
February 4th, 2008 by

Baldy
No it’s not a Hungarian curse, it is a command line screen capture program. In my travels I saw it mentioned and poof a light went off in my empty melon. I had used it before but it was years ago and I had like a lot of folks forgotten about it and how handy it was to use. I won’t go into all the options but needless it say it has more options than the average user will ever need. Myself I love the -t which also makes a thumbnail for the screenshot that you just took. A very handy tool for those that need thumbnails for posting. Take a look in your linux repos to download the little rascal you will be surprised how often you will end up using it. Baldy
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February 4th, 2008 by

Baldy
If you cannot face the thought of hunting down and re-installing all of your Firefox extensions one by one on a second computer, you need, appropriately, an extension to simplify the task. CLEO, the Compact Library Extension Organizer, can package all your extensions and themes into one installable .xpi file.
Here is one that really sounds good but once again does it work? Baldy
Package all your Firefox extensions for quick installs with CLEO
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February 4th, 2008 by

Baldy
Kurt Pfeifle and Simon Peter are the authors of Klik, a distro-neutral complement to the existing package managers where 1 app = 1 file which includes all dependencies in that file (!) and where you can install and run software with one ‘Klik’ from your browser using their online package-repository . Deleting an app is as simple as deleting its file, and (IIRC) root privileges are not needed to install new apps. At the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2008 – to be held in Bruxelles, BE the 23/24th of February, they will talk about the advantages of Klik, and the architecture of the upcoming Klik2. In this interview they talk Linux package management, Klik’s future and their presence at FOSDEM.
[ Klik "version 1" already worked very well, it enabled me to use a CLI-program for which Gentoo didn't have a package and which I couldn't compile manually before some reason. It's by far the single best thing for Linux package management I saw since I use open source software, especially since it solves the dependency problem for one and all and my mother and grandmother could use it - hkwint ]
Hum, a universal package manager, but one that really works now this is news.
Kurt Pfeifle and Simon Peter about Klik2: The future of easy Linux Package management
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