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Volume 49 February, 2011 Volume 49 February, 2011 e17: System Panel, Part 2 e17 Accessories: ePDF & ePhoto Using Scribus, Part 2: Starting The Project SSH: An Easier­Than­You­ Thought Tutorial Computer Languages A to Z: Vala & Visual Basic Game Zone: DOD:S & Steam Tips For Dual Booters Calibre: A High Caliber Ebook Tool Forum Foibles Short Story: WWW Collapse Firefox Add­ons: FireFTP DVB Streaming in PCLinuxOS And more inside! TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 4 PCLinuxOS Artists Win First, Second Place 6 Screenshot Showcase 7 Calibre: A High Caliber Ebook Tool The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 12 Forum Foibles: Welcome Newbies Texstar. 14 Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online publication containing PCLinuxOS­related materials. It is 15 Timeth's Christmas Present published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers 16 e17: Settings Panel, Part 2 from the PCLinuxOS community. 17 Screenshot Showcase Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 18 e17 Accessories: ePDF & ePhoto This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 21 Customize Your LXDE Right Click Menu Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) 23 Screenshot Showcase Assistant Editors: Meemaw, Andrew Strick (Stricktoo) Consultants: Archie Arevalo, Tim Robinson 24 WWW Collapse Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth, ms_meme 32 Using Scribus, Part 2: Starting The Project Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme 34 Screenshot Showcase HTML Layout: Galen Seaman 35 Firefox Add­ons: FireFTP Staff: Neal Brooks ms_meme 38 DVB Streaming In PCLinuxOS Galen Seaman Mark Szorady Patrick Horneker Darrel Johnston 42 ms_meme's Nook: PCLOS B My Linux Guy Taylor Meemaw 43 SSH: An Easier­Than­You­Thought Tutorial Andrew Huff Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. Pete Kelly 49 Screenshot Showcase Contributors: 50 Windowmaker On PCLinuxOS: Introduction glamdring Daniel Meiß­Wilhelm 53 Computer Languages From A to Z: Vala & Visual Basic Alain Baudez Longtom The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative 57 Game Zone: DOD:S & Stream Tips For Dual Booters Commons Attribution­NonCommercial­Share­Alike 3.0 59 Screenshot Showcase Unported license. Some rights are reserved. Copyright © 2011. 60 More Screenshot Showcase 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr Things certainly don't stand still in the Linux world. Personally, I like contest. We also take a look at Timeth's Christmas As usual, changes abound. Xfce 4.8, the newest the speeds offered present to PCLinuxOS forum users. release from the Xfce development team, has been by the heanet and released. Sproggy is busy building the new Xfce 4.8 nluug servers, I examine Calibre, the cross platform ebook tool that components, and plans to have it released very, very despite the fact has become the "go­to" application for dealing with soon. Meanwhile, KDE 4.6.0 has been released by that they aren't ebook files. I also take a look at how easy it is to use the KDE development team, and Texstar is hard at necessarily the SSH, in my tutorial on the powerful tool that's work to bring the latest KDE 4 release to mirrors that are available on virtually all Linux installations and PCLinuxOS users. The Gnome developers have closest to my distros. My Firefox Add­ons articles continue this announced that the much anticipated Gnome 3.0 geographical month with a look at FireFTP, an FTP client that runs desktop is scheduled for release in April, 2011. location. Even entirely within Firefox. better yet, run the Many users have noticed that updates to the PCLinuxOS Game Zone returns this month with game review by PCLinuxOS repository have temporarily stopped. Repository Speed glamdering, along with a way to run Steam on Ibiblio.org upgraded their servers, and the process Test application, PCLinuxOS (if you dual boot with Windows). Leiche didn't go as smoothly as it was planned. Never fear. and choose the walks us through customizing the right click menu in Texstar is currently working with the ibiblio.org folks repository that LXDE's PCManFM, Longtom translates the DVB to resolve the issues. Hopefully, the situation will be gives you the best Streaming tutorial from Leiche's German site into resolved by the time you read this, or nearing performance (other than ibiblio.org). English. Patrick Horneker kicks off a look at running resolution. WindowMaker on PCLinuxOS. This month, we have lots of articles that I am certain Why is the ibiblio.org repository so important? It is will appeal to a lot of PCLinuxOS users, across the Eronstuc gives us another installment of his article THE main repository that all of the mirrors sync with. board. One that should find universal appeal is the series that marches through the alphabet