Archive for the ‘Free Software’ Category
I Love Free Software
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, News, Planet PSL-AM on February 25th, 2010
Visit the Campaign WebSite: http://fsfe.org/campaigns/valentine-2010/valentine-2010.html
I saw this at Daniel Bruno’s blog.
Bossa Conference ‘10 – Call for presentations
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM on December 16th, 2009
‘As always, the Bossa’10 conference changes paradigms and moves its structure to Manaus – Amazonia. Looking for a new atmosphere the Organization committee found the perfect place for next years conference. So, wait for the new website in December’09 and be part of this new ERA of Bossa Conference. BOSSA’10 – The Bossa in the Jungle!’
The Call for presentation is Officially Opened! So, if you want to share with us your knowledge, feel free to submit your presentation. The period for submissions is from September, 1st to January, 1st, but as soon you send your submission, more chances you’ll have.
To submit a presentation, all you have to do is send an e-mail to cfp AT bossaconference DOT org with the following informations:
Name:
Nickname (handle):
Email:
City:
Country:
Presentation Title:
Abstract ([200,500] words):
Keywords:
Attachments (paper, presentation, pictures, videos, docs, links, …) or Links:
Need sponsorship ?!
Reasons for sponsorship:
For mor information, see the Bossa Conference Homepage: http://bossaconference.indt.org/
We are waiting for you!
Creating Web Albums with gThumb
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, Linux, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM, Tutorial, Web on December 4th, 2009
If you want to create a web album with some images you have in your computer, with Linux as your OS, i recommend you to use gThumb.
gThumb is, as said in WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GThumb):
… an open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface.
gThumb Homepage: http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/
INSTALLING GTHUMB:
I’m using Ubuntu 9.04, named Jaunty Jackalope, to write this tutorial, so the installation process is very simple, all you have to do is run:
1 | # aptitude install gthumb |
This should work the same way for Debian GNU/Linux, but if you’re using another distro Linux, you might have to compile gThumb.
CREATING WEB ALBUM:
When you run gThumb you’ll see this interface:
I mapped it to make it easier to follow:
The steps to create the Web Album are:
1 – Create directory to keep the images:
First create a directory and put the images you’d like to be in the album in it.
2 – Open directory with gThumb:
In gThumb interface, select the directory in which the images are (#1 in MAP)
3 – Select the images you’d like to show in the album:
After opening the directory, which contains the images, you’ll have to select the images you’d like to show in the album (#2 in MAP)
4 – Open the “Create Web Album” window and configure it:
Now, with all images selected, go to Tools > Create Web Album (#3 in MAP)
Then you should see a window like this:
This is where you’ll configure your web album. The options are:
#1 – Where the web album files will be saved.
#2 – The name of the page, i recommend you to leave it as it is.
#3 – How many images per line and per column will be shown.
#4 – The title of the page, or header message, if you preffer.
#5 – The footer message of the page.
#6 – The theme that will be used in the web album.
The other options are not so important for me, so i didn’t put them in here.
In the end, you’ll have something like this: http://am.softwarelivre.org/galeria/fedora12releaseparty/
:wq
Highlighting “@all” in XChat2
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, Linux, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM on November 9th, 2009
For some time i tried to highlight the “@all” string in XChat2[0], an IRC client, but when the XChat2 highlight feature reads the “all” word, it highlights all messages, in all channels.
Fortunately, i found a python script that highlights defined strings, and it works great for me. The script name is hilight-phrase, you can find it at ctrl+d blog[1].
[0] http://xchat.org/
[1] http://www.control-d.com/?p=81
:wq
GooSH.org, my new start page
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, Linux, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM, Web on September 25th, 2009
A friend sent me a link to a webpage, the link was: http://goosh.org. Right after accessing the webpage i decided: “This is going to be my new start page”.
GooSH stands for Google Shell, it is an unofficial Google Product. Written by Stefan Grothkopp, it simulates a Unix Shell with access to some Google Products, simply fantastic!
