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Linux Toys II: 9 Cool New Projects for Home, Office, and by Christopher Negus

By Christopher Negus

Chris Negus is a wonderful author and probably the most an expert Linux humans to be discovered. He wrote "Linux Toys" in 2003 and he's the 1st to confess that it truly is now thoroughly superseded. "Linux Toys II" used to be released in 2005 and in just 4 years, it really is displaying its age. A testomony to the quickly evolving Linux and electronics worlds to ensure, yet anything of a sadness to an individual hoping to extend their wisdom of Linux during the construction of sensible tasks.

The tasks did not require any nice smarts firstly: the entire software program wanted was once supplied at the DV certain with the publication.

extra was once required for a few of the initiatives and it's a friendly shock to how the costs of parts have declined. for instance, "Creating a private Video Recorder with fantasy television" used to be projected to price $943. this present day with a way more strong CPU and larger difficult drives, the venture may fee considerably much less. however the truth is that MythTV is a much much less attractive undertaking at the present time than it used to be the day prior to this simply because DVRs became so ordinary. additionally, the MythTV software program has replaced considerably.

The "Customizing A stay Linux Pen force" venture used to be kind of appropriate in 2005. at the present time, instructions for doing this undertaking are far and wide and the method itself has turn into simplified as extra publishers have tailored their software program to flash drive.

different tasks reminiscent of establishing an online Radio Station and controlling X10 units may have little entice so much people.

Like I acknowledged, Chris Negus is a superb author, so there's something that may be realized from this ebook at the moment - yet there's not anything right here that can not be present in different books or on the net. i purchased a used reproduction for a number of funds on Amazon, so i do not suppose like i have wasted cash. nonetheless, having breezed during the e-book as soon as, i do not believe i will be examining it again.

Jerry

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The package contains extraordinary flexibility in configuring how the main gallery, the albums in that gallery, and the photographs themselves are displayed and managed. ˛ Administering Gallery To set up and control Gallery, you need to have an administrative (admin) user assigned to your personal gallery. That user has total control over the functioning of your Gallery server. A Web-based configuration wizard lets the admin user check that all the components needed by Gallery from the operating system are available.

Some specific issues for choosing an entertainment system PC are included in the MythTV PVR project (see Chapter 4). Here are a few of the highlights: Ⅲ Quiet — You don’t want a fan that makes a lot of noise. Spend a few extra dollars and get one that is particularly quiet. Ⅲ Elegant case — You don’t want to put a standard desktop case on your stereo system. com). The dimensions are similar to a common stereo component (424 mm wide by 96 mm high by 430 mm deep). Using a Micro ATX motherboard allows the case to be smaller than you would need for a standard ATX motherboard, and still have room for the video cards, hard disks, and other components you need.

For the projects in this book, you are most interested in extracting files from a project’s tarball directory, and then possibly compiling and installing the software to use on a Linux system. If you are using a Linux distribution other than Fedora or RHEL, installing from the tarballs included with this book’s CD is probably the best way to go. Tarballs are the most common way for a project to distribute the source code for open source projects for several reasons. For one thing, you can put all the files in an entire project into one file (making it easy to pass around).

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