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Volume 139 August, 2018 Volume 139 August, 2018 Short Topix: Is Your Router At Risk? PCLinuxOS Family Member Spotlight: HERTZ Inkscape Tutorial: Drawing A Tree Knew It All Along: Your Gmail Is Being Spied Upon Between You, Me and Google: Problems With Gmail's "Confidential Mode" YouTube, Part 6: The Epilogue Tip Top Tips: HP Printers That Require The Proprietary Plugin ms_meme's Nook: Midnight In The Forum PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Mexican Layered Party Salad And more inside ... In This Issue ... 3 From The Chief Editor's Desk ... 4 Inkscape Tutorial: Drawing A Tree The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 6 Screenshot Showcase Texstar. 7 Knew It All Along: Your Gmail Is Being Spied Upon The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication containing PCLinuxOS-related materials. It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The 9 Screenshot Showcase magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the 10 ms_meme's Nook: Summertime In The PCLOS Forum PCLinuxOS community. 11 PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Layered Mexican Party Salad Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 12 Short Topix: Is Your Router At Risk? This release was made possible by the following volunteers: Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) 17 Screenshot Showcase Assistant Editor: Meemaw Artwork: ms_meme, Meemaw 18 YouTuber, Part 6: The Epilogue Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme HTML Layout: YouCanToo 21 Screenshot Showcase Staff: 22 PCLinuxOS Family Member Spotlight: HERTZ ms_meme loudog Meemaw YouCanToo Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. Pete Kelly 23 Between You, Me, and Google: Daniel Meiß-Wilhelm Cg_Boy daiashi Khadis Thok Problems With Gmail's "Confidential Mode" Alessandro Ebersol Smileeb 24 Screenshot Showcase Contributors: 25 Tip Top Tips: Installing HP Printers That Require The Proprietary Plugin 26 ms_meme's Nook: Midnight In The Forum The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 27 PCLinuxOS Bonus Recipe Corner: California Cheeseburger Skillet Unported license. Some rights are reserved. Copyright © 2018. 28 Screenshot Showcase 29 PCLinuxOS Puzzled Partitions 33 More Screenshot Showcase PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 2 From The Chief Editor's Desk ... If it weren’t for the events 27 years ago, on August Linux is special in many ways, and not just because but they prominently and proudly display that 25, 1991, we might all still be running Windows. we all (me and all you readers) use it day in and day support either on the box that the printer comes in, How’s that for a horrific thought? On that date, Linus out. Linux users are special, and are not just your or in the device specifications for the printer. Down Torvalds released Linux to the world. Look around. average computer user. Everyone and anyone who the line of computer accessories and hardware, Witness how much Linux has grown since that initial desires to do so can view and study the source Linux support has blossomed and proliferated. release. code. Users can alter that source code pretty much as they see fit. Users can No longer does Linux languish in obscurity. Ten Linux is everywhere. Android contribute code to customize, years ago, it was rare for me to find anyone who phones and tablets can thank improve and extend Linux. knew of – or even heard of – Linux. Today, I find a lot Linux, since they run a version of of people who at least know what I’m talking about, the Linux kernel. Automotive After years of literally and totally even if they are not users themselves. With virtually electronics are using Linux. Many being ignored, computer hardware no advertising budget, there are quite a few factors TV and DVD/Blu-Ray players use manufacturers are now supporting the helped to pull Linux out of the shadows. Linux for their user interfaces. Linux with device drivers to make Certainly, the increased market share led to much Ebook readers are mostly Linux that hardware work/run under more of an increase by word-of-mouth. Support from based. Linux serves as the Linux. I’ve noticed a HUGE hardware manufacturers certainly has helped, but backbone for many IoT devices. difference since I first started using with that one, it’s kind of like the debate about which Linux runs the vast majority of Linux regularly about a dozen came first, the chicken or the egg. Did the growth of supercomputers around the world. years ago. Back then, there were the Linux market spur the support, or did the support a lot of homegrown, roll-your-own help spur the growth? Certainly, Microsoft