PCLinuxOS, Writing PCLinuxOS Magazine, PCLinuxOS Screenshots, and More PCLinuxOS News
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From The Chief Editor's Desk...
All of this is in addition to his OTHER duties he takes care of for PCLinuxOS. On his servers, he hosts PCLOS-Talk, PCLOS-Cloud, and the PCLinuxOS forum. Before the ransomware attack, he also hosted the PCLinuxOS Knowledge Base and an image hosting service just for PCLinuxOS users. His servers also host the exclusive-to-PCLinuxOS-users mail server used by many PCLinuxOS users, called PCLOS-Mail.
Even after stepping away from his oversight of the HTML edition of The PCLinuxOS Magazine, YouCanToo still plans to continue his monthly recipes, as well as the occasional article for the magazine.
YouCanToo … we appreciate your hard work and dedication to The PCLinuxOS Magazine, and PCLinuxOS overall, over these years. We hope the extra time you have, freed from your monthly responsibilities of managing the magazine's HTML edition, provides you the opportunity you need to get your health concerns under control. We want you to be with us for many more years to come.
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Resizing Images, Revisited
As you might imagine, I work A LOT with graphic files in my position as the Chief Editor of The PCLinuxOS Magazine. So, I’m always looking for things that will “make my life easier” when working with graphic files. After all, why should I have to open up GIMP (or any other graphic file editor, for that matter) just to convert or resize an image when I can do it so much quicker from a custom bash script? Plus, the custom bash script allows me to perform the tasks on multiple images at once.
Eleven months ago, I updated a previous script that I use to convert between various graphic formats. In doing so, I added “protection” to prevent overwriting the original graphic file, as well as ensuring that the compression value of the image is between 0 and 100.
I often use my custom bash script to convert between different graphic formats. But, I probably use a different custom bash script to resize images even more. Like, almost daily. So, I figured why not give that custom bash script an update to prevent the overwriting of original graphic files, and to ensure that the compression value of the image stays within the range of 0 and 100.
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Happy Birthday, Texstar!
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[PCLinuxOS] Screenshot Showcase
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ICYMI Oldest Known Version Of DOS Discovered
(Snipped from my own personal email) Recently, we [Google] announced that Google Podcasts is going away in 2024. In order to ease this transition, you now have access to a tool that allows you to easily migrate your show subscriptions to YouTube Music or to download a file of your show subscriptions, which you can upload to an app that supports their import. Just like Google Podcasts, with YouTube Music you can listen to podcasts on the go using background play, download podcasts, and more - with no paid membership required. After March 2024, users in the US will no longer be able to listen to podcasts in Google Podcasts. After June 2024, you will no longer be able to migrate or export your subscriptions. My reaction: people are still using Google Podcasts when there are WAY better options? Audacy and iheart radio are two popular alternatives among a ton of sites serving up podcasts. Still, the Google Death Drum beats for yet another Google "service." Buh-duh-boom-boom-boom another one bites the dust!