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Make your own slackware packages! A slackware package can contain whatever you want it to contain. All you need to do is build your install/* and var/log/setup scripts to do what you need. If you want to distribute source as a slackpack, then do so and write your doinst.sh, setup.*, etc. to do what you need them to do (configure, compile, install, make clean, etc.). Theoretically, you could even create a slackpack that just contains scripts to connect to some server somewhere, download the files it needs, compile them (if necessary), install them, and then clean up after itself. A Slackware package is NOT limited to precompiled binaries. The point I was making in my previous post was that the claim that the wine package went from 7MB to 11KB was bogus, either because ratbert90 misread the filesize or didn't put everything in the tarball.

The compressed wine binary itself is larger than ratbert90's purported size of the entire wine slackpack. Kobo – Unboxed & Linux Friendly | Dawning.ca. I’ve recently acquired myself a Kobo eReader. Read on to learn of my initial experiences, thoughts and reactions.. For those who remain unaware of what an ereader is… They are little device designed to replace physical books. The key to success of the major ereaders (of which the ipad is NOT included) is the use of a completely distinct display technology called E-Ink.

The important detail about that is that things displayed on E-Ink look just as though they were printed on paper. Compare this to viewing a typical LCD screen (like that of your phone) in the bright sun. The LCD has to overcome the ambient light, which is really tough in the day. Deciding against the Kindle and Nook In the moments since I got my Kobo the eReader world has changed. So I suspect even with the new pricing, the Kobo is still worthy of MAJOR consideration. Acquiring the Kobo Right now the Kobo is an ultra-hot item in my area.. Go here for some unboxing photos. Regarding Linux Here’s the steps I followed: 1.

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Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage. Mechanical Engineering Useful Software in Linux. So, as usual, I've no wrote in this space for a long time, but today, as my daughter sleeps like a baby (10 months :P), I've got the time for some writings.. So since my last post, I've acquired a new 13" laptop to replace the good old asus eee 701, I needed a small, fast and good pc for some of my engineering work. Just in short lines the PC is an Acer Travelmate 8371, and Linux Mint Debian Edition runs very smooth.... only one thing does not work at all, and that is the fingerprint reader, which I don't care at all..

One of the most important things for me in laptops is battery (6 hours) and suspend (all ACPI events works out of the box. Even the intel wireless card work without problems...So I'm very pleased with this little and robust machine... So, back on the post title.... 3 - On number 3 we have a non native Linux software, but as they support Linux through wine (and I've bought a license, cough, cough) . . . . - Crunchbang - a less powerful calculator the qalculate. Ubuntu Tip:Howto reduce PDF file size from command line  Python Programming Language – Official Website.

Inter-Process Communications. Inter-Process Communications Caveat: The material in this topic uses the os.fork() function which is not available under Microsoft Windows. (One reason is that Windows, compared to Unix, is very slow to create new processes so that in practice you would never use fork() even if you could! There is another solution to this problem - threading - that works on both Unix and Windows which we will cover in a later topic.) If you are using Windows I recommend that you read the concept sections at the top because the principles will be used in the next topic. But there is no point in typing in the examples as they will not work. What does inter-process communication mean? As the name suggests Inter-Process communications or IPC, is the mechanism whereby one process can communicate, that is, exchange data, with another process.

Do I really care? Is this the same as Client/Server? So Client/Server computing always uses IPC but IPC is not always client/server based. What is a pipe? Spawning processes. Building a basic GUI application in Python with Tkinter and wxWidgets. In this page you will learn to build a basic GUI application in Python step by step. The aim is: Mastering most common GUI techniques (widgets layout, GUI constraints, event binding, etc.)Understanding each and every single method and parameter used here.See two different major GUI toolkit and learn their differences.Serve as a basis for building your own GUI applications. You will learn basic tips:building a GUI application class,creating widgets,laying them in containers,attaching and handling events,manipulating widgets values,etc.

Our constraints for this document:Do the same thing with Tkinter (the standard GUI toolkit provided with Python) and wxPython (an advanced, portable, popular GUI toolkit).Program it the right wayUse plain englishExplicit is better than implicit ;-)Tkinter wraps Tcl/tk so that it can be used it in Python. wxPython wraps wxWidgets so that it can be used it in Python. We will refer to one of the other in this document. Table of contents Our project Let's start ! SynapticsTouchpad. Translation(s): English - Français - Italiano Introduction This document is applicable to squeeze, wheezy, jessie and stretch.

Determining the type of Touchpad The following command will tell you whether you have a Synaptics, ALPS or Elantech touchpad: egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan' /proc/bus/input/devices (Elantech support was enabled in Linux kernel 2.6.32-4.) Desktop configuration Some desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE can allow you to adjust settings of your touchpad through a graphical system settings panel. If you can't find a Touchpad or Synaptics tab in your system settings, or the settings you wish to change cannot be changed through the GUI, follow the instructions below to configure system-wide via /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/synaptics.conf. Debian 9 "Stretch" In most cases, make sure you have xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse installed, and not the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package.

Debian 7 "Wheezy" On KDE: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" or. Syntax Versus Semantics: Convert multiple JPG files into a single PDF on Linux (Ubuntu) Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. Using Variables on a sed Expression.

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7.8. Using MEncoder to create VCD/SVCD/DVD-compliant files. 7.8.1. Format Constraints MEncoder is capable of creating VCD, SCVD and DVD format MPEG files using the libavcodec library. These files can then be used in conjunction with vcdimager or dvdauthor to create discs that will play on a standard set-top player. The DVD, SVCD, and VCD formats are subject to heavy constraints. Only a small selection of encoded picture sizes and aspect ratios are available. If your movie does not already meet these requirements, you may have to scale, crop or add black borders to the picture to make it compliant. 7.8.1.1.

If your movie has 2.35:1 aspect (most recent action movies), you will have to add black borders or crop the movie down to 16:9 to make a DVD or VCD. 7.8.1.2. DVD, VCD, and SVCD also constrain you to relatively low GOP (Group of Pictures) sizes. 7.8.1.3. VCD video is required to be CBR at 1152 kbps. MEncoder has options to control the output format. The options for VCD and SVCD are called xvcd and xsvcd, because they are extended formats. 7.8.3. Daniel Davis - Watching videos on the Wii. 7.8. Using MEncoder to create VCD/SVCD/DVD-compliant files. 7.8.1. Format Constraints MEncoder is capable of creating VCD, SCVD and DVD format MPEG files using the libavcodec library.

These files can then be used in conjunction with vcdimager or dvdauthor to create discs that will play on a standard set-top player. The DVD, SVCD, and VCD formats are subject to heavy constraints. Only a small selection of encoded picture sizes and aspect ratios are available. If your movie does not already meet these requirements, you may have to scale, crop or add black borders to the picture to make it compliant. 7.8.1.1. If your movie has 2.35:1 aspect (most recent action movies), you will have to add black borders or crop the movie down to 16:9 to make a DVD or VCD. 7.8.1.2. DVD, VCD, and SVCD also constrain you to relatively low GOP (Group of Pictures) sizes. 7.8.1.3. VCD video is required to be CBR at 1152 kbps. MEncoder has options to control the output format. The options for VCD and SVCD are called xvcd and xsvcd, because they are extended formats. 7.8.3.