of So, without the updates to ibiblio.org, there are no special short story, WWW Collapse, by Alain programming languages. Double Take & Mark's updates to the mirrors. As a reminder, PCLinuxOS Baudez, presented in a comic book panel format. Quick Gimp Tip, along with Forum Foibles and users should NOT use the ibiblio.org repository to The comic book characters were drawn by two of ms_meme's Nook, are back for your monthly update their installations. Doing so creates Timeth's students in Japan. enjoyment. excessive server load on the main PCLinuxOS repository, and may slow the rate at which the Meemaw continues her tutorial on using Scribus, So that's enough from me, until next month. mirrors can sync with the main repository. Instead, with part two of her article series. She also brings us Meanwhile, I wish each and every one of you peace, choose a mirror that's closest to your geographical part two of her look at the e17 Settings Panel. Darrel happiness, serenity and prosperity. location (other than ibiblio.org). This distributes the Johnston takes a closer look at two of the accessory server load over many servers, which enables applications that accompany a typical e17 PCLinuxOS users all around the world to experience installation. We get to learn more about the two reasonably fast downloads and updates. PCLinuxOS artists, ms_meme and Meemaw, who won first and second place in the LinuxGraphicsUsers.com Christmas wallpaper 3 PPCCLLiinnuuxxOOSS AArrttiissttss WWiinn FFiirrsstt,, SSeeccoonndd PPllaaccee by Paul Arnote (parnote) Ms_meme and Meemaw, two PCLinuxOS artists, won first and second place, respectively, in the Christmas Wallpaper Contest at the LinuxGraphicsUsers.com forum. The contest was announced December 4, 2010, and ran through December 27, 2010. Forum visitors were then given a week to vote for their favorite contest entry, and the winners were announced on January 4, 2011. From Dadster, one of the forum administrators there, made this announcement: Voting is now closed and we have our two winners. Ms_meme with her swirltree_desktop and MeeMaw with her ChristmasCard. I want to thank everyone who participated. Well done ! All the artwork submitted was fantastic. Perfect examples of skill, time and imagination. They're a demonstration of what can be accomplished using Linux graphics software. Please join in congratulating our winners, ms_meme and MeeMaw. Ms_meme offered this about her wallpaper and about her win: ms_meme's first place entry, Swirl Tree. When I submitted my entry, I confessed that it was not an I enjoy using Inkscape very much. The members of the of my computer time is spent playing with it. I am very entirely original idea. I justify using others' ideas in the Linux Graphics Users forum have given me much honored to have won the contest. encouragement. I struggled with the program for several following way. When we cook, we use a recipe. When we years and finally got that "aha" moment. Now, a majority sew, we use a pattern. But the outcome is our own, and we 4 PCLinuxOS Artists Win First, Second Place can learn by trying to duplicate something and adding our own touches. I had seen something similar to the Christmas tree, liked the idea and thought, "I can do that!" Whoa! Not so fast! Even the simplest looking things can be difficult. My favorite part of Inkscape is pulling and tugging on those rascally little nodes. Of course Undo is also one of my favorite Inkscape activities. The outline of the tree gave me plenty of opportunity to commune with smooth and symmetric nodes. After getting the tree in shape, I searched for a Christmas ball tutorial and did a lot of copy/paste. I not only used the tree as my holiday wallpaper, but also made a smaller version to send as greetings to friends. Last year I won 3rd place in the contest. I have informed the Linux Graphics Users forum to "Beware" as I have already started my entry for next year. Meemaw offered this about her wallpaper and about her win: I'm one of those people who changes their wallpaper all the time. Occasionally, I even set up my desktop to run through a slideshow of my favorite wallpapers. For years I have surfed the web to find wallpapers to use, but since I started creating wallpapers in Inkscape and Gimp, I don't search too much any more. Meemaw's second place entry, Christmas Card. I really love making things in Inkscape! I feel so lucky to have won because there are so many talented artists on The card was not entirely my original idea. At work, we The rules of the contest were fairly simple. First, the the Linux Graphics Users site. I love that forum as well get catalogs of Christmas cards, and I saw one I thought wallpaper had to be done using open­source and appreciate the support that all the members give each was very pretty, so I tried to create something like it.
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