In my recent article on QDVDAuthor, I skipped over the task of making a videoloop for the main DVD menu. Here I’m going to show you how I did it. The goal is a short loop of video that smoothly transitions through five different video segments and back to the beginning again.
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FOSDEM Diary - 2010
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FOSDEM - a geek trip to Brussels. Going abroad to experience different cultures. Or at least, a chance to eat chips, suffer rain, and watch American TV in a different country.
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PC-BSD’s graphical firewall manager
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The firewall application on PC-BSD is OpenBSD’s Packet Filter. It is a very powerful firewall application with many advanced features and functionalities. This post takes a look at the graphical firewall manager.
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Five nice and useful plugins for Gimp
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One of the big advantages of The GIMP is the fact that it can be easily extended with new functionality. So with sufficient addons (particularly plugins), you can achieve a lot of functionality found in other editors.
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Ubuntu One Music Store Pushed In Rhythmbox
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One of the features that was talked about and proposed a few months back was a music store for Ubuntu. Plans were laid out for an Ubuntu One Music Store and the first packages to support this in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are now available.
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Chrome OS vs Ubuntu Netbook Remix
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Although Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu, Google has no intention right now of targeting the mass market. Instead, Chrome OS will be certified to run on specific hardware, which at the very least will need either an x86 or ARM CPU and a solid-state drive (SSD) for storage. Most SSDs are faster than hard drives, which enables Google to squeeze the boot time as low as possible.
Read more »Metasploit Gains Further Commercial Adoption
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The open source Metasploit framework is often the place where security vulnerabilities become usable enabling security researchers to test out exploits and fix flaws. Until recently, Metasploit was typically used only as a standalone community project, but that's no longer the case.
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Comparing Browsers on Linux
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Recently I decided to make a screencast comparing some of the more popular browsers that are currently available for Linux: Firefox, Epiphany, Konqueror, Opera, and Google-Chrome. Included is the screencast posted with the new HTML 5 video tag, a video download option, and for those that prefer reading, a short synopsis of the scenario.
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Lantronix Launches Global XPort Pro Design Contest
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Lantronix will award prizes of $6,000 and $3,000 to the two top entries for Best Linux Design, and a separate prize of $3,000 for the Best Student Linux Design.
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openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Has Linux Kernel 2.6.33 and KDE SC 4.4
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The openSUSE development team, through Henne Vogelsang, announced last evening (February 17th) the immediate availability for testing of the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 operating system.
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How to Protect Linux Users from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) with Workrave
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Workrave is a Free Software that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
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Using QEMU for cross-platform development
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One of Linux's strengths is its cross-platform nature: you can run it on x86, x86-64, SPARC, PowerPC, and many other central processing units (CPUs). This wealth of hardware choices poses a challenge for software developers, though. Ensuring that software compiles, and runs correctly, on all platforms can be difficult. The use of the QEMU package can help ease this burden.
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PHP Developers Prefer Using Windows to Build Enterprise Apps: Study
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The open source PHP dynamic language is one of the most widely deployed languages on Web servers today. But what operating systems are PHP developers using to develop and deploy their applications? It's a question that has been asked before and now it's being answered with a new study from Zend, one of the lead commercial backers behind PHP.
Read more »Linux is Not Window
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The specific reasons why people try Linux vary wildly, but the overall reason boils down to one thing: They hope Linux will be better than Windows. Common yardsticks for measuring success are cost, choice, performance, and security. There are many others. But every Windows user who tries Linux, does so because they hope it will be better than what they've got. Therein lies the problem.
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Linux needs its eyes wide open
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For Linux to continue to grow, its eyes need to be firmly open, and any hint of blinkers put away, argues Simon Brew…
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