Inkscape Evaluation is an article writen by Jakub Steiner (jimmac) who is the main artist of GNOME community. Inkscape is the most power open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Jakub Steiner analyses and formulates principles which can help Inkscape developers improve it to level of commercial Illustrator.
New Limassol theatres schedule
The coming cinema weekend will please us two novelty. The first one is a crime “After the Sunset”. The story is about two retired super jewel thieves and super FBI agent who wants to catch them and devises a sly plan how to do it. The second one is a comedy “Alfie” about a cockney womanizer. Personally I’m waiting for next weekend to watch “Elektra” […]
cinema2rss
I’ve created a RSS channel for Limassol theatres schedule. I hope it will make that service more useful for you 🙂
Is your car safe from breaking in???
Recently I have found a quite intersting article about tools which can be used to breaking in cars (Russian/German). I was surprised it’s so easy to open a car without any defects of the lock. Also, it’s amazing that those tools are not so expensive and somebody can bay them without any problems. You can see on the picture a set of tools to break […]
tar: Howto Exclude or Include Files
Recently I’ve had a little problem. I’ve needed to create an archive from some source directories but I’ve not needed to add in the archive some subdirectorives. I’ve made a quick search in Google and found an article “Telling tar Which Files to Exclude or Include”. Here is a short example: $ find videoguide/ ! -type d -print | egrep ‘/,|%$|~$|.jpg$|.gif$|.png$’ > /tmp/exclude_files That command […]
POP3 web interface
mail_reader.pl is a simple Perl script which implement a web interface to the POP3 mail box. It allows to see a list of messages and delete all of them. Put that script into your CGI-bin directory, make it executable and see your mail box.
PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the release of version 8.0.0 of the PostgreSQL ORDBMS. Changes: – Native Windows port – Savepoints/nested transactions – Exception handling inside functions – Tablespaces – Point in time recovery – Improved shared buffer management – Background writer process to reduce checkpoint impact – Tunable delays to reduce the impact of VACUUM – Overhaul of pg_dump and pg_restore – […]
img2thubnail
This is a simple script which helps you to make a list of thumbnails of your pictures list. To see how to use it type $ img2thumbnail.pl –help img2thumbnail.pl