"Forecast for tonight: Dark. Continuing dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning."
You can turn your Linux machine into an automated masterpiece by wrapping a GUI around cron. The Ubuntu Geek weblog introduces Gnome Schedule which cuts the command-line out of the equation when setting up cron jobs. Gnome Schedule gives Linux users all of the functionality of Windows Task Scheduler and more. Regardless of the recurring task you want to complete, Gnome Schedule can get the job done
Take a look HERE.
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System services are one aspect of Linux (and Ubuntu specifically) that baffle new switchers. Similar to "processes" in Windows, system services can be difficult to track. The Ubuntu Geek weblog introduces Monit, a utility that provides an easy to use interface to monitor, start, stop, and restart all services currently running.
Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
Take a look HERE.
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Intermediate GIMP image editing tutorial
Cross platform, open source image editor GIMP is a powerful alternative to Photoshop that has many useful features waiting to be unlocked. Some of GIMP's intermediate features are demonstrated in this short video tutorial by the VnTutor weblog. The demonstration includes: working with gray scale, adjusting brightness and contrast, adding noise, and working with layers (which can be very difficult for novice GIMPers to understand). The video above is just 1 of 10 GIMP video lessons if you're itchin' for more intermediate tutorials.
10 GIMP Video Lessons online HERE.
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Gnome desktop video lessons online HERE.
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