l Mount or Unmount iPhone Command x v S home archie Documents misc scripts mgmt iphone sh ag H Devices must match the following parameters for this action The devices property Supported Drivers must equal gphoto Edit Parameter Parameter type Property Match v Device type Camera Vv Value name Supported Drivers v Equals wi gphoto Reset Parameter Save Parameter Changes W OK Cancel In Editing Action Mount or Unmount iPhone dialog box click the floppy disk on the right hand side of Command and locate the script Change the icon accordingly Change the Parameter type to Property Match the Device type to Camera the Val
35. at there should be plenty of help to go around to those users who willingly and voluntarily come seeking Linux Fourth show potential new users your Linux desktop Show them how many of their learned computer skills will transfer to Linux Show them how their daily computing needs can be met with an Operating system that doesn t cost them a week s wages While we won t be able to afford big advertising budgets or be able to pump huge amounts of cash into a distro there are lots of things each of us can do to help Linux gain the respect and loyalty of those new users They are after all the future of Linux Most of us sought refuge with Linux In fact very few of us actually started our computer usage with Linux as Our primary operating system Most of us actually MLS EEA T saree ote by E EETA 17 Linie 25310115 TI 329112 Linux belongs to everyone The best things in life are free Download PCLOS and enjoy it just like me Texstar s design is so refined He can compile with oh such style And Linux can come to everyone The best things in life are free PCLOS fits everyone Many choices for you and me It s the OS for everyone on that we all agree Your desktop will shine just like mine Get it now it Is the time And Linux can come to everyone The best things in life are free 18 Vjelao Pare 7 DVD Gje by Paul Arnote parnote Can copy my DVDs Before get into talking about the DVD2
36. ations of having only the most stable applications in their repos and you are likely to have a very stable system Some computer users switching to Linux rely rightly or wrongly on the advice of a well meaning friend This can end up being a double edged sword depending on the level of experience the friend 22 has coupled with their proficiency with Linux Taking the advice of a friend who has neither could spell a recipe for disaster while taking the advice of someone with a fairly good level of experience and proficiency can help the new user make a smooth transition The latter is only possible if the friend is capable of breaking things down into an easy to understand manner and as long as the friend doesn t forget that they also had to learn Linux from the ground floor With some people that higher level of proficiency and experience can be something that turns new users away from Linux if the assistance isn t conveyed in a constructive and encouraging manner aa ubuntu Dreamlinux back track ma x CHAKRA cruncueanc S Ge lt debian j i mi t Fl mn eh ne r HE Need al kJ One thing that certainly does not help is the users of one Linux distro bashing and bad mouthing the users of another Nor does it help to have overzealous fans singing the praises of one Linux distro over another with claims that are not easily substantiated or claims that are more a product of hyp
37. bindkeys medit HOME xbindkeysrc amp amp xbindkeys What does this command do killall xbindkeys stops xbindkeys Now your shortcuts will be gone medit HOME xbindkeysrc opens the hidden config file xbindkeysrc in your home directory As well as medit you can use kwrite gedit or whatever your editor of choice is amp amp xbindkeys will start xbindkeys after we have stored and closed our editor Last we need an icon Without an icon wbar will not display our new starter use usr share icons gnome 48x48 apps gnom e settings keybindings png Title Tastenkurzel Comm and killall xbindkeys medit HOM fusr share icons gnome 48x48 Save it and click on reload to display the new icon starter KI VV AGA DE Pa Ar ea SCO he of NOTE DS If you click on this icon xbindkeys will stop and your specified editor will open the xbindkeysrc config file Datei Bearbeiten Suchen Ansicht Dokument Werkzeuge Fenster Hilfe 2 Aas OU 24 xbindkeysrc x 4 For the benefit of emacs users shell script HHH HHH HH HHH HHH HARE xbindkeys configuration HSESS ESET SESS PES SSS SSS Version 1 8 0 jyemsneiajeq If you edit this file do not forget to uncomment any Lines that you change The pound symbol may be used anywhere for comments To specify a key you can use xbindkeys key or xbindkeys multikey and put one of t
38. click View gt Slideshow to play your slide show Blue Marine From the blueMarine web site An open source application for the digital photo workflow the blueMarine project will provide you an all in one tool for managing your photos from the Shoot up to the archiving and beyond blueMarine is an expandable open platform and includes specific support for different photographers communities as well as the latest technologies Upon first opening of blueMarine the program will guide you through some preliminary operations dt The workspace is a single cer ich hater where blueMarine stores everything galleries and preference settings You can ae f workspace at a time but it is possible to switch among different workspaces by stopping and restarting blueMarine Please select an existing folder or create a new one Should you move the workspace ve kj noe rea ons blue wizard again and ask you to locate G 1 It will designate its workspace home you Pictures bluemarine MyPhotos bmw creating a hidden file for it s own use rire 7 Select the maximum amount of memory in komen that blueMarine will allocate Roughly speaking 512 mega should be ok if you don t deal with RAW photos or deal with small RAW photos 1 pr is required if you deal with medium large RAW photos In lt dyrene setting should stay 25 below the amount of the phi alr em installed on you of instance if your physical memory
39. comm2011 Ga Check out some of the pictures from the conference below uN The Fedora ambassadors The next event in Greece is the FOSS conference from May 20th to May 22nd For more information in Greek visit http conferences ellak gr 2011 BESS 5 GNON E Looking for an old article Can t find what you want Try the The Rio Antirio Bridge at night near the University of Patras as yh JN Sire afk S J x xia Ale ib nN A PA i v aN a SG B p Some of the conference attendees give their attention to one of the many presentations PCLinuxOS Magazine s searchable index ONE eLiek LINUX E ASTROWATCH COM joker A place for Linux beginners ft into computing Use Linux BSD orge and 2008 Mark Szorady PHOLY Let s continue our look at programs that are mainly photo viewers eog Eye of Gnome According to Synaptic Eye of Gnome is meant to be a fast and functional image viewer as well as an image cataloging program You can view your photos see the camera settings information exif and even send them by email with the help of the extra plugins and a little configuration Image Edit View Go Help 1414 x 856 pixels 210 2KB 46 18 396 The exif information is visible if you View the Sidepane and your collection appears across the Via ars Galor bottom of your window by clicking View gt Image Collection In addition you can
40. cool iPhone icon If you dont have any there are some good stuff over at Interfacelift or you can try this iPhone icon Click OK and you should have an additional entry for iPhone on your Dolphin sidebar When you click the icon now there won t be anything in Dolphin to display r 9 x v o archie Dolphin w 2 hd wy File Edit View Go Tools Settings Help lt a o gt 4 reload f x E gt Archie 4 7 hm Movies n Videos v P asaf u Preview 9 NewTab 4 Split Q Q gt Places o Desktop Documents Downloads x Add Places Entry 2 w J vj A wv wv Label A Enter descnptuve label here i Location MERE a 6 ou Choose an icon A Only show when using this application Dolphin OK Cancel Fa ae pm The Script To get all this in place we will need to be able to mount and necessarily unmount the iPhone For this we will need a script to trick Device Notifier into recognizing the mount point as a storage device Open Kwrite and type in the following simple script bin sh mntp mnt iPhone if mount grep mntp then ifuse mntp notify send u normal iPhone Mounted The iPhone is now mounted dolphin mntp else fusermount u mntp notify send u normal iPhone Unmounted The iPhone is now unmounted fi mnt iPhone if ifuse notify send u normal dolphin fusermount u notify send u normal fi Sav
41. creenshot Showcase Computer Languages A to Z Watfiv Disclaimer More Screenshot Showcase Or Conran The PCLinuxOS name logo and colors are the trademark of Texstar The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication containing PCLinuxOS related materials It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community The magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the PCLinuxOS community Visit us online at http www pclosmag com This release was made possible by the following volunteers Chief Editor Paul Arnote parnote Assistant Editors Meemaw Andrew Strick Stricktoo Artwork Sproggy Timeth ms meme Meemaw Magazine Layout Paul Arnote Meemaw ms meme HTML Layout Sproggy Staff Neal Brooks ms meme Galen Seaman Mark Szorady Patrick Horneker Darrel Johnston Guy Taylor Meemaw Andrew Huff Gary L Ratliff Sr Pete Kelly Daniel Meifg Wilhelm Archie Arevalo Contributors horusfalcon Efstathios losifidis The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike 3 0 Unported license Some rights are reserved Copyright 2011 Walevi F There s no mistaking it Summer is almost here and there is no shortage of volatile late Spring weather in the central parts of the United States The recent large outbreak of tornadoes in the central parts of the U S have punctuated the news and lives of many people In a one week period at the end of May o
42. d highlight bar will be over it In any case select 29 Backup Basics Part 2 Using Clonezilla Live savedisk and press ENTER to continue Once we ve been through the demo feel free to do a saveparts to save partitions but we re not doing that just now The next screen that displays will show the default filename Clonezilla has chosen for your image Mine looks like 2011 05 19 01 img Notice there are no spaces special characters or other invalid stuff in this folder name that s what it is really The default is the date in Japanese format YYYY MM DD followed by a two digit number which naively assumes we won t be making more than 99 images in a single day You can of course alter this so will rename mine as follows 2011 05 19 01 Compag V500 PCLinuxOS img That s just so can look at the image and tell a little more about where it came from press ENTER to continue and I m greeted with another screen asking me to choose a local disk as the source this is the drive we ll be taking the image from This choice is easy for me there s only one hard drive on my system If your hardware varies signficantly do the reading and make the choice that will yield the desired result Whatever you choose is about to be imaged and the image will be compressed and stored on the target device you have previously selected Pressing ENTER to continue yeah there s a pattern here I m greeted with another screen aski
43. d roots and jam band ApeilUgriain Artist Year Album V from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist g Jaha Anden John Butler They formed in Fremantle in D li Archie Arevalo 1998 with Jason McGann on drums and 1 Revolution 5 06 1 439 tracks gt Gavin Shoesmith on bass guitar By 2009 k One Way Road 3 05 eee the trio was Butler with Nicky Bomba on STORENG 2 42 drums and percussion and Byron Luiters i 9 on bass guitar 4 I d Do Anything Soldier s Lament 3 20 5 Ragged Mile Spirit Song 3 57 _ The band s second studio album Three 6 SG Ks 4 54 2001 reached the top 30 in the Australian Johnny s Gone z album charts and achieved platinum sales 7 Close To You i 3 51 The band s subsequent studio albums 8 Don t Wanna See Your Face 2 43 Sunrise Over Sea 2004 Grand National z 2007 and Apri Uprising 2010 all debuted Pre NE so at the number one position on the 10 Fool For You 5 07 Australian album charts with all three 11 To Look Like You 4 19 albums reaching platinum sales status 2 Steal It 3 42 Living 2001 2002 2003 the band s first live aac album reached the top ten and also 13 Mystery Man 3 55 achieved platinum status in Australia The 14 Gonna Be A Long Time 3 46 band s second live album Live at St Gallen 15 A Star Is Born 4 35 2005 also achieved gold record status The band s releases since 2002 have been marketed independently by Jarrah Records a which Butle
