Volume 131 December, 2017 HHaappppyy HHoolliiddaayyss!! In This Issue ... 3 From The Chief Editor's Desk ... 5 Paul's 2017 Holiday Gift Guide 8 Meemaw's 2017 Holiday Gift Guide 10 Screenshot Showcase 11 YouCanToo's 2017 Holiday Gift Guide 13 Screenshot Showcase 14 phorneker's 2017 Holiday Gift Guide 16 ms_meme's Nook: Bonnes Vacances C'est Si Bon 17 PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Beer Battered Grilled Cheese Sandwich 18 Google Cloud Print Capable Printer Using Raspberry Pi 21 Screenshot Showcase 22 Repo Review: Play It Slowly 22 Screenshot Showcase 23 Inkscape Tutorial: Creating A Pattern 25 GOG's Gems: Two Worlds - Epic Edition 28 Screenshot Showcase 29 Take Better Pictures With Your Smartphone 32 Is PCLinuxOS Really Safe In Today's Cyberworld? 35 Screenshot Showcase 36 ms_meme's Nook: Tex Is Good For You 37 PCLinuxOS Bonus Recipe Corner: Chicken Curry Salad Support PCLinuxOS! Get Your Official 38 PCLinuxOS Family Member Spotlight: Reziac PCLinuxOS 40 PCLinuxOS Puzzled Partitions Merchandise Today! 44 More Screenshot Showcase PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 2 From The Chief Editor's Desk ... It doesn’t seem like enough time has elapsed there in plenty of time, leaving work at 5:30 p.m. for the holidays to be coming around again, but Now the parking lot for this particular Wal-Mart they literally are just right around the corner. I is acres in size. She spent over 30 minutes know we’ve been busy buying the kids their trying to just find a parking spot, because every holiday gifts, as well as gifts for each other. We single one was filled. She ended up parking in a have had to pare down our holiday gift lists this neighboring restaurant’s parking lot, and year, mostly focusing on the kids. The walking to Wal-Mart from there. grandparents have asked us to not buy them anything for the holidays, preferring to focus on Upon arrival to Wal-Mart, she was shocked to the kids and just having everyone around to find everyone behaving in a well-mannered share some precious time during the holiday way. No one was getting riled and ridiculous. season. Everyone was actually being rather courteous to one another. Well, almost everyone. One This month features our annual holiday gift lady was verbally “venting” as she navigated guide, highlighting things that we think might through the sea of people. There always has to make good gifts for those on your holiday gift be at least one. But my wife didn’t witness list. You’ll find gift ideas from me, Meemaw, anyone fighting over merchandise, like you YouCanToo, and phorneker. All totalled, there commonly see in the videos on YouTube or on are 34 gift ideas from four different the nightly news. perspectives. You are certain to find something probably trigger my temper to explosive levels, fitting for those on your gift list (or for yourself) so it’s probably best if I avoid the annual Amazingly, she found everything that was in the that fits into your budget. Item costs on the lists “circus” of Black Friday and Thanksgiving sales. advertisement that she went there to get. Plus, range from under $20 to around $500. Look for video on YouTube, you’ll see what I she found a couple of other items on sale for mean. Just search for “2017 Black Friday” and really good prices for Lexi. And, she also got Since my wife and I both work in healthcare, watch how ridiculous some people behave just the grocery items she needed to pick up. When one of us always seems to have to work on the to save $50 … or less. My idea of holiday she called me from her cell phone that she was holidays. Sickness never takes a holiday, so shopping for the past 10+ years is to order in line to check out, I asked her where she was neither does the hospital staff. My wife had to everything online, and sit back and wait for UPS in the store. She told me, “by the baby diapers.” work on Thanksgiving this year. In their ever to deliver the stuff to my doorstep. At that time, I told her that she’ll spend at least greedier ways, many retailers around our parts 45 minutes in line, if not an hour. The baby open with “Black Friday” sales on Thanksgiving So, having spotted some items she wanted for diapers are at the BACK. OF. THE. STORE. evening (even though Thanksgiving is on the the kids in a Wal-Mart sale that started on fourth Thursday of every November). Thanksgiving evening, she managed to leave I have to give props to the people working at Personally, I will NEVER go to a “Black Friday” work about 45 minutes early so she could stop Wal-Mart. This obviously wasn’t their first rodeo. sale. I’d rather spend more and have to fight by a local Wal-Mart store on her way home. They had a system in place, and it worked. less to get the items I’m after. Fighting the Wal-Mart was opening at 6 p.m. on Each “line” (queue for my UK friends) was crowds just isn’t my cup of tea. Plus, it would Thanksgiving, which should allow my wife to get merely a “feeder” line. At the front of the line PCLinuxOS Magazine Page 3 From The Chief Editor's Desk ... was a Wal-Mart associate. Their job was to assign checkout registers to the people in the feeder line as they became available. Each Disclaimer associate was charged with directing people to 1. All the contents of The PCLinuxOS Magazine are only for general between four and six checkout registers. As information and/or use. Such contents do not constitute advice The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from Texstar. such, my wife spent less than 20 minutes in a making) any decision. Any specific advice or replies to queries in “feeder line” that went all the way to the back of any part of the magazine is/are the person opinion of such The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication experts/consultants/persons and are not subscribed to by The containing PCLinuxOS-related materials. It is published the store, before being able to pay for her items PCLinuxOS Magazine. and hike back to her car … parked in a primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The 2. The information in The PCLinuxOS Magazine is provided on an magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the neighboring restaurant’s parking lot. 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But, because she got through the otherwise, from the use of or inability to use the magazine, or any Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) of its contents, or from any action taken (or refrained from being Assistant Editor: Meemaw checkout line at Wal-Mart so quickly, she was taken) as a result of using the magazine or any such contents or Artwork: ms_meme, Meemaw for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, home before 8 p.m., and we were able to eat deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme together, as a family. virus, communications line failure, theft or destruction or HTML Layout: YouCanToo unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of information contained on the magazine. Staff: I hate the “commercialization” of the holiday ms_meme phorneker 4. No representations, warranties or guarantees whatsoever are Meemaw season as much as anyone. 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