putting out Linux is everywhere. device drivers by the Linux a flop version of Windows every other release cycle, community. Very few hardware something they have a long, long history of doing, Without it, where would we be? vendors thought that the “Linux helped drive new users to Linux. With every flop There aren’t a whole lot of other market” was big enough to warrant version of Windows released, the Linux community choices. Besides Windows, would the time, energy and effort put into seems to see a new flood of refugees, many of we run Mac OS? Probably not, with development of device drivers for whom never realized that there was an alternative. Apple’s closed ecosystem. We our beloved operating system. could run one of the Unix based operating systems. So, Happy Birthday, Linux! You’ve come a long way, But Unix seems more divided than Linux. Or, would Thankfully, Linux gained a market share that, by baby! Your future is bright for continued growth. something altogether different step up to fill the void some estimates, exceeds that of the Mac OS. All of left by the absence of Linux? a sudden, and thankfully, the hardware vendors saw Until next month, I bid you peace, happiness, Linux users as too large of a market to ignore. serenity and prosperity. I shudder at the thought. Within a one or two year period, we saw tons of hardware vendors jumping on the Linux bandwagon, Would Linux’s replacement be something we’ve offering up driver support for their products. DOWNLOAD already seen? AmigaOS, maybe? OS/2? Or would it be something none of us could imagine because it Boy, how things have changed. Every major wireless doesn’t even exist? Would it embrace open source chipset is backed by drivers from their vendors. Go software as we’ve come to know it? out and look at printers. Virtually every big name printer manufacturer not only offers drivers for Linux, Mate Desktop PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 3 Inkscape Tutorial: Drawing A Tree by Meemaw There are only two settings: Initial size and Select your tree and click on Path > Stroke to Path. Minimum size. Set those to 100 and 4 respectively. This will convert your tree into a much more simple Check the Live preview box and look at what you shape, because we’re going to change it. I found this tutorial in the same place as the grass get. You can try again by unchecking the Live tutorial we did a couple of months ago. This is to preview box and rechecking it (bottom, left). We’re going to deal with the leaves and the trunk make a tree easily, rather than trying to draw one by separately so, using the Pen tool, draw a shape hand. I decided on this one: around the trunk. Select both the tree and the shape you just drew Open Inkscape and click on Extensions > Render > Open up the Fill & Stroke dialog and change the and use Path > Division. You should get something Random Tree. You’ll see a dialog box like the one Stroke to a color green with a width of about 40px. that looks like the tree below. Change the trunk to a below. Set the Join to Miter so it’s still jagged, like trees brown color of your choice. are. PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 4 Inkscape Tutorial: Drawing A Tree Now, with the cut we just made, our leaves look way Now, to make it more realistic, copy the entire tree too straight on the bottom. To fix this, copy and paste top and flip it horizontally and give it a slightly darker the leaf bunch and then flip it vertically. green color. You can also rotate it and/or change the size. Send it to the bottom of your drawing to give it some depth. Now place the two leaf sections together, one on top of the other. You can then group them, or you can select both leaf objects and do a Path > Union to merge them. I also lengthened the trunk as well. It’s your creation, so it’s up to you. Now we also want to add a shadow to the tree trunk. Copy the tree top and tree trunk. Give the tree top copy a black fill with a 50% opacity. Leave the tree trunk in position as we’ll be clipping it for a proper shadow. Move the tree trunk on top of the shadow, select them both, and click on Object > Clip > Set. What you will end with is a shadow of the tree top on the trunk (right, top). To add some finishing touches, I grouped all the tree pieces, duplicated the tree, changed the size of the Click on your tree top and bring it back to the front. I duplicate and flipped it horizontally. Then I moved it also moved the trunk down just a little, and elsewhere on the page. In addition, I put in some sky shortened up the tree top so the shadow is visible and some of the grass we made a couple of months (right).
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