44. down at end Abort After you select the Start button the main although the quality loss does start to become quite The use of DVD2Xvid is easy and straight forward DVD2Xvid window will disappear and the above noticeable once you select video bitrates under 800 and makes the job of creating digital backup copies window will take its place This window will show you kbps quite simple the progress of the transcoding process Since most of the information in the window has German labels al you will probably be most interested in the Groesse ar yy aja a i k G a oa 2 Size Restzeit Remaining and Encodiert o f S d d f c p fi UM C Awd No Encoded information The Remaining label will display an approximation of how much time is remaining for the current phase of the encoding process to complete The Size label will display an approximation of the final file size which really isn t accurate until you get into the second pass of a two pass encoding The Encoded label will tell you how many sectors have been encoded along with the percentage of the current phase of encoding is completed Summary DVD2Xvid is a handy tool to have especially if you have a home media center For example my transcoding of The Brave Little Toaster from a DVD to an Xvid encoded AVI file stored on my hard drive ended up weighing in right at 900 MB in size This saves a LOT of space when you cons
45. e script itself has not been updated since September 2001 The current version of WindowMaker has been 0 92 since 2008 Unfortunately wkdemenu pl implements the user menu in a format that is compatible with versions earlier than 0 90 While WindowMaker can use menus in the older format converting the generated menu to the new format using wm oldmenu2new will prevent PCLinuxOS from updating the menu when software is added to or removed from the system using Synaptic You may use wm oldmenu2new if you wish to manually edit the WindowMaker system menu when you add or remove software with Synaptic This utility is used by the WindowMaker Configuration Utility and by WindowMaker Preferences Prefs app wmCalClock is a 64x64 pixel application that displays the date and time in the WindowMaker dock It is located directly below the Dock icon This application starts when you launch WindowMaker wmagnify is a WindowMaker application that magnifies a small portion of the display where the mouse pointer is at This is an accessibility tool provided with WindowMaker wmaker inst is executed when WindowMaker is run for the first time This initializes the GNUStep WindowMaker directory in your home directory where your personal preferences are stored as well as your custom backgrounds and themes msetbg is a command line utility that sets the background on your current workspace Of course you will need to supply various options with
46. e and close again below If you have opened a document and decide Master fane that you want to use your Apply to master page you can go to Page gt Apply Master Page and a window will open asking which pages you want to apply it to FT Within Range 1 a 3 Choose yours If you Cancel have a multi page document you have the option of applying the master page to certain pages or all of them It will be applied to the page or pages you have designated Current Page Even Pages Odd Pages C All Pages Templates and Master Pages are very useful each in their own way If you want to save some time in your creation experiment with each and develop what works for you Next time we will look at ways to give your document a little flair Doiwyola TE amp GET READY TO USE YOUR AB TOUCH AND POKE AWAY THOSE POUNDS x 2 e es rolf 3 Q The Gimp is exactly like other photo editing programs It uses the standard approach of multiple layers to create a composite image The default file format for Gimp layered images is xcf But what about those times when you may not want to add a new layer behind an existing layer Perhaps you just want to add a couple of pen strokes that fall behind the subject The common way to accomplish this is to simply create a new MILES UT e lt Gli Tio GET READY TO USE YOUR AB TOUCH AND POKE AWAY THOSE POUNDS layer make
47. e then someone would be charging for it They simply don t understand the very different business model that Linux operates under How can development continue especially at the current pace when you give away the end product What isn t visible to many is that much of the development is funded by many heavy hitters and big players in the computing industry This includes companies like IBM Hewlett Packard Cisco Red Hat Google the Mozilla Foundation and many others Let s take Red Hat as an example Red Hat markets Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is a version of Linux with paid enterprise support It s not the actual operating system that is being sold Rather it s the paid support that is sold Red Hat makes its money from selling that support IBM makes money selling an enterprise version of Linux as well as the equipment to run it on Many companies profit from contributions to the Linux code base by not having to pay licensing fees for the use of commercial operating systems In fact Linux shows up in some of the most unlikely places It serves as the operating systems that run DVD players menus on TVs cell phones and many other consumer electronics goods From working ina hospital can tell you from first hand experience that it also shows up in medical testing equipment Linux is everywhere today As it turns out the financial contributions to improving Linux come at a far less expensive price than licens
48. e DirectoryOpus program from the JanusUAE program launcher bar gives us a completely different desktop interface than Workbench en Ar A Ran Disk 39 30 free m ne Ol svor 21 dd 1 22d ole 2 JM I tried a couple of programs from my Amiga magazine CDs and they both worked didn t attempt anything that is graphics intensive It s time to close JanusUAE and the proper way to do it is by pressing the last button on the right of the program launcher bar UAEConfig Click the Quit UAE button to exit Before closing this last article on Icaros I d like to eS d Kl z mention a new enhanced version of AROS AROS ee International Community Broadway for three reasons First of all it has a z PCLinuxOS Sites different program launcher called Quickstarter It expands both vertically and horizontally to give quick access to selected applications Has PCLirux0s av Netherlands fn der WALLFAFEK Make sure that wipe disk is selected cick on proceed 24 pr i Icaros does indeed have the same capabilities It s just that AROS Broadway has implemented them Denmark out of the box Czechoslovakia PCLiruxOS _ sila jednoduchosti PCliruxOs it a Italy Second it implements a multi user system using a setup tool called Login PRN DF Last but not least not only are desktop icons implemented the broadway guide icon lau
49. e PCLINUXO vere once onna like how we ac beginners things around here 7 ON Radically Simple VYjelao Pare 3 A ejeric by Paul Arnote parnote There is another video tool in the PCLinuxOS repository that you will want to have in your video tool chest AcidRip makes it very fast and easy to rip your DVDs to AVI files Written in Perl and Gtk 2 0 AcidRip provides a graphical user interface to the mencoder command line utility and literally provides one click transcoding from a DVD if you accept all of the default values acidrip 4 General Video Preview Queue Settings Video source General Filename avi g File size Files Info name lt f Audio 1 2 0 03 33 3 0 00 18 4 0 00 52 5 0 00 33 6 0 01 10 7 0 00 41 8 0 01 56 Language lt Default gt English on 9 0 00 09 Codec mp3lame Gain 10 0 00 14 Options abr br 128 Selected Track 1 1 24 07 Other stuff Cache status Subtitle lt None gt s O Sub File Chapter dried lal gme Encoding status Encoding speed 79 64fps Estimated filesize 407mb A Stop Time encoded 0 07 12 540 122 Average bitrates m F v yy YI I I 7 Vv Encoding film 1st pass When you first launch AcidRip you will see something similar to the screen shot above The window is divided into five tabs where you can set the options for the transcoding of your DVD movie PCLinuxOS PR Radically Sim
50. e and other unrealistic claims Typically the old adage if it s too good to be true it probably is tends to ring true The distro bashing and fan boy claims turn potential new users off and often make it appear that even Linux users cannot even get along with one another It often appears as if there is a civil war brewing among Linux users With the free open source nature of Linux distro bashing is much like shooting yourself in the foot Joli OS 5 Puppy en ap _wvattos A OG Fusion DE DT openSUSE Jenin MEPIS MeeGo MODN S Scientific pr h archbang Lubuntu slackvare sabayon gentoo linux mageia A VDUNTUSTUOIO and in the end it may end up shooting us somewhere much more vital Since Linux is FOSS free open source software many distros borrow from one another all of the time Even in PCLinuxOS it s not uncommon to see a mix of ideas borrowed from other distros without prejudice If it works why not use it This is also one of the reasons that distro bashing in the PCLinuxOS forum is not allowed Imagine this if you can You need a new tail light for your 1991 Chevy Corsica You go down to the Salvage yard They tell you they don t have any 1991 Chevy Corsicas that you can get the part off of but they have a 1992 Buick Skylark which used the same tail light By the way don t really know if the two tail lights are the same I m simply using this situation as
51. e language systems in Wikipedia points out that the there was a major difference in the programming styles of businesses developing FORTRAN applications and students developing code for computer science course assignments The early FORTRAN implementations required a three step process of compile link and execute The systems developed from Waterloo combined this all into one operation which was more useful for students who were more apt to develop code with errors The University of Waterloo developed systems for the IBM 260 and later IBM 370 as well as the PDP 11 and other computer operating systems The first version of Watfiv began to be used in 1968 Various additions to the language were added A system of structured programming languages was LiruxOS ua Radically Simple added and the series had this feature noted by being called Watfivs Watfors and Watfor11s which was for the PDP11 version of the system Wintfvug pdf Ark n Matfvug p l POF document The set of compilers was widely adapted an and Canada The University sold several hundred thousand of these implementations eo by many universities in the United States ff E Seo z It has been noted that computer courses in Watfiv were still being taught at the University of Mississippi as late as 1995 As mentioned in the articles on FORTRAN the language was set up by punching lines of code into an 80 column Hollerith card The set
