Making the Switch

To burn the VOB file from dvd-slideshow to DVD (to be playable in a stand-alone DVD player) I used DeVeDe to create the iso file (it’s easy to use that I won’t explain it) and wrote the iso to the ...

So far so good.? I’ve been going through the Ruby Quiz archives trying - directed tasks are helpful and the ability to see how others, who really grok Ruby, solved the problem is great.
With the ba...

After spending a few days looking at the pros and cons I have decided that Ruby will be my choice for now.? There were a lot of factors in the choice but ultimately it came down to a few less-than-...

After last time I ended up using dir2slideshow to create the basic script.? It worked well except that the documented “-k” command line parameter was missing so I had to put off trying the Ken Burn...

Now that I’ve knocked some of the early learning and the practical tasks off the list it is time to start taking on a more sizable project.
I already have something in mind that would be immediatel...

For an upcoming family event my wife scanned several hundred photos with the intent of creating a DVD slideshow to show at a gathering.? Since I haven’t figured out the scanner problem yet she scan...

After a few weeks of ignoring the issue I decided to try and get desktop effects working. When I would try to use desktop effects my screen would go blank (solid white). In fact I could not adjust ...

I was building gcc and ran into this error:
../.././libgcc/../libdecnumber/decContext.h:52:50: error: gstdint.h: No such file or directory
I was pretty sure I had followed the directions correctly....

gprof displays profile data for an object file. To use gprof I first needed to add “-g -pg” to my g++ options - i.e.
$ g++ -g -pg main.cpp
Then I simply needed to run the output executable (./a.out...

“more” displays the named file(s) one screenful at a time. Simple enough and quite useful - but it’s got a few handy little features I was unaware of prior to getting to more in Linux in a Nutshell...