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16 ms_meme's Nook: Come The New Year This release was made possible by the following volunteers:
18 Convert PDF Files To Graphic Files With Ease Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote)
Assistant Editor: Meemaw
20 Screenshot Showcase Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth, ms_meme, Meemaw
Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme
21 PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner HTML Layout: YouCanToo
Staff:
22 GIMP Tutorial: Make A Simple Animation ms_meme loudog
Meemaw YouCanToo
23 Screenshot Showcase Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. Pete Kelly
Daniel Meiß-Wilhelm Antonis Komis
24 Tip Top Tips: GUI For FreeRDP daiashi Smileeb
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29 PCLinuxOS Family Member Spotlight: Phil The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative
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DECEMBER
OCTOBER 03 – Don Calfa, Actor – Paulie the hitman in “Weekend at Bernie’s” (1989) – age
12 – Tommy Ford , Actor – Tommy Strawn in the sitcom Martin – age 52 76
21 – Kevin Meaney, Comedian – “Uncle Buck” in the TV series by the same 03 – Billy Chapin , Actor – Little John Harper in “The Night of the Hunter” (1955)
name – age 60 – age 72
23 – Pete Burns , Singer/Songwriter – founded the band Dead or Alive, “You Spin 07 – Greg Lake , Musician – founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Me Round (Like a Record)” – age 57 “Lucky Man” – age 69
24 – Bobby Vee , Singer – “Take Good Care of My Baby”, “The Night Has a 08 – Joseph Mascolo , Actor – Stefano DiMera on “The Days of Our Lives”
Thousand Eyes” – age 73 (1982-’85) & (1993-2001) – age 87
30 – Tammy Grimes , Stage Actress – Molly in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” – 08 – John Glenn , WWII & Korean War Fighter Pilot. Marine Colonel. NASA
age 82 Astronaut. Senator from Ohio (1974-99). Married for 73 yrs – first American to
orbit the Earth (1962) – age 95
12 – Jim Lowe , Singer – biggest hit “The Green Door” (1956) – age 93
NOVEMBER 13 – Alan Thicke , Actor – Jason Seaver, the father on “Growing Pains” (1985-
03 – Kay Starr, Singer – “Wheel of Fortune” and “The Rock And Roll Waltz” – ’92) – age 69
age 94 14 – Bernard Fox, Actor – Dr. Bombay in “Bewitched” and Colonel Crittendon in
07 – Janet Reno , Attorney General of the United States 1993-2001 nominated by “Hogan’s Heroes” – age 89
President Bill Clinton – age 78 15 – Craig Sager, Sports Reporter – best known for covering the NBA and for his
07 – Leonard Cohen , Poet/Songwriter – “Suzanne”, “Hallelujah” and “Bird on the loud suits – age 65
Wire” – age 82 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian Actress and Socialite – Moulin Rouge (1952),
11 – Robert Vaughn , Actor – Napoleon Solo in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964- married nine times to mostly wealthy men – age 99
’68) – age 83 18 – Gordie Tapp , Entertainer – wrote and acted on “Hee Haw” – age 94
13 – Leon Russell, Musician/Songwriter – “A Song for You”, “Tight Rope” and 20 – Michèle Morgan , French Actress – Joan of Paris (1942), Higher and Higher
“This Masquerade” – age 74 (1943) – age 96
14 – Gwen Ifill , Journalist – “Washington Week” and “PBS NewsHour” on PBS – 24 – Richard Adams , Author – Watership Down, The Plague Dogs – age 96
age 61 24 – Rick Parfitt, Musician/Songwriter – rock band Status Quo; “Pictures of
15 – Holly Dunn , C&W Singer / Songwriter – “Are You Ever Gonna Love Me” Matchstick Men” – age 68
and “You Really Had Me Going” – age 59 24 – Liz Smith , Actress – Nana in “The Royle Family”, Annie Brandon in I Didn’t
24 – Florence Henderson , Actress/Singer – Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” Know You Cared – age 96
(1969 to 1974) – age 82 25 – George Michael , Singer/Songwriter – #1 hits; “Faith”, “I Want Your Sex”,
“Careless Whisper” – age 53
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26 – Ricky Harris , Actor/Comedian – Ray in “Hard
Rain” – age 54
26 – George S. Irving , Stage Actor – Oklahoma!