52. e the script as any appropriate filename AS suggested mgmt iphone sh to any safe location and make sure it is executable chmod o x mgmt iphone sh To break the script down ifuse mntp is the command to mount the iPhone What the script would do when it is executed is to mount the device and open the mount point in Dolphin Or if already mounted it would unmount it with Fusermount u mntp But the script is too cumbersome by itself So what we need to make the PCLinuxOS user s life easier is to add another action to the USB Imaging Interface when the device is detected by Device Notifier When clicking the action the script would be executed and the iPhone would be mounted followed by Dolphin opening the mount point s directory Another click on the action would unmount the device PCLiruxOS Advertisement The Device Notifier Open KDE System Settings aka Configure Your Desktop Navigate to Hardware gt Device Actions and click Add Type in Mount or Unmount iPhone in the Action name dialog box and click OK Device Actions System Settings J Ac ri rv n P Configure Y Help A ks Quit Common Appearance and A configuration tool for managing the actions available to the user when O Workspace Appearance an gt em Network and Connectivity S Rip Video DVD Titles with K3b Storage Volume Optical Disc f Play Audio CD with Amarok Optical Disc rN Open with VLC media player Storage Volume Optic
53. eae9 e0e1e0 dbdcdb IconTitleFont sans pixelsize 10 PTitleBack mdgradient 000000 8c8c8c aaaaaa WindowTitleFont sans bold pixelsize 10 UTitleColor 000000 MenuDisabledColor a4a4a4 ClipTitleFont sans bold pixelsize 10 MenuStyle flat MenuTextBack solid e6e7e6 PTitleColor 000000 IconBack tHbfbfbf mdgradient e6e7e6 blue MenuTitleBack 5772b4 415faa mdgradient 2b4da0 DisplayFont sans pixelsize 10 in WindowMaker on PCLinuxOS WindowMaker Internals Part 1 FTitleBack mvgradient 5772b4 415faa 2b4da0 WindowTitleExtendSpace 1 TitleJustify right CClipTitleColor a4a4a4 ResizebarBack solid 8c8c8c MenuTextColor 000000 ClipTitleColor 000000 IconTitleBack 2b4da0 HighlightTextColor ffffff IconTitleColor ffffff MenuTitleFont sans bold pixelsize 10 MenuTitleColor eeeeee wkdemenu pl is a Perl script that reads in the current menu configuration from the KDE desktop The PCLinuxOS implementation of WindowMaker uses this script to get a list of applications to create the user menu It accomplishes this by setting up an external menu which is called to retrieve the listing of applications available in the KDE installation Then any additional applications it finds will be inserted into separate menu entries Warning Th
54. ed to restore that disk or partition to the Originally captured state It may also be used on systems with identical hardware to duplicate a running system from a prototype machine onto all the others This process is commonly referred to as cloning a system The baseline system configuration is best backed up after all the post install configuration and user customizations are done but this is not the only time Clonezilla Live can be useful any time that a complete image of a system is needed it would be hard to find a tool that is faster more reliable or easier to use LiruxOS UX Simple Tool List The tools needed to do this task are a covers the minimum repr requirements which are quite modest for all except the oldest hardware I recommend burning to CD R instead of CD RW simply because this won t change and because CD RW can be a bit slower to burn and read A storage device capable of holding the image will be using a portable USB hard drive for the purposes of this article A large flash drive could also easily serve this purpose if the data set being imaged is small enough but it s likely to be somewhat slower Downloading CloneZilla Live Let s look at that first item Clonezilla Live burned to a CD R To get an ISO image for Clonezilla Live browse to http clonezilla org downloads stable iso zip files ohp and select an image that is right for your hardware The URL will take you directly to the
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56. elopment going No one is getting rich from development of community based distros Just ask Texstar He ll give you an honest answer As a matter of public record there are Linux distros that are largely funded by the financial wealth of individuals much as Ubuntu receives a significant amount of its funding from Mark Shuttleworth who started Canonical This situation however is the exception and not the rule PCLinuxOS does not have any wealthy individuals underwriting and backing its continued development Instead it survives purely on the generosity of its users and the donations they make Other cost savings to users of Linux come from the use of not only a FOSS operating system but by also the use of FOSS programs in its repository Sure Linux doesn t have the use of Microsoft Office Instead we have the use of LibreOffice Instead of paying another 200 or more for the use of an office Suite we use LibreOffice for free All across the board virtually every program used on Linux is free software whose development is largely funded in the same way as Linux itself Linux users save even more by not having to purchase not only the software that is used on a day to day basis but also by not having to purchase anti virus anti spyware and anti malware software To date there are no Linux viruses in the wild So at this time it is pointless to run anti virus software on Linux unless you are trying to help protect Wind
57. ences to the new screen size Maximum Size 16384 x 16384 pa Maximum Colors 16777216 Height 864 Depth 24 Autoscroll y ere m l _ p First I attached the AmigaForever CD to VirtualBox After starting Icaros I selected My Software gt AmigaApps gt Setup AmiBridge from the menu This launches a set of scripts to install JanusUAE 37 800x600x4 resolution bottom center 4 bits is only 16 colors but the default resolution should be 16 bits which is 256 colors No problem Using the ScreenMode button at the bottom of the screen we ll change this A Get Amiga Forever o 2 ADD_PROGRAM g System apps H ADD_ADF GAME B ruses o After installation is complete a new icon is added to the menu to launch JanusUAE Display Mode Mode Properties In the Setup AmiBridge window the AmigaForever CD is listed as a source and I chose it Misc Utilities D Setup AmiBridge A Get Amiga Forever ADD_PROGRAM g ES 4 ADD_ADF GAME OG ruse 9 There are many graphics modes offered including standard Amiga NTSC and PAL ones We ll use the After launching we see the pre configured uaegfx driver with a resolution of 1024x768x32 for AmigaForever s UAE Workbench desktop in full color After choosing press the Save button Clicking the AmigaForever button launches an IconX window which shows the files being copied The files were copied so quickly only managed to ge
58. es gt Alt Ret Dyp gt Reload Image gt F5 gt Enter Restore Original Size gt O gt Rotate 90 Degrees gt 9 gt A StarTrails jpg JPEG image 243 9 KIB VA a Ratata 120 Neareoc gt 2 d z5 w Fi Help amp Defaults 2 OK 9 Apply Cancel Simply double click on the file you want to view and it will open in another window b s I bd dd S mrd dd bd dred Had r d I aiii j pth yt bd te oh RS OR Ee shome meemaw Pictures Monitor Pics Kuickshow Show Next Image Frie 2 I Gakk es spelar Tigi ar ELLE PTE EAR GAETE E Show Previous Image pot There IS also a a Zoom In i ae right click So Oe BEE menu of the Restore Original Size ean AG same thing if sd It s easier than E mc2 a Z you would It s elemental Maximize Rotate 180 Degrees Q rather use your Rotate 270 Degrees 70 gr mouse one gt It s light years ahead fr M Vou can start It s a wise choice Contrast aes ie the slideshow It s Radically Simple Delete Image Shift Del i from File gt l Print Image Ctrl P Start t S l Save As P i CE Slideshow Properties Alt Return Q Close Ctrl W dd il Next month we ll start looking at viewers that have even more features 48 ins 112025 HODGE On GI72 Ma A riora Oh give me a home where the blue bull doth roam And users in the Sandbox do play Where files don t get lost and there is no cost On my desktop a beautiful display PCLOS is my home
59. ey50 will set a 50 percent grey background in the current workspace Likewise wmsetbg e s mybackground jpg will fill the background with whatever picture is in mybackground jpg There are other command line utilities provided with the PCLinuxOS implementation These are typically called from applications written specifically for WindowMaker and are not directly called froma command line Some of these applications are downloadable from Synaptic while others are available from http www dockapps org Typically these applications have names that begin with wm for WindowMaker and you can find them by searching windowmaker from within Synaptic The getstyle and setstyle commands use a text file containing display attributes or properties that are used by WindowMaker to display windows icons menus the Dock and Clip and the background of each Workspace on your desktop Notice that the overall text file generated by the getstyle command is in a format similar to a CSS stylesheet or a fragment of code in a language such as C C Java or Python This format is called a Property List in WindowMaker terms Property Lists are one of the core components of WindowMaker itself and the developers of WindowMaker created a separate library and API package for that purpose called libPropList and that package is available in the PCLinuxOS repositories Though it is not in xOS IXS Simple required for WindowMaker itsel
60. f you will need the libWindowMaker devel libPropList and libPropList devel packages if you wish to develop applications for WindowMaker with PCLinuxOS This display attributes file is an example ofa Property List used to configure your WindowMaker desktop Each attribute has at least one parameter which must be set Color parameters are notated as RRGGBB rgb RR GG BB or a named color as described for the wmsetbg command Font parameters are notated as name attribute pixelsize size where name is the name of the font and size is the font size in pixels Quotes are included with the parameter so be sure you include them sans means the generic sans serif font which is the default font for the PCLinuxOS implementation and it is used if WindowMaker cannot find the font you request The font size is expressed in pixels rather than points This is because computer displays are measured in pixels on the screen rather than points on the printed page attribute is optional and does not need to be included if you are using the normal variant of the font If you wish to use a bold font for example a bold sans serif font you would notate the font as name bold pixelsize size For an italic font you would notate the font as name italic pixelsize size You can also give WindowMaker a choice of fonts to use For name use a comma separated list of fonts that WindowMaker can use in order from first choice to an
61. file name and directory Here I chose to name my file the little toaster avi and to store it in my home parnote xfce Recordings directory Clicking the button next to Select Outfile will open a File Save As dialog box O Select title Track 01 01 30 06 v Preview Next select the title on the DVD that you want to make into an Xvid endoded AVI file All of the titles on the DVD will appear in the drop down listbox Typically the longest title on the disc is the feature film To be sure you have selected the correct title select the Preview button on the right to play the selection in a pop up MPlayer window i Picture quality settings 1200 v Motion search algorithm 0 Autoaspectoption IV Cartoonoption IV Bitrate options 2 Pass encoding M Under Picture quality settings select the options you want to use when transcoding your DVD title to an Xvid AVI file Select the video bitrate you want to use The default value is 1000 kbps Here I selected 1200 kbps from the drop down listbox Select the level of Motion search algorithm you want to use While O is the default value selecting a higher value will make motion search between frames much more sensitive although higher values will slow the transcoding process have found the default setting to work just fine for my needs LiruxOS ua Radically Simple have also selected 2 Pass encoding which will
