The following paper I wrote a few months ago because I got sick and tired of seeing people switching to GNU/Linux only to continue to run their Windows programs without even bothering to look for alternatives. Of course, they all used either WINE or Cedega to achieve this. Since I am active in testing WINE […]
Archives for July 2008
Converting MNG or GIF to video? [solved]
I hope I’m not asking for the impossible. In fact, I’ve seen some freeware non-freedomware which can do this sort of thing, but I’d like to do it on GNU/Linux. Basically, I have an animation in GIF and MNG and would like to convert this to a proper video like Theora (OGM) or ffmpeg (AVI, […]
POSIX Capabilities Vs. Set-UID
I’ve been mentioned the POSIX-capabilities in my post about EasyLFS 0.5 and promised another post to clarify what they actually are about. This is the promised post. POSIX-capabilities are actually nothing new, but haven’t been given much attention so far. This now has changed, they are now supported by the kernel and the necessary library […]