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(1943), Me and Juliet (1953) – age 94
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Wars” (1977) and four sequels – age 60 and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from
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New Year's Resolutions
From The PCLinuxOS Forum
by Meemaw
ms_meme
“Make your resolutions
Step right up this way
Write it down quickly
And put it on display
Crow
sammy2fish
“No resolutions, just some dreams that may become
plans. “Humm. Have never ever made a New Year's
resolution yet.
Family time is a must. Sometimes it has been very
difficult but all this years we did at least 2 meals Decisions to change something in one's life should
each day in family, lately my wife hasn't been at the come at anytime when a person feels a need for it,
table because work doesn't allow it and I can only be right…”
in one meal, we talked about it and decided that it
will be like that for a year. I hope in February I will be Yes, any time one feels the need, one should start
at home more time and she will be in August. parnote the change.
This year I accomplished a goal, I lost 15 Kg I “I'm quite tempted to make the same New Year's
gained after a surgery 4 years ago and the broken resolution that I do every year: resolve to not make a As you can see, the opinions are as different as we
shoulder 2 years ago. I have 10 Kg more to go New Year's resolution. That way, there's no all are. Some make resolutions for the year, and
(those were there before the surgery) and I want to disappointment in store! some dream of things they want to do. Whatever
take it easy, it's Christmas. you do, I hope it’s a great year for you, and that you
But, honestly ... I wish there was a way to increase succeed at whatever your dream turns out to be.
Next year I can retire and I'll take it, things are family time. Short of changing time itself, there isn't
changing very fast and I can't risk a legislative any way, given mine and Laura's schedules at work.
measure against retirement age or amount. I've There is a light at the end of the tunnel, though. As
received a couple of work offerings but I don't think I soon as my house is paid off (should be within the
want to continue doing Psychology or projects next 3 to 5 years), I'm dropping my hours to part
anymore, I want something completely different, time. That way, I can spend more time with the kids,
scrot - q 85
This will set the quality at 85%. Just like with the
resize flag, valid numbers are 1 to 100, with the
higher numbers signifying higher quality.
scrot - s - d3 - t 75 - q 90
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ms_meme's Nook: Come The New Year
#! /bin/bash
n=1
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as the banner graphic each month on the
magazine’s website for the magazine’s HTML
edition.
Summary
The more you explore ImageMagick and its slew of
command line tools, the more you will discover that it
can do to make life easier for you. Until just recently,
I wasn’t aware that the convert command could read
PDF files. But now that I know it can, it has
unleashed some serious power, taking a previously
time consuming task and making it so simple that my
three year old son Ryan could perform the tasks.
1. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
Donate NOW
In a large skillet, combine the rice, salsa, chicken, ** I used chicken that I bought
black beans (drained), chili powder, and chicken on sale and shredded myself.
broth. Stir until everything is evenly combined.
*** Chili powder is not red chile
Place a tight fitting lid on the skillet, turn the heat on powder. Chili powder is a mild
to high, and let the skillet come to a full boil. As soon blend of spices used to season
as the skillet comes to a boil, turn the heat down to chili.
low and let it simmer for 30 minutes. Make sure it is
simmering the entire time, turning the heat up
slightly if needed (you should be able to hear it
simmer quietly).
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reduction. However, if your gif isn’t very big in the
first place (mine is only 800 x 400 px) file size won’t
be too serious. The biggest mine turned out was
66.4KB, and that was with no optimization. The
optimized ones were around 36KB. If you start a
bigger canvas, it will probably make a big difference.
There is also a choice for no optimization.
Now you can choose File > Export, and name your
animation using the file format gif. When you do that,
you will get a new window asking if it should save
the image as an animation. This is exactly what we
need. In the window, you have some checkboxes to
specify what you want.