62. for about 5 secs then press Enter key so that OS can detect the USB device and later we can mount it as home partimag Press Enter to continue Plug in the USB device as instructed and press ENTER This will bring up a fairly long list of USB enumeration data showing that the system has detected the device The last message should show XXX xxxxxx Sd 4 0 0 0 sdb Attached SCSI disk where XXX xxxxXxx IS a number of some kind I honestly don t know what significance it has Take note in the above line what appears where sdb appears in the line above as that information will be useful to you in the next screen if you re following along Once a similar message to the above is displayed and you know where the device you are using is attached sd whatever it is safe to press ENTER to continue The next screen will allow you to mount the USB device just attached to the system on home partimag Again the instructions here are definitely worth a look the first couple of times through NOTE in the case of my demo system which only has one SATA drive the USB drive I m using attached as dev sdb but in a system with more than one drive the USB device may fall out farther down the chain This is why recommended you read where your own system attached the device in the previous step Unhappily don t have screenshot of this particular screen and it s an important one The instructions are particularly relevan
63. for jobs or because our spouses are originally from the area Secondly where are you going to go Every area it seems has its share of natural disasters California has earthquakes and wildfires Residents of the Gulf of Mexico endure hurricanes Northeastern U S residents have to suffer through horrific winters and blizzards No matter where you go it seems that 2 there is some sort of natural disaster just waiting to spring forth when the conditions are right Normally make a plea for donations to PCLinuxOS to help support the continued development of our favorite Linux distro Certainly you should continue to do that But if you have any extra donations to either the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army both of whom are omnipresent and offering assistance in times of crisis would go a long way to helping provide relief to those who s lives have been disrupted Until next month wish each and every one of you peace tranquility serenity and prosperity ISSN 1836 5930 sonnig echt T Wolke Blogiysteme S re hei Pity Wordpress Want to keep up on the latest that s going on with PCLinuxOS Follow PCLinuxOS on Twitter FIAT WE j smed ER eg Posted by aguila May 3 2011 running KDE4 a http twitter com iluvpclinuxos Mountings 1113 Irion by Archie Arevalo Archie Not too long ago for many iPhone users Linux had been a bad mix However leap
64. gned for the Amiga DOS failed to materialize in what would no doubt be an interesting story in itself the Amiga was launched with AmigaDOS and the rest is history so to speak CAOS was always meant to be built on top of Exec in much the same way that AmigaDOS Is built on top of Exec HenryCase goes on to explain Essentially what happened is that Exec was written in house by Carl Sassenrath and the spec for the rest of the original OS CAOS was given out to an external team to code This external team didn t deliver on time so the code from Tripos was grafted onto Exec to make AmigaDOS Exec is the only component AFAIK that is left from the original OS design still think it s a massive shame we never got CAOS The subject of this article is installing JanusUAE to the Icaros desktop As stated previously UAE is an Amiga emulator written to run Amiga programs ona non Amiga although there is a version of UAE written for the Amiga Go figure JanusUAE was written to run on AROS and is currently at version 0 8 The AmigaForever s UAE installation defaults to 800x600 screen size but is really too small to do any justice to Amiga s Workbench Knowing that I wanted to run JanusUAE at a screen size of 1024x768 I chose to enlarge Icaros s screen size from 1024x768 to 1152x864 A simple edit of the grub cfg file resulted in booting to an Icaros VESA desktop of the new size Icaros automatically changed its Screenmode Prefer
65. h a text mode Linux startup and after that hard pressed to make sense of the screens that follow Next up is the keyboard map selection Configuring console data The keymap records the layout of symbols on the keyboard Select keymap from arch list select one of the predefined keymaps specific for your architecture recommended for non USB keyboards Don t touch keymap don t overwrite the keymap in etc console which is maintained manually with install keymap 8 Keep kernel keymap prevent any keymap from being loaded next time the system boots Select keymap from full list list all the predefined keymaps Recommended when using cross architecture often USB keyboards Policy for handling keymaps Now we are finally going to start setting up the imaging process Hint the instructions on this next screen are worth a look on your first time through Here s what that screen will look like Choose the first option device image to take an image of a drive or partition Clonezilla Clonezilla is free GPL software and comes with ABSOLUTE NO WARRANTY fffHint From now on if multiple choices are available you have to press space key to mark your selection An asterisk x will be shown when the selection is done Two modes are available you can 1 clone restore a disk or partition using an image 2 disk to disk or partition to partition clone restore Select mode the next screens displayed
66. hat runs on AROS 68k In other words much of the Amiga software written for the Motorola 680x0 CPUs will also run unmodified on the 68k version of AROS This was also pointed out by Tzimisce on the AROS EXEC forum In Part 2 said The messaging system of AmigaOS s Exec library is very fast and flexible based originally on Tripos According to Wikipedia s AmigaOS article In AmigaOS 1 x the AmigaDOS portion was based on TRIPOS which IS written in BCPL Interfacing with it from other languages proved a difficult and error prone task and the port of TRIPOS was not very efficient From AmigaOS 2 X onwards AmigaDOS was rewritten in C and Assembler retaining full 1 x BCPL program compatibility and it incorporated parts of the third party AmigaDOS Resource Project 3 which had already written replacements for many of the BCPL utilities and interfaces So only AmigaOS version 1 x s version of DOS was based on TRIPOS A better explanation as pointed out by HenryCase comes from hittp www thule no haynie caos html As most of you know AmigaDOS was not the first choice for the top level OS DOS on the Amiga computer What we now call AmigaDOS was really the backup DOS based on an already existing OS Known as Tripos developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory by the TRIPOS Research Group and converted with amazing speed by Metacomco s Dr Tim King and his band of programmers When the original intended desi
67. he LAST TIME thank goodness press ENTER to continue That completes the process of taking a system image of a disk My bare PCLinuxOS KDE system which weighed in around 6 7 gigs compressed to CPIS just under a gigabyte Wow that s tight I know from experience that this is typical of the default compression used by Clonezilla and is very reliable This image could now be transferred to a DVD for archival storage very easily bedst GR The restore process is virtually identical to that which FF re ee gt we just completed except that restoredisk is selected at the mode screen instead of savedisk and the prompts will ask for a source from which to read the image data which will be on the device and in the folder where the image previously taken was stored and then for a disk to which this image will be restored Careful reading of the prompts especially with regard to the restore target should get you there safely a Peer es ee ee Hopefully you can now play with this useful tool on your own and make it a part of your personal backup strategy AS you may have seen from this simple introduction it is a powerful toolkit and has many more uses than I ve outlined here A word or two in parting the Clonezilla website has a rich set of FAQs and offers a mailing list and forums for Support from a very active community of users and developers Reading and getting involved there will certainly enrich your u
68. he two lines in this file aysiiajeq The format of a command line is command to start associated key v gt Zeile 68 Spalte 1 Zeichen 2322 EINF If you create a new shortcut and close your editor xbindkeys will work fine again with a new key binding The only problem is that the command on the main window of wbar will display the wrong command don t know why this happens but it works Enjoy the new wbar Posted by Archie May 25 2011 running KDE 4 DE OS Come Join Us agazine Forum 53 Commoner Lang tziges 19 2 by Gary L Ratliff Sr eronstuc If you make the same mistake as I did and try to say this as what five then you are apt to be misled as to the nature of this language However if the IV is taken correctly to be roman numerals then you get the correct idea that this is a FORTRAN IV compiler from the University of Waterloo This is the same firm that created the language suite for the SuperPET computer system from Commodore mentioned in my coverage of FORTRAN in an earlier article in this series that FORTRAN was my initial language and I took a course in FORTRAN IV at Delta State University in 1970 The feature which made this system unique was the extensive debugging features this version offered Watfiv descended from the Watfor family of languages The University of Waterloo also developed a COBOL system called Watbol A review of th
69. his fact should stand as a testimonial to Linux s flexibility as well as its abilities Linux gained these inroads into scientific circles precisely for these reasons coupled with its security both for user data and its core components Today using Linux on a home computer is no more difficult than using any of the commercially available operating systems All operating systems have a learning curve whether it s Windows OSx Linux or anything else No one was born knowing how to run any of them Despite that Linux has the reputation of being the secret weapon of hackers and one where you are always having to tweak and mess with your computer However nothing could be further from the truth Personally do less tweaking and messing with my computer running Linux than ever did running Windows Things just work Period As far as being a hacker s playground there are just as many hacking tools available for the commercially available operating systems as there are for Linux 14 Attitudes are another thing and one that won t go away any time soon Although not the way practiced in the PCLinuxOS Forum there are still many other Linux forums where questions from new users are greeted with RTFM Read The Freaking Manual except another word is most often substituted for freaking or one of about a dozen versions or derivatives on that same theme Among some who are more experienced with Lin
70. ider that copying a DVD to your hard drive will often take up anywhere from five to ten GiB of space Certainly could have made the transcoded video s file size even smaller by selecting a lower video bitrate along with re encoding the audio to another codec at a lower bitrate have and have seen other videos encoded at video bitrates as low as 500 i kbps and even they were quite watchable Posted by raregazz May 10 2011 running Openbox 21 PELInitn lt wOsS on Older rlar ara by Darrel Johnston djohnston In 1999 my parents became the proud owners of a Dell Dimension 4100 computer The specifications were pretty good at the time It came with a Pentium III 800 MHz processor 128 MB of PC133 SDRAM an ATA 100 Ultra DMA 10 GB hard drive an 8X CDROM an ATI AGP 4X video card with 16 MB of video RAM and a 200 watt power supply It also came with two PS 2 connectors two USB 1 0 connectors five PCI 33 MHz slots two 5 25 inch drive bays and three 3 5 inch drive bays an internal 56K modem a generic sound card and a floppy drive Remember those I don t know why there are five drive bays because there are only two IDE controllers on the mother board each with two channels Suppose the extra bay was originally designed for a Zip drive connected to the floppy drive controller Surprisingly although it was available as an option the computer came with no ethernet controller My dad was in
