Here’s a tutorial on how to create glassy effects on images and text, using GIMP.
Tips & Tricks
make My Day!
The ‘make’ utility is one of the cleverest tools in the world of open source. It can be used in a variety of situations that are not just limited to programming. This article explores a little-known feature of ‘make’.
Flirt with Perl
Five rules you should follow.
How to Detect Integer Overflow
[The Joy of Programming] Integer overflows often result in nasty bugs. In this column, we’ll look at some techniques to detect an overflow before it occurs.
Crazy Commands
Let’s have some fun with commands.
Stop Wasting CDs; Install Linux Straight from an ISO
You download the brand new distro, and discover you don’t have a single blank DVD/CD to burn the ISO image! Why worry, when there’s a simple way out!
Distromania: A Multi-booting Template
With so many Linux distributions around, each with its own flavour, it would be a waste not to sample them from time to time. Here is a simple multi-boot template for your PC for an arbitrary number of distributions controlled by two levels of boot menus.
Improve Multi-OS Computer Performance through Cross Swapping
Computers with more than one hard disk and more than one operating system (OS) can be set up to provide better performance than what OS installations generally default to. This technique, called cross swapping by the author, is described using a dual-boot scenario of Linux and Microsoft Windows.
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