There's a good video tutorial on using Gimp to restore old photos: http://meetthegimp.org/episode-103-portrait-of-a-young-man/
Another question from the same poster at Yahoo Answers:
Gifs aren't good for photographs as they're limited to 256 colours, so whatever the software the outcome will always be lossy. See...
The PCLinuxOS forum has some restrictions about new members requesting packages - AFAIK you can only do that after a certain number of days, or a...
There's a PCLinuxOS user guide available here, which looks good for new users. The downside is that it's for an earlier release of the distro, but...
Vidalia - http://vidalia-project.net/ - bundles Tor and Privoxy.
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the...
This review of Zenwalk has lots of screenshots of the install process. With the latest Zenwalk release the labelling of hard drives has changed,...
Also worth having a look at KnoLinux. The distro reviews are thorough, with lots of screenshots for the install process (like Mrk's site) - great...
Thanks for your input. I had been assuming there was a trade-off between stability and bleeding-edge, but from what you say it ain't necessarily...
How necessary is it to keep your Linux install up to date with the latest release of the distro you're using? I know some distros (Ubuntu,...
This thread goes through various Linux distros. As well as the *buntus, Linux Mint, Mepis and PCLinuxOS are all fairly easy.
I tried Xubuntu briefly before installing Zenwalk. Both were fine with hardware detection (and both have livecds to check that), but Zenwalk boots...
For me, one of the most useful features of alternative browsers is the option of selecting a word or phrase in a webpage and then right-clicking...
kreon28 - try the User Agent Switcher extension.
Re: What's your favourite FREE security software? I'm running Proxomitron on Linux with Wine; there's a useful guide to Wine here:...
Recently switched from PCLinuxOS to Zenwalk. PCLOS is great but sluggish on my computer; Zenwalk is faster and smoother.
PCLinuxOS has great hardware recognition and multimedia support, and the live CD / installer comes with loads of programs. A new release is...
After you create an image, you should verify it using "Check Image" under the tools menu.
Rmus, I read your comment. If "general reader" means ordinary home user, then the general readers I know couldn't cope with the solutions you...
Mrk, Internet won't hack you unless you provoke it I like it, it's a list of dos and don'ts that anyone new to security will find useful,...
It would be good to see a sticky on how malware typically gets onto people's computers (because they download it and run it), what a hacker or bot...
I picked this up a few weeks ago. It works perfectly, and I can't see any need to upgrade.
That's been exactly my experience with Linux. And that's the beauty of live CDs, for checking hardware compatibility, and minimising any work...
Yep, it's a rootkit. Happy now? :) Try searching the forum.
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