71. ing commercial operating systems Employing teams of Linux programmers to make those improvements to tweak Linux to do what they need Linux to do on these various devices benefits not only themselves but the entire Linux FOSS community as a whole Community developers usually those who do it for pride and to learn then take those contributions and further enhance them which in turn further benefits those companies who are funding development 15 Fedora Linux is more or less the free version of Red Hat Things are developed and tried with Fedora and those items that work along with the information learned then make their way to Red Hat Enterprise Linux So as you can see there is a symbiotic relationship between those who fund and contribute to Linux development and the Linux FOSS community Both benefit from the continued development of Linux You may be wondering then how community based distros like PCLinuxOS survive and get by Quite simply they survive from donations from the community of users that use it The money that is donated goes to pay the living expenses of the main lead developer Texstar in the case of PCLinuxOS as well as the server expenses to host the ISO s of the distro and the programs in the repository Instead of paying 300 to 400 every couple of years fora copy of acommercial operating system users pay 25 or more your conscience is your guide to the developer to help keep dev
72. ix like systems written in GTK It provides an iPhone owner cum Linux user a means to organize his device add remove music files sort out photos etc iPhone Dolphin WP wow vo gtkpod iPod Manager ao Music Edit View Tools Help oF at g amp a PG de Load iPod s Save Changes Add Files Add Folder Add Playlist New Playlist Playlists Title Artist Album Time Rtng amp Music Library EN Podcasts lt Artist Album Genre Comp Title gt lt Artist Album Genre Comp Tite gt Album Art a The first thing you need to do is set up connecting your iPhone On the menu click Edit then Repository iPod Options Click Add new repository iPod In Create Repository dialog box the Repository type should be iPod and type in a name for the Repository name The iPod mountpoint should be ImntliPhone You can leave the iTunesDB backup as IS as the backup file will be created as you organize your iPhone Select the correct Model from the dropdown box For the time being we will leave the Synchronization section blank but there are several scripts in usr share gtkpod scripts At the time of writing this article I haven t had the chance to test them out Select the iPhone or whatever label you used for it from the list and click Load iPod At this point it eo woe gtkpod iPod Manager EN Music Edit View Tools Help J oP a de oh zy v A i i E
73. l equivalent software to replace it The funny thing was that he couldn t live without Works even though he had no saved documents created with it Stockholm syndrome Talk about a captive audience Stranger still both times I got his computer up and running again I did so by using Fprot from a Linux live CD to quarantine the affected files Even after the demonstrations of Linux s usefulness he would have no part of it My dad bless his soul passed away a few years ago My mom eventually became frustrated with Windows 98 Why did it run out of system resources I showed Mom that the unused portion of Windows 98 s 128 MB of RAM was still pretty healthy To this day Windows 98 has a system bug that no amount of RAM will ever cure Eventually the user will run out of system resources and will be forced to reboot in order to do anything useful with the computer And by this time Windows XP had come out Mom first wondered how much it would cost to install Windows XP The retail price of the installation CD was enough to give her sticker Shock I also informed her that we d have to add some system memory to run it However assured her I can install something to replace Windows You can do everything you do now you ll never get a virus and you ll almost never have to reboot Because she was having to reboot every other day not having to do that was a plus Then when she learned that this Windows replacement was available f
74. lay back on set top Divx capable players So you can rip your archived DVD movie burn it to a blank CD and play your copy This will allow you to leave the original in a safe place so it doesn t get damaged DVD2Xvid is available in the PCLinuxOS repository dvd2xvid V 0 7 0 File Expert Option Q Select DVD or the path to the DVD directory Mount DVD F Select outfile Recordings the little toaster avi O Select title Track 01 01 30 06 v Preview Picture quality settings 1200 Motion search algorithm o v Autoaspectoption Iv Cartoonoption IV Bitrate options 2 Pass encoding IV C Audio encodingoption 1 Soundtrack Standard sound 2 Soundtrack without Encodingoptions copy Bitrate options 384 Y Select with subtitle encoding Without subtite f C Time settings Modify time line foo its Start by 00 foo foo Stopby oo foo foo EJ Start or add to batch processinglist Append When you first start up DVD2Xvid you will see the screen above For my test run chose the animated feature The Brave Little Toaster as the DVD title that was going to rip V T 0 o HE o ams oem PA ADD AV If DVD2Xvid does not immediately find your DVD title click on the File button at the very top of the window and point DVD2Xvid to the directory that contains your DVD s VIDEO TS directory You will also need to select the output
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76. mencoder man files for more information on how to use those command line options If you ve set a target file size the resulting video bitrate will be shown in the bitrate entry and you cannot change the setting It merely becomes an informative entry to let you know what video bitrate will be used during the transcoding However if you place check the Lock Bits Px setting as have done here you will have full control over the video bitrate and the target file size entry changes to a state where it cannot be changed For my video transcoding I ve opted to target a specific video bitrate allowing the file size to fall where it may The next section of the Video tab allows you to crop your video image if you feel it is necessary Be careful that your resulting video height and width are evenly divisible by 16 Otherwise you may end up with a video file that may not play back properly If you want to change the output size of your video select the Scale check box If you select the Lock Aspect setting setting either the height or the width that you want will make the other default to a proportional value For my video transcoding since I m converting the video for playback on my Blackberry Storm want my video to be 480 pixels wide Fortunately these are also the default values for AcidRip The next settings Pre filters and Post filters allow you to apply special filters for your t
77. n approach where those distros that are most fit and that best support the needs of their users will be the 15 ones that survive Those that do not best support the started with Windows As such it makes little sense percentage of those new users If Linux is to grow needs of their users and that are not fit for whatever to make new Linux users pay their dues By and prosper as it can and should we need to reason will not be able to continue There will helping to make the transition as smooth as encourage those new users to stick around always be niche distros to cater to the specialty possible by offering the assistance that new users especially since they came willingly to seek a viable needs of small groups of Linux users However will undoubtedly need we can retain a larger alternative to the commercial operating systems continuing to bash one another for using one distro over another has to stop We are all after all using Pa P es Linux We have that kinship with one another gt e r if gt f C r gt f VV Ce b Secondly you can help spread the word about Linux In doing so be careful to avoid outrageous claims Just stick with simple facts If given a chance Linux will sell itself The work of the developers will sell Linux Third help new users Avoid the use of RTFM The days of paying your dues is behind us as well it should be Linux users have now grown to such numbers th
78. n t already done it insert the Live CD into the drive and allow the system to boot from it If all goes well you should sooner or later see a screen resembling this one Screenshots from Clonezilla org used with permission clonezilla org clowezil la vok Clonezilla live Default sett ing Other modes of Clonezilla Local operating system a dhe la live ve Ve NOHC Taiwan er Clonezilla TY are Labs NCHC Tatwan ORMRERE RRR s nezilla generally accept the default setting since all my gear does 1024x768 without a problem If you need to select a lower resolution scroll using the down arrow key to Other modes of Clonezilla live and press ENTER If you do you will see a menu that looks like this Clonezilla live Default sett ing Clonezilla live Default se Clonezilla live To RAM Clonezilla live Safe Clonezilla live Fe p later al are Labs NCHC Taiwan RUT RE ARARA TS nezilla From here you may easily scroll down to a screen resolution your system is capable of displaying Now would be a good time to mention that Clonezilla does not use graphics to speak of in the default mode all the menus from here onward are ncurses text menus Using your keyboard to navigate is simple enough and more controlled than using a mouse Once you have selected a graphics resolution and pressed ENTER the system will go throug
79. nches a short video tutorial top center 4 Kunne meres Polskie Centrum i Poland MAEA WO IB 40 WindowMa lt aron PCLinu lt Os Windowiher Internals Pure by Patrick G Horneker phorneker This article discusses command line utilities that WindowMaker uses to perform its magic on your desktop In order to further explain WindowMaker s capabilities it is necessary to explain the internal workings of the window manager This will also help when it comes time to explain how to create themes for WindowMaker The actual programs that make up WindowMaker itself are where one would expect to find them in usr bin Obviously wmaker is the program that starts up WindowMaker itself Like any window manager such as metacity for GNOME kwm for KDE or FVWM now in the PCLinuxOS repository wmaker is the main control program for the display of windows menus icons docks and the overall user experience that WindowMaker provides But there is more to WindowMaker than just wmaker There are a number of supporting command line utilities and dock applications that are included with the WindowMaker package startwindowmaker is a script that launches all components of WindowMaker first then wmaker itself When you select WindowMaker from the Session menu at the login screen this is the script that gets executed when WindowMaker is launched after you login to PCLinuxOS WindowMaker Terminal or wterm is Wi
80. nderstanding and help make Clonezilla even more useful to you The next tool hope to survey is luckyBackup but that s for next time Until then may all your backups be recoverable O eee Enz q G Posted by She_Devil May I 2011 running e17 31 Bootin slow Feelin low Need to go Right back where I belong MP3 OGG 7 ON Radically Simple Going home to PCLOS I mean home to the very best Fun place where users go To boot the night away Can t wait to get on the line Everything s gonna be so fine Now that I m on my toes No more puter woes Cool Forum Where the best folks meet ya Always roarin With their tux they ll greet ya Download it now don t be shy Give PCLOS atry Tell everything else goodbye Come home feel that high Forum Foibles Going Home Welcome home to PCLinuxOS Get ready for Welcome back hom some smooooooth sailing to have ya back pe Welcome home to the best Welcome back h Linux distro We re glad CLinuxOs We Heels to you are here Stick around elste dd eep getting bette JUSt better En A simple welcome home Welcome h e to ome t elcome home t hedrer We re hap cLinuxOSI an jae p making this your ne It DOES De fi home I m glad digs j your new tter You ll soon Ve near that you find The 98 in the Linux world things getting easier and PCLinuxOS Me eee easier as well worthy welcome hony ae e home to ARGE p peLinuxos You r
