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Making animated movie/screenshots of your Ubuntu Desktop

March 6th, 2007 by Baldy

 

In this article i describe how to record your Desktop and make animated screen casts(movie) of your desktop using Five different tools pyvnc2swf,xvidcap,Desktop Recorder , Wink , and patched vesion of FFmpeg . As well as how to install these tools on Ubuntu 6.10 edgy desktop and make screencasts with these tools

 

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Linux: Finding/locating files with find command part # 1

March 6th, 2007 by LinuxChick

Many newcomers find it difficult when then wish to locate files suing command line/shell prompt under Linux/FreeBSD or Solairs OS. However, all of these OSes comes with find utility. Find is nifty tool on remote server where UNIX admin can find out lot of information too. Dekstop users may find handy GNOME Search tool as a utility for finding files on your system. It can perform a search based on a variety of search constraints.

Basic syntax of find command:
find {search-path} {file-names-to-search} {action-to-take}

Where,
find : Name of the command
search-path : Where to search for files. For example search in /home directory.
file-names-to-search : Name of file you wish to find. For example all c files (*.c)
action-to-take : Action can be print file name, delete files etc.
Please note that if you omit the {action-to-take}, then default action is print file names.

Find command examples that will save your life:

(A) Finding files and printing their full name:
You wish to find out all *.c (all c soruce code files) files
$ find /home -name “*.c”

You would like to find httpd.conf file location:
$ find / -name httpd.conf

(B) Finding all files owned by a user:
Find out all files owned by user vivek:
# find / -user vivek

Find out all *.sh owned by user vivek:
# find / -user vivek -name “*.sh”

(C) Finding files according to date and time
Files not accessed in a time period – It is useful to find out files that have or have not been accessed within a specified number of days. Following command prints all files not accessed in the last 7 days:
# find /home -atime +7

-atime +7: All files that were last accessed more than 7 days ago
-atime 7: All files that were last accessed exactly 7 days ago
-atime -7: All files that were last accessed less than7 days ago

Finding files modified within a specified time – Display list of all files in /home directory that were not last modified less than then days ago.

# find /home -mtime -7

Finding newer (more recently) modified files – For example few days back you modifed the files in apache web server directory /etc/apache-perl and now you don’t remember the which one was the more recently modified files in this directory, then you can use the command as follows:
find /etc/apache-perl -newer /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf

Finding the most recent version of file – It is common practice before modifying the file is copied to somewhere in system. For example whenever I modify web server httpd.conf file I first backup it up into /backup.conf directory. Now I don’t remember whether I had modified the /backup.conf/httpd.conf or /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf. Then I can use the find command as follows (tip you can also use ls -l command):
find / -name httpd.conf -newer /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf

Source: cyberciti

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New services broaden VoIP market

March 6th, 2007 by LinuxChick

Skype is a great PC-based VoIP service but there are a number of other players out there with good features and lower prices

When it comes to voice over Internet Protocol phone calling, or VoIP, many people will have heard of one of the main independent players — Vonage — thanks to their incessant TV ads. Many will also have heard of the PC-based alternative Skype, if only because eBay bought the company for $2.6-billion (U.S.) dollars last year from the founders of the Kazaa file-swapping network.

Source: Globe and Mail

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