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Wine 1.0 is out

19 June 2008 – 9:00 in GNU/Linux, OpenSource, Software — No Comments

After 15 years of hard work, The Wine team is giving us the first non beta release of the famous project. This version is numbered 1.0 and will make Wine definitivly quit the Beta world, so loved by Web2.0 applications…
It’s been awaited for so long, but even though it’s been used by many people to [...]

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Shell script, how-to make them look better

16 May 2008 – 8:00 in GNU/Linux, Information Technologies — No Comments

When you program a shell script, it’s always usefull to have some message reporting immediatly such as OK or Error. So here is a little how-to get color in your shell scripts.
In order to do so, you just have to use ASCII characters within your command-line. This will make them more eye appealing.
The syntax is [...]

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Rotate a video under Linux

8 May 2008 – 10:00 in Design, GNU/Linux, Photography — One Comment so far

These days we are filming a lot our two daughters, in fact the youngest is now walking and we decided to collect as much videos for family as we can because we will move to Canada before the end of this year. Problem is, videos are taken using a Digital camera (Nikon E5200) and most [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04, mon test

5 May 2008 – 10:04 in GNU/Linux — 5 Comments so far

Et voila, ce week-end ayant l’occasion d’acheter mon nouveau portable (Acer Aspire 5715-4713), j’ai décidé de passer directement à la nouvelle Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (n’ayant aucune données à perdre, je n’avais rien à craindre).
Première étape, cette fois-ci je n’ai pas opté pour l’installation directement, mais plutot par un démarrage sur le LiveCD puis installation si [...]

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Manage your Photo collection under Linux

28 April 2008 – 9:30 in GNU/Linux, Information Technologies, Photography — One Comment so far

As an Amateur photographer, and being a GNU/Linux user, I need a great piece of software to manage my photo collection with over 13589 shots. That’s where those two applications comes in handy : F-Spot(gnome) & Digikam(kde).
I’m not a big fan of F-Spot, sadly for me, as it’s Gnome’s integrated photo management app. I’m a [...]

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