81. ndowMaker s equivalent to KDE s Konsole or GNOME s Gnome Terminal wterm does not have XOS IXS Simple the customization features available on Konsole or GNOME Terminal but it does give you a command line interface to your PCLinuxOS system getstyle can be used to save WindowMaker s state for the appearance of windows called display attributes a component that is part of WindowMaker themes setstyle is used to change the appearance of windows using a text file containing the display attributes usually saved with the getstyle command Typically we would call getstyle and redirect the output to a file to save the current set of display attributes for example getstyle gt pclinuxos style used the style extension in this example so that anyone would know the contents of this file define a style that WindowMaker uses Also this is the official extension used by the developers of WindowMaker for their set of styles included in the default installation For PCLinuxOS these files are stored in usr share WindowMaker Styles and in lusrlshare WindowMakerIThemes The following is the default style as supplied with the PCLinuxOS implementation of WindowMaker lines spaced out for clarity LargeDisplayFont sans pixelsize 80 HighlightColor 5b67b2 MenuTextExtendSpace 1 FTitleColor eeeeee MenuTitleExtendSpace 1 MenuTextFont sans pixelsize 12 UTitleBack mdgradient e9
82. ng if want the image checked for restorability On your first image it is a good idea to do this but it takes a bit of extra time So you ll have to decide for yourself will opt to check the saved image and yeah there s that ENTER key again PR Radically Simple A block of green text at the bottom of the screen informs me that kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk PS Next time you can run this command directly opt drbl sbin ocs sr q2 c j2 z1p i 2000 p true savedisk 2011 05 19 01 Compag V500 PCLinuxOS img sda This command is also saved as this file name for later use if necessary tmp ocs 2011 05 19 01 Compaq V500 PCLinuxOS img 2011 05 19 01 30 Press Enter to continue Yep I m in for a penny in for a pound now Pressing ENTER this time scrolls by a bunch of text and stops with a prompt at the bottom of the screen asking Are you sure you want to continue y n If you press n now you ve just aborted the whole thing and will have to start over if you intend to take an image anytime soon press the y key to continue taking the image and follow it with ENTER A whole nuther bunch of text will scroll by rather rapidly at the bottom of which will be a status line which updates the elapsed time time remaining percent completion and the data transfer rate My crummy little USB drive is doing 1 61 gigs minute The first partition 12 9 gigs about 4 7 gigs of which is u
83. nings some of them simultaneous dotted all around my location r Feljryr A little further from me but closer to Meemaw Joplin MO has had the national and international news spotlight thrust upon it after an EF5 tornado tore a one mile wide swath six miles long through the middle of that Missouri town of 50 000 people it s estimated that Joplin s population swells to 270 000 during the day when people in outlying areas commute into Joplin for jobs and commerce One of my co workers at the hospital also works at the hospital in Joplin MO that sustained a direct hit by the large tornado This particular tornado took the lives of over 120 people and left a path of destruction that will cost millions of dollars to overcome while leaving a large number of people homeless and their lives torn apart Already 2011 is the seventh most deadly year in regards to deaths 501 as of May 25 from tornadoes and the second most deadly year since NOAA NWS has started keeping records in the early 1950s The bad thing is that it s not over yet There will be more severe weather as the year continues and the death toll will undoubtedly and unfortunately climb Know a lot of people may be asking why do you live in that area of the country with these destructive and unpredictable storms It s not an easy question to answer First of all it s home For many of us it s where we were born The rest moved here
84. ocation Zoom mage 100 Zoom in Rotate Image 0 Zoom Reset Zoom Out g Save Image As Send Image Custom Zoom Set As Desktop Background Custom Dimensions View Image Info Image Fit Copy Page Title and Location As DownloadHelper 400 Adblock Plus Block image 200 150 125 100 e staff is pleased to announce the release of the E 15 nuxOS Magazine The PCLinuxOS Magazine is 50 blished by volunteers from the community The m si nd Assistant Editors Andrew Strick and Meemaw 5 er the Creative Commons Attribution NonComme re e rights are reserved 10 The screen shots above show how the Image Zoom menu items appear in the context menu of my Firefox 4 0 1 web browser Summary Jason Adams asks for a 2 U S donation if you find Image Zoom to be useful to you In my estimation It s worth that and more In fact Image Zoom is one of the first Firefox Add ons that I install whenever I do a new installation on any computer and I ve used it since it first appeared It has saved me lots of time over the years eliminating my having to download the image and then enlarge that particular image in an image editor It s small 78 KB and unobtrusive quietly waiting in the wings for whenever you need it Want To Help Would you like to help with the PCLinuxOS Magazine Opportunities abound So get involved You can write articles help edit articles serve as a technical advisor
85. ons Image Fit T Zoom Image Mg Image Fit 400 z 200 150 Z 125 TA 100 75 50 25 10 Save Image As H cancel wf OK Under the Zoom Context Menu tab you can select where menu items appear either in the top level menu or in the sub menu Simply place a check next to the items you want displayed Checking any of the items in the first menu list left places those items in the top level context menu while checking the items in the second menu list right places those selected items in the sub menu o Image Zoom Preferences General Zoom Context Menu Rotate Context Menu Context Menu Display Options View Image Copy Image Copy Image Location Rotate Right Rotate Left Rotate 180 Rotate Reset Ti Rotate Image M Rotate Right Rotate Left Rotate 180 f Rotate Reset Save Image As X cancel OK Similar to the Zoom tab the Rotate Context Menu tab allows you to specify if the rotate menu items appear in the top level menu left menu list or in the sub menu right menu list View Image n Copy Image Copy Image Location Zoom Image 100 I Rotate Image 0 Rotate Right Rotate Left Rotate 180 Rotate Reset ga Save Image As Send Image i Set As Desktop Background View Image Info Copy Page Title and Location As DownloadHelper Adblock Plus Block image i View Image Copy Image Copy Image L
86. optical disk is done from the BIOS setup and is done differently depending on what type of hardware you have making it difficult to cover all the variations in this article If you don t have a hard copy of it you may wish to locate a copy of your motherboard manual or System Users Guide online and print the information on your BIOS Setup for your reference What you will need to know if you don t already is What keystrokes are needed to cause your system to shift into its BIOS Setup Typically F2 F10 or some other function key during the Power On Self Test POST phase of system startup Which menu in the BIOS Setup is used to set up the Boot Order for the system In newer systems Boot Order has its own menu but a lot of systems hide this in the Advanced menu of the setup How commands are modified and saved in your BIOS Setup screens Typically Page Up amp Page DN are used to change values and F10 is used to save and exit from BIOS but check your system s manuals for specifics on this information Some setup menus even have context sensitive help so try that too Armed with this information you want to raise the optical drive CD or DVD drive above the system s hard drives in the boot order and then save the setup and exit from the BIOS Setup screen Your system will restart upon exit from the setup screen Booting From The Live CD Now that the system is configured to boot from the optical drive if you have
87. ows users who may receive files from you Summary Don t get me wrong There is a lot of good about Linux love Linux wanted to try to take a look at Linux from the view that a new user fleeing the tyranny of the closed source operating systems produced by Microsoft and Apple Once we as the Linux community stand in their shoes and try to understand how they see things the more we ll see Linux grow also wanted to take a look at Linux from the viewpoint of its detractors and in the process try to dispel some of the misconceptions and misinformation By doing so it gives all of us a better understanding Is Linux for every computer user Probably not Some folks needs are perfectly served by Windows Some folks computing needs are perfectly served by OSx Should every user switch to Linux Probably not At the very least users should at least know that another option does exist As it stands now many do not even know that Linux exists The answers for getting the word out about Linux are not clear With no traditional funding there is no way to pay for advertising For now word about Linux is spread by word of mouth and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon So is there anything we as Linux users can do Absolutely First we can stop bashing one another Despite calls for Linux distros to band together to create fewer larger distros do not believe that is necessary In fact take a more Darwinia
88. patience with the machine decided to upgrade it as much as possible The machine will hold a total of 512 MB of RAM so bought another 256 MB stick to replace the 128 MB one originally replaced the video card with a scavenged 512 MB nVidia AGP card The GPU was cooled by a fan which eventually burned out for some reason The computer now has a GeForce 6200 256 MB card in it passively cooled had a SoundBlaster Live PCI card in spare parts that went into it The 10 GB hard drive was simply not going to be enough installed two old hard drives a 2 GB ATA 66 IDE Hostname my PIll johnston Kernel 2 6 33 5 pclos1 bfs Uptime 2d 14h 45m i686 Intel Pentium III Coppermine CPU 798 MHz Processes 132 2 running Load 1 47 1 41 1 47 CPU1 100 RAM 197MiB 502MIB 39 SWAP 22 7MiB 1 71G1B 1 CPU MEM 96 53 4 19 1 54 5 04 Highest CPU FahCore_78 exe conky 1 16 0 95 parcellite 0 39 1 39 net_applet 0 39 4 74 Highest MEM CPU MEM knotify4 0 00 7 91 X 1 54 5 04 0 39 4 74 net_applet Filesystem PCLOS 30 0GiB 36 7GiB USBHD 0B 0B NETWORK Down 0B k s Up OB k s Sa Sa Total 62 9MiB Total 1 96MiB INT IP 192 168 1 4 EXT IP 72 198 96 103 which now holds my swap and boot partitions anda 40 GB UltraDMA ATA 100 IDE The factory stated 40 gigabytes is actually slightly less than 37 gigabytes in real terms The two USB 1 0 connectors just weren t enough use a USB KVM switch so bo
89. piracy which can be quite troublesome to the bottom line when it comes to home video sales of a title For many movies the revenue from home video sales can provide huge relief for a movie that had lackluster performance at the box office It s also the reason why so many recent box office releases find their way to home video within a few months of the film s original release doubt that there will ever be any way to eliminate piracy and it seems that more money is spent on trying to eradicate piracy than the piracy itself costs the movie studios overall While those committing piracy should be prosecuted going after and prosecuting persecuting the average home consumer who makes an archival copy of copyrighted media for their own personal use is NOT the answer Nor is going after the authors of software to circumvent access controls the answer since it tends to do more to stifle innovation and competition Whatever the case we won t settle the issue here in the pages of The PCLinuxOS Magazine At least you have some idea of the ground this debate covers DVD2Xvid The whole idea behind DVD2Xvid is actually pretty simple take a DVD and rip that DVD to an avi file encoded with the Xvid video codec The choice of Xvid is an outstanding one since the Xvid codec offers really good compression and very good quality as well as the ability to vary the quality from passable to excellent Many Xvid encoded files will also p
