Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
Create a logo from command line
Posted by: manoj1987 on: November 12, 2009
Here is a simple tip to create a logo from Linux terminal.
This tip has been contibuted by Mr.Girish to iLugc mailing list.
Here we go now!
$ convert -size 800×120 xc:white -font Times-Roman -pointsize 100 -fill gray -annotate +20+80 ‘Linux is cool’ -fill black -annotate +23+83 ‘Linux is cool’ -trim +repage logo.png
Mavizen TTX02 : The Linux motorcycle
Posted by: manoj1987 on: November 10, 2009
TTX02 is the world’s first production electric supersport bike. So what is so special about it? Well,the heart of this 130mph racing machine is a Linux system.
Other features include :
First motorsport vehicle in the world to ship with integrated IP connectivity
Core operating system is open source Linux
USB based system bus allows virtually unlimited [...]
figlet
Posted by: manoj1987 on: September 24, 2009
How do you draw a cat?
Take a pencil and draw on a paper.
How do you draw a chair?
You pull it and sit down.
Similarly you draw ASCII art with figlet. But only
ASCII characters, not arbitrary lines and drawings.
$ figlet hello
My gmail interface has goofed it up. But it comes beautifully in a terminal.
Usually there will be [...]
xrandr
Posted by: manoj1987 on: September 24, 2009
We are going too look at a pretty useful command in Linux/Unix: xrandr
The xrandr command, which is expanded as Xrandr – X Resize, Rotate and Reflection , is useful in the following ways :
Specifies the connection to the X server.
Specifies which screen.
Specifies the screen.
Specifies the rotations or reflections possible of the screen.
Specifies the current rotations [...]
Linux in Movies
Posted by: manoj1987 on: September 21, 2009
In <this> article , the blogger/author shows instances of where OpenSource tricks have been displayed on big screen. From Fair Game (1995) to Antitrust(2001) many movies showed us a bite of Open Source technologies. Well this may be a good strategy to popularise Open source !
Other Open source related articles:
Kerala embraces FOSS while Maharashtra [...]
