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Simple Image Editing in OpenSuSE: GraphicsMagick

March 1, 2010 – 8:38 pm

Personal multimedia content such as images and videos seem to be taking up most of our disk space and hence the ever increasing amount of Gigabytes and soon to be Terabytes on our desktop.  Having OpenSuSE as your main desktop environment would also mean that in addition to having Office Productivity, Instant Messaging and Web [...]

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Installing HP LaserJet 1020 Printer for OpenSuSE

July 20, 2009 – 8:41 pm

Printers such as the HP LaserJet 1020 (1000, 1005, 1018, 1022 inclusive) are usually detected by the various Linux distribution.  However, there seem to have little success in ensuring that the printer drivers installed works.

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Taking screenshots in SuSE

April 19, 2009 – 10:51 pm

SuSE Enterprise Linux Server comes with this simple yet effective tool to assist you to take screenshots.  This is basically the same as using the “Print Screen” button and it can also be used to take a shot of the windows only, like using “Alt-Print Screen”.

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Short and quick tutorial for the command “tar”

April 16, 2009 – 3:00 am

We have recently posted about tarball and the use of tar coupled with compression programs to create it.  Here, we will go through three (3) short tutorial on using tar.
To compress a list of files
To compress (the c in the options) a list of files into a specific file (the f in the options) whilst [...]

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What are .Z, .gz and .bz2 files?

April 15, 2009 – 12:04 am

As part of a tarball distribution and also other compressed files, you will come across files with the .Z, .gz and .bz2 extensions.  These are basically files that have been compressed using different applications, much like the .zip files predominantly found in the Windows environment.

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