90. plate If I want to same page format as page 1 with a narrow Emine cue change anything in the basic layout can do it column on the left and a bigger column on the oo because it s a template right and one of the stories on each page having the rounded frame around it Since the reader s n On the other hand here at the magazine we use a eye will be drawn to a darker or thicker frame try Master Page so every page of the magazine has to place more important notices or stories in that exactly the same border at the top and bottom You frame can always cover those borders with something else but the master page is Since use this format found a couple of sites that have templates you can locked so it can t be altered easily most of the time have download for yourself made it into a template Both the template and the master page To save it as a template http scribusstuff org are handy items to have each very just choose File gt Save useful in its own way As Template You will http www oak tree us 2010 08 21 modern be asked to name your templates template If you use Templates something frequently http www scribustemplates org seems to be a site you should save it in a state of change Making a template is the same as doing a one page or several page project To use your template The difference is in your newsletter or simply open it and then Master Pages magazine you will fill the text
91. ple _ as well as the options for how AcidRip behaves and performs The first tab is called General In the upper section of the tab you can label the title of the DVD track you want to transcode as well as the location and name of the file You can select between saving your transcoded video file as either an AVI or MPG file If you are wanting to possibly store the video file ona CD R you can set the target size of the final transcoded video file 700 MB You can also specify how many files you want to transcode the DVD to The advantage of this is that if you specify multiple files each targeted at a specific file size you will end up with video files that use a higher video bitrate which increases the overall quality of your video images The target file size option is disabled if you lock the video bitrate setting in the Video tab In the middle section Audio you set the format and bitrate of the audio track for your transcoded video MP3 audio using mp3lame at 128 kbps is the default but you can select from FAAC encoded audio PCM wav audio MP2 audio via twolame lavc encoded audio or to just copy the audio track as is from the DVD The bottom section Other stuff allows you to choose if you want to include subtitles with your transcoded video The four buttons at the very bottom left of the screen are static throughout all the tabs The Queue button adds titles from the DVD
92. r co owns with West Australian y Fall hand The Vlade seede mv mr ml Rt Albums Lyrics Wikipedia pr i ce P Fy Playing One Way Road by John Butler Trio on April Uprising 3 05 15 tracks 1 00 03 How about GTKPod Well it was a hit and miss thing with the actual mount location It was pretty much the same with Dolphin Sometimes it s there sometimes it s not wasn t completely happy with the Amarok solution needed to be able to mount my iPhone even partially so could also copy some PDF ebooks to my iPhone folders was having very little success with GTKPod until a knowledgeable PCLinuxOS community member AS posted a forum reply and together we worked on a solution that can trick the Device Notifier into recognizing the iPhone as a storage device 5 Mounting the iPhone on PCLinuxOS Let s start all over again Quit Amarok and any other application using the iPhone and unplug it The following procedure is how we were able to accomplish the task and make PCLinuxOS a much friendlier distro to iPhone users The steps outlined here should also work on other desktop environments although the tools used might be different First let s create a folder where we can mount the iPhone and either mnt or media should be an ideal place For the sake of consistency in this procedure we will use mnt On the Konsole type su followed by your root password then Enter Type mkdir mnt iPhone Enter
93. ranscoded video The default values are shown in the screen shot For what it s worth the pp de setting is a mencoder command that deinterlaces the video before it is recorded to the video file General Video Preview Queue settings Preview a Embed Xstor_ Flickbook wf View Under the Preview tab you can check to see if you have selected the correct title from the DVD Checking the Embed setting causes the selected DVD title to appear embedded in the AcidRip window which is also the default setting If you clear the check box the preview will appear in a separate MPlayer playback window Selecting the View button will also cause the DVD title selection to appear in a separate MPlayer playback window regardless of the selection of any of the check box options found the Flickbook setting to not be very useful On my computer at lest the images flicker by so fast that you can t even tell what they are General Video Preview Queue Settings Queue mencoder dvd 1 dvd device dev dvd al mencoder dvd 1 dvd device dev dvd a junlink divx2pass log 2 gt dev null Video
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95. ree of charge she was more than willing to try it installed PCLinuxOS version 0 92 on her computer and she has used nothing but PCLinuxOS since 22 My mom is not what you d call a power user She knows how to send and receive email download files play music and videos and create documents mostly using Writer eventually taught her basic editing keyboard shortcuts and how to keep her system updated As KDE progressed in features from release to release the computer s resources began struggling to cope After all it was running in 128 MB of RAM and 16 MB of video RAM almost always have spare computer parts but had no SDRAM that would work in this Dell bought a 256 MB stick to put in the empty slot on the motherboard giving the computer 384 MB of RAM About this time Mom changed from dial up Internet to high speed cable put a spare Intel gigabyte ethernet card in an unused PCI slot Now we re talking The difference in access speed to the Internet between dial up and cable modem turned the computer into a speed demon However as my mom s computer skills progressed along with KDE s features the wait times for some intensive programs to load became a bit tedious It was at this time that took Mom s computer and gave her a modern AMD Athlon64 dual core with 4 GB of system RAM For her use this would be more than she would ever need took possession of the Dell Dimension 4100 In order for me not to lose
96. s and bounds in progress to the project libimobiledevice has given us Linux users breakthroughs rather than workarounds and brought iPhone users such as myself much closer to a Linux only solution Until early this year the only way I could sync my music and photo library to my iPhone was via a VirtualBox guest XP and iTunes also have an iPod Classic 160 GiB Black and have no problem with it on Linux The XP virtual machine along with iTunes has been deleted from my computer thus making my laptop 100 PCLinuxOS discovered that in using Amarok my iPhone gets mounted And with a little bit of investigation am able to browse the partial directory structure of the iOS was able to create a symlink to the mount point in an accessible location Thereafter could use GTKPod to add remove music and picture files Amarok would have been an acceptable solution except that sometimes the album covers were not saved on the iPhone If you already have Amarok installed that s good Many of the dependencies needed should already be installed But if you haven t installed GTKPod it would be best that you do so along with all its dependencies Synaptic 3 File Edit Package Settings Help x v Summary Reload Mark ey Apply the following changes All ae k Latest Version This is your last opportunity to look through the list er a wl 0 1pclos20 amarok of marked changes before they are applied 1 0
97. sed is written in a little under two minutes The home partition which only has two gigs of data takes about a minute and 41 seconds The recoverability check proceeds automatically one partition after the other and takes less than a minute to complete both Well worth it in my book The last message the system will send you is about how to get out The important part for now is kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk When everything is done remember to use poweroff reboot or follow the menu to do a normal poweroff reboot procedure Otherwise if the boot media you are using is a wratable device such as a USB flash drive and it s mounted poweroff reboot in abnormal procedure might make it FAIL to boot next time kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Press Enter to continue Yep press ENTER again Don t worry we ll quit before we wear out the ENTER key hopefully A short menu at the bottom of the screen is displayed ocs live general is finished Now you can choose to 0 Poweroff 1 Reboot 2 Enter command line prompt 3 Start over 2 That 2 indicates that Start Over is the default selection Me I m going to select 1 to reboot the system Unmount messages and a rude little chirp from the speaker let me know the system is rebooting When the drive tray pops open on the CD ROM retrieve the disk from the drive shut the tray door and for t
98. t a screenshot of the last two copied The scripts make a complicated task very simple After installation a window shows two steps needed to enable coherency mode This is the same as seamless mode in VirtualBox You can make JanusUAE share the Wanderer desktop with Icaros a a EN ORD The screen has reset but we lost the program launcher bar at the bottom of the screen bottom right previous page We re running an emulator inside an Icaros window so we ll just close the window and start JanusUAE again s JANIS All the drive icons are lined up nicely on the desktop and we have our program launcher bar back again The Setup AmiBridge scripts have set up UAE drives Ram Disk Work and AmigaOS as well as shared AROS drives The bottom active window shows the contents of the AmigaOS WBStartup drawer Any commodities memory resident programs desired go here and are loaded when Workbench starts bottom left The first program button on the left is for AWeb an older web browser Pressing the button we get the AmigaForever documentation by default Trying to open Google s main page resulted in a meditation guru screen You won t see that from AROS This could be a result of running an emulator within an emulator incorrect settings or an incomplete setup between the Icaros host and the JanusUAE client Whoops Time to close JanusUAE and start again 222820 ABSRigne Cr d Running th
99. t here and state Now we need to mount a device as Ihomelpartimag Clonezilla image s repository so that we can read or save the image in Ihomelpartimag IllNotelll You should NOT mount the partition you want to backup as home partimag The partition name is the device name in GNU Linux The first partition in the first disk is hdai or sda1 the 2nd partition in the first disk is hda2 or sda2 the first partition in the second disk is hdb1 or sdb1 If the system you want to save is MS windows normally C is hda1 for PATA or sda1 for PATA SATA or SCSI and D could be hda2 or sda2 hda5 or sda5 sda1 12 9GB ext4 In ST9120822AS ata ST9120822AS 5LZ3NND8 sda6 103GB ext4 In ST9120822AS ata ST9120822AS 5LZ3NND8 sdb1 160GB ntfs In HTS541616J9SA00 usb Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 FFFACFFOFF000000 FB2404FFCFF9Fe 0 0 Here we see in my list sdb1 is my 160GB external drive formatted NTFS so I can use it at work too so I scroll down to sdb1 s freakishly long entry and press ENTER to continue The next screen lists the top level directories on the USB drive and asks which directory is for the Clonezilla image have created a folder on this device called Clonezilla which will select by scrolling down to it and then pressing ENTER to continue Any convenient folder will do even the root Clonezilla creates a folder for the image within whatever folder you select What is next displayed at the bo