The box “As animation” HAS to be checked, of Posted by francesco_bat, on December 21, running icewm.
course. The frame delay was set in your Layers
Dialog, but if you hadn’t done it there, you can do it
here. Loop forever means play over and over, so if
KRecipes
First up is KRecipes, a highly configurable recipe
manager with many features. It can import recipes
Gourmet
from many formats, including MasterCook, Meal-
There is also Gourmet, another feature rich recipe
Master, RecipeML, Rezkonv, and TXT files. You can
manager. When you first open Gourmet, you'll notice
also import SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL
that it has a simpler interface. As for recipe formats,
databases. Along with importing, KRecipes can also
Gourmet can import MasterCook, Meal-Master, Zip
export to many formats. Those include TXT, HTML,
and Tarball, TXT, HTML, KRecipes, and MCP files.
Meal-Master, RecipeML, MasterCook, and Rezkonv
You can also give it an URL and it will get a recipe
files. Also, of course, KRecipes also has its own
from a webpage. Also, it can export to HTML, Meal-
formats, KRE and KREML.
Master, PDF, TXT, and MCB. Gourmet also has its
own format.
Summary
Donate To PCLinuxOS
Well, both KRecipes and Gourmet have many
features. Both can generate shopping lists, and both Community Supported.
can do one simple thing, organize your recipes. No Billionaires/Millionaires.
Although I like Gourmet, I think KRecipes is the No Corporate Backing Or Funding.
winner. It just has more features, and is more
configurable. So this month I'd recommend
KRecipes. Click here to make a one-time donation
through Google Checkout.
The PCLinuxOS Magazine
Or, click one of the amounts down below
Gourmet also has a shopping list generator (center, Created with Scribus to make a monthly, recurring donation.
top). Like KRecipes, it is generated based on what is
required for a recipe. The list can then be printed.
You can also view the nutritional information of Want To Help?
recipes. Gourmet does have support for plugins, but
I don't know what plugins are available. Would you like to help with the PCLinuxOS
Magazine? Opportunities abound. So get
Gourmet is good program, but not as configurable involved!
as KRecipes. I don't think it’s quite as good.
You can write articles, help edit articles, serve
as a "technical advisor" to insure articles are
correct, create artwork, or help with the
Linux Docs magazine's layout.
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Getting It To Run
Install Steam (if you don’t have it installed already),
then start it. You will need to create a new account, if Posted by `ĦξŘŤζ_, on December 4, running KDE.
you do not already have one. Once you have Steam
up and running, go to the store tab. Click on the
Linux tab if you wish and search for Scrap Garden.
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What would you like to see happen within
PCLOS that would make it a better place. What
are your feelings?
PCLinuxOS is very comfortable for me, it just works
and is reliable. Of course there are the occasional
glitches, that is inevitable. I have backups so I do not
worry about this. It has a comprehensive selection of
software, a good selection of desktops, and it has
ethics. I trust the judgement of the developers when
hard decisions need to be made.
SCRAPPLER RULES:
1. Follow the rules of Scrabble®. You can
view them here. You have seven (7) letter
tiles with which to make as long of a word
as you possibly can. Words are based on
the English language. Non-English
language words are NOT allowed.
2. Red letters are scored double points.
Green letters are scored triple points.
3. Add up the score of all the letters that
you used. Unused letters are not scored.
For red or green letters, apply the
multiplier when tallying up your score.
Next, apply any additional scoring
multipliers, such as double or triple word
score.
4. An additional 50 points is added for
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E D A R A P S M K G Y Z C Z I W U Y Z R T I F L Z S F S Q V countdown dancing
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L A Y E F A U K H A T T O K S K B H T T D B L E S U D N O N noisemaker out with the old
U T B M Q C Q S D S E M A G T U C A H R Z A D L D N B X V F parade party
J F A A N W B E E C F S N C I S F M E A B B W K B T H N W W
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