I recommend it for everyone!
Downloading files from Rapidshare through shell
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, Linux, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM, Tutorial on September 25th, 2009
I’ve seen, at Viva o Linux (http://www.vivaolinux.com.br, in portuguese), a post talking about a ShellScript that downloads files from RapidShare through shell. As, sometimes, i download files from that site, i decided to try it out and it worked fine for me.
This script uses wget to download the first html page, then it gets the link to the page that contains the link to the file, download this second page, checks the timer and waits for it to finish, after it finishes, the script starts the file download. I noticed that, if the download stops, this script continues from where it stopped.
This is how it goes:
1 – Download the ShellScript:
1 | $ wget http://tokland.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rapidshare/rapidshare-dl.sh |
2 – Set execution permission:
1 | $ chmod +x rapidshare-dl.sh |
3 – Download File:
There are two ways you can do this:
Passing the link as an argument:
1 | $ ./rapidshare-dl.sh http://link.to.rapidshare |
You can also add more than one link:
1 | $ ./rapidshare-dl.sh http://link.to.rapidshare http://another.link.to.rapidshare |
Passing a text file as an argument:
Create a text file, named links.txt for example, and put each link in a different line, like:
1 2 3 | http://link1.to.rapidshare http://link2.to.rapidshare http://link3.to.rapidshare |
Then you run the script with the text file name as an argument:
1 | $ ./rapidshare-dl.sh links.txt |
You can create a link to the script in, or copy it to, the /usr/bin directory, making it executable from everywhere:
1 | # ln -s $PATH_TO_SCRIPT/rapidshare-dl.sh /usr/bin/rapidshare-dl |
1 | # cp rapidshare-dl.sh /usr/bin/rapidshare-dl |
NOTE: This script works only in Unix-like systems.
There is also plowshare, which is another shellscript that does the same thing, and more, but i haven’t tested it yet. In the project page it says that it supports Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, 4Shared, ZShare, Badongo, DepositFiles and Mediafire, and it also uploads files to those share sites.
PlowShare Page: http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/
Software Freedom Day 2009 – Amazonas
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, Linux, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM on September 16th, 2009
Software Freedom Day
O Software Freedom Day é uma celebração mundial de Software Livre e de Código Aberto (FOSS – Free and Open Source Software). O objetivo desta celebração é educar o publico mundial sobre todos os benefícios de se utilizar Softwares Livres e de Código Aberto de alta qualidade na educação, no governo, em casa e nos negócios — em resumo, em todo lugar! A organização sem fins lucrativos Software Freedom International coordena o Software Freedom Day a nível global, dando suporte, brindes e um ponto de colaboração, mas times voluntários em todo o mundo organizam os eventos locais para impactar as suas próprias comunidades.
PSL-AM
Em Manaus, o evento será realizado para divulgar a criação do PSL-AM, Projeto Software Livre – Amazonas, que irá, através de palestras em várias universidades, simultaneamente, divulgar o Software Livre e Open Source e explicar mais sobre esse mundo Livre e onde o PSL se encaixa neste assunto.
Away++ XChat2 Plugin
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Free Software, News, Planet PSL-AM on September 3rd, 2009
I’ve created a page named Development, where i’ll put some tools, scripts and softwares made by me, or in which i had a hand on.
To start that page, i put a plugin for XChat2, named Away++. It changes your nick to an away-nick when you set your status to away and changes your nick back and identifies it when you set your status to back.
:wq
Windows 7 Sins : FSF campaign against Microsoft and proprietary software
Posted by Éverton Arruda in Etc, Free Software, Linux, News, Planet INdT, Planet PSL-AM on August 27th, 2009
Windows 7 Sins
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The campaign outlines seven major areas where proprietary software in general and Microsoft Windows in particular hurt all computer users: invading privacy, poisoning education, locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behavior, enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and threatening user security.
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Source: http://www.fsf.org/news/windows-7-sins
I recommend the site for everyone to be informed and get involved.
Campaign website: http://windows7sins.org