100. th connectors are in use by the mouse and keyboard So also added a USB 2 0 PCI card with 5 connectors Two 300 GB USB drives serve as additional storage The last addition is the replacement of the 8X CDROM witha Memorex 48X CDRW The computer still uses the original 200 watt power supply What do I use on this puppy Puppy Linux NO Don t get me started on always running the computer as root user System wide use of sudo is bad enough run PCLinuxOS 2010 Yes it runs on this system with 512 MB of RAM and 256 MB of video RAM And it runs surprisingly well use both LXDE and e17 desktops on it with plenty of GTK and QT4 applications installed In addition run folding home 24 7 on it The swap partition is barely even touched This computer has now become my go to backup desktop That sounds well and good but will the computer run the bling desktops Here is e17 running ecomorph That s not much of a stretch for this hardware aa LM TIGGE Hag CPs MENA Fe Mar Bak 414 st bH a r BEG 134 Lg h n dg CAH ME Le WEE fq 13 Mais ty oy ty As it turns out running compiz is not much of a stretch for this hardware either CPU utilization and system memory usage Is very low Here is compiz running with my LXDE desktop next page zs would never recommend this computer for use by a first time Linux user It would simply not show the full potential of
101. ttom of the screen is a disk usage map so that you have a chance to abort if you don t think you have enough space on the target device Checking the entry for tmp local dev Clonezilla see it has 51 gigabytes free more than enough to house my freshly installed system and it is mounted on home partimag where it belongs press ENTER to continue The next screen will show a choice between Beginner and Expert modes I m willing to admit I m still a beginner here but your mileage may vary if so wish you luck Choosing Beginner press ENTER again to continue Finally a screen for which have a shot appears Clonezilla Select mode xClonezilla is free GPL software and comes with ABSOLUTE NO WARRANTY This software will overwrite the data on your hard drive when restoring It is recommended to backup important files before restoring beek fffHint From now on if multiple choices are available you have to press space key to mark your selection An asterisk x will be shown when the selection is done Select mode savedisk Save local disk as an image saveparts Save local partitions as an image restoreparts recovery iso zip Create recovery Clonezilla liv exit Exit Enter command line prompt Restore an image to local partitions e lt 0k gt lt Cancel gt In this screen we do not want to do a restoredisk as shown we want to do a savedisk This should be the default option for this screen meaning the re
102. ue name to Supported Drivers and in Equals type gphoto Click Save Parameter Changes then OK Close KDE System Settings Let s see how we did so far Plug in your iPhone and Device Notifier should popup with 4 actions Click the USB Imaging Interface to expand the actions and you should be able to see the additional actions Mount or Unmount iPhone COLI FCT Available Devices ia Plave USB Imaging Interface 4 actions for this device lt Download Photos with Gwenview Download Photos with digiKam Open with File Manager a Mount or Unmount iPhone Mounting the iPhone on PCLinuxOS Click the action Mount or Unmount iPhone Nad Y e Edit View Go Tools Settings Help D OG reoad Pe UF IE Preview NewTab 4 Split Q gt ox gt iphone aces ApplicationArchives Downloads EBooks Network lt gt iPhoneVideoRecorder iTunes Control MoreResource PandaSpace Loe Podcasts PublicStaging Recordings Videos com apple itdbprep postprocess lock com apple itunes lock sync 14 Folders 2 Files 0 B Eureka A partial mount of your iPhone s iOS tree structure Actually it is only the contents of Ivarlmobilel Medial on your iPhone I am guessing that this would be the equivalent to nhome lt user gt on PCLinuxOS but that should be enough to get us going GTKPod This fantabulous application is a graphical user interface for Apple s iPods and iPhones for Un
103. us OpenStreetMap where your borders will be When you get the lines to view The NASA programs seem to display really where you want them simply click on Crop If you slow Actually I couldn t get either one to display at change your mind instead you can click on all using e17 in VirtualBox Cancel Y Bae kiblas kg SON ere rere To me blueMarine is kind of hard to use but maybe DN it s just that it wasn t working well for me and I couldn t seem to do what wanted with it It wouldn t work on my home computers at all Honestly think that there is too much extra stuff for just a photo viewer and they should have spent more time on the viewer part to make it work better viewnior This is a very simple easy to use viewer You em Buen prof simply open the photo you want to look at When vo Gnin en you choose View gt Properties you get a pop up gener 7 erep window with a few of the statistics of the photo File Location Name Type Size of the file Width and Height v BREKTNEINEk7 Jpg 37SOI BON Pie Edt Viem race Go Help oc a ogoro AE A ceces SAS LEA ERE SBE TERRE MG Unlike some of the simple viewers we have looked at viewnoir has a crop feature When you choose Crop Image kuikshow It is a viewer which looks a lot like Konqueror When you open it you see a file manager like window GOE Cl nen 6263 you get a smaller where you can open a folder or Top thu
104. ux it s as if they view itas a rite of passage Because they the experienced users had to figure stuff out on their own mostly by reading the manual and other documentation for a program they think EVERY Linux user should have to do the same Such attitudes give Linux the reputation of being for elitists and it s a reputation that Linux needs to shed As Linux grows in popularity and its popularity is on the rise there is no need for these attitudes towards new users There is now enough of a Linux user base that help should not be far away While applaud those who had to endure the lack of Support and the figure it out on your own early days of Linux and survived making it easier for new users to adopt Linux and avoid the rituals of the early days of Linux should be the norm and not the exception After all these days there is a larger Linux user base one that is growing larger every day than in days gone by and it s no longer necessary to force new users to pay their dues just to be able to run Linux Being friendly to and offering to help new users is a great step towards retaining those users They sought out Linux not because they had to but because they wanted to Free vs Paid In many Western cultures there is a commonly held belief that things of value have a higher price attached to them There is a large group of computer users who feel that if Linux had any real valu
105. ver 100 tornadoes have erupted from the thunderstorms that commonly roar across the plains Tornado outbreaks have occurred from Texas to Minnesota and from western Kansas to the Ohio River Valley live in Independence Missouri near the geographical center of the country Assistant Editor Meemaw lives in Southeastern Kansas about three hours south of my location Phornecker lives in Northwest Indiana Georgetoon lives in the Ohio River Valley Texstar ms_meme and Dragynn live in Texas Djohnston lives in Oklahoma Many PCLinuxOS users live near or in areas affected by the recent tornado outbreaks In fact if you live in this area of the United States commonly referred to as tornado alley it s hard to find someone who either doesn t know someone affected by the destruction brought by the tornadoes or who isn t affected directly themselves Personally areas of my wife s home town Sedalia MO have suffered the effects of an EF2 tornado tornados are rated on the Enhanced Fujita Scale from zero for cyclonic wind speeds up to 85 mph to five for cyclonic wind speeds over 200 mph Thankfully all St John n s Hospital Joplin MO Jr and after the EF5 tornado on May 21 2011 The hospital sustained a direct hit by the tornado Photo credit NOAA of her relatives and friends escaped any direct damage or injury On that particular day May 25 there were no fewer than 10 tornado war
106. which the student presented was combined with a deck of control cards for the computer system upon which it was intended to be run and this was sent to the computer Some time later the printout of the run or the printout of the garbage generated by an incorrectly entered program was presented to the student That the Waterloo languages could greatly simplify this process accounts for its popularity in a teaching environment If you desire to learn the details of the Watfiv language along with all the details involved in creating a set of job control cards there is a file which may be downloaded called watfiv tgz which can be easily expanded into a manual for the language in pdf format In addition the file contains two IBM JCL tools and a tape image WATFIV USERS GUIDE CONTENTS i INTRODUCTION 2 ONTROL CARDS i 2 1 WATEIY CONTROL CARDS 2 2 DES CONTROL CARDS J 2 2 1 WATFIV CATALOGUED PROCEDURE 0 ccureu NOT EER FT ee a EA 1 MATFIV OPTIONS nrrerrennrnnnarnarenane 3 1 1 COMPILER CONTROL GPTTONS 3 1 2 PROFILER CONTROL cer pons 3 2 WATFIV CONTROL CARDS 3 2 1 CONTROL CARDS TO EDIT SOURCE LISTINGS 2 2 2 OTHER MATFIV CONTROL CARDS 2 3 STUDENT JOB STREAM ENVIRONMENT 4 USING WATFIV UNDER INTERACTIVE SvSTENS 4 1 USING WATFIV UNDER T20 4 2 USING WATFIV UNDER CMS 4 2 4 OPTIONS 4 2 2 US0NG THE CHS MATETV OOHMAND i USING THE 4 3 1 INTROCUCTTOH 452 4 5 2 HOOTETING AND DISPLAYING VARTABLES 4 5 4 ERPICHE
107. will help you select any special language and keyboard settings you might aan need if English and the default keymap are not San aaa suitable lt Ok gt lt Cancel gt with disks 1C2 1MAge QEV ICE age S or par mages device device work directly from a disk or partition to a disk or partition lt Ok gt lt Cancel gt Mounting the drive to which we will be saving the image is next The restore phase comes later The Language screen generally don t touch the keymap but if you are using a keyboard that requires a special keymap here s your chance to select the right one for your keyboard See the instructions in the menu for more Bn US UTF 8 details Next up actually starting Clonezilla Here s the screen for that Mount Clonezilla image directory Before cloning you have to assign where the Clonezilla image will be saved to or read from We will mount that device or remote resources as home partimag The Clonezilla image will be saved to or read from home partimag Select mode Choose language Which language do you prefer a b hy stole k GEVIGB AE ssh server Use SSH server samba server Use SAMBA server Network Neighborhood server nfs server Use NFS server enter_shell Enter command line prompt Do it manually skip Use existing home partimag Memory NOT RECOMMENDED es_ES UTF 8 Spanish Espafiol fr FR UTF 8 French Francais it IT UTF 8 Italian Italiano ja JP UTF 8
108. you are doing so of your own accord and assume all responsibility and liability for such action Material Submitted by Users A majority of sections in the magazine contain materials submitted by users The PCLinuxOS Magazine accepts no responsibility for the content accuracy conformity to applicable laws of such material Entire Agreement These terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements written or oral regarding such subject matter PO 7 R d x f A yy 7 er PER Pr 3 L ia 7 l E we A 7 i a a v sp a ep MM Co pm X NO sp Ev x von D NOSE el lol Sok Top left Posted by jcolyng May 28 2011 running KDE4 Top right Posted by T6 May 11 2011 running KDE4 Bottom left Posted by djohnston May 7 2011 running LXDE Bottom right Posted by coffeetime May 24 2011 running e17 DeBaas 2011 Mon 13 20 V T Computer Club June Tue 14 21 28 Wed 15 22 29 Thu 16 23 30 The Hague Sat 11 18 25

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