I stumbled upon this invaluable gem: http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/how_to_linux_and_open_source.htm It is a page of over 200 tips and tricks for all sorts of *nix and opensource goodies, like this: TIP 70: Generating Random Numbers. $ od -vAn -N4 -tu4 < /dev/urandom 3905158199 This guide is full of stuff that you may only do occasionally but you can [...]
On FC5 (don’t have FC6 yet), if you don’t have the rpm for “koffice-filters” installed, you won’t be able to open up anything except native Krita files. I believe that these filters are packaged separately because they are maintained separately from Krita, since they are used by other KOffice applications. Makes sense if you think [...]
Need to make multiple PDFs into one? Here is an easy way to do it with Ghostscript: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf After scanning a few documents, I converted the resulting individual PNGs into PDFs and then used the command above to make a single, multi-page PDF. Here’s a few other apps [...]
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