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July 2005 (#116):

     * [1]The Front Page, by Heather Stern
     * [2]The Mailbag
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]Automatic  creation of an Impress presentation from a series of
       images, by Karl-Heinz Herrmann
     * [5]Booting Knoppix from a USB Pendrive via Floppy, by Ben Okopnik
     * [6]Introduction to Shell Scripting, part 6, by Ben Okopnik
     * [7]User-Centered Design, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [8]Transporting Files between Linux and Windows, by Dale Raby
     * [9]SEO and PHP, by Pete Savage
     * [10]Design Awareness: What Parachute Is Your Color?, by Mark Seymour
     * [11]HelpDex, by Shane Collinge
     * [12]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [13]The Linux Laundrette

The Front Page

   By [14]Heather Stern

        Tux with Shadowman's hat has stormy thoughts of centOS penny
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   [BIO]

   Shadowman is a registered trademark of [15]Red Hat, Inc.. We don't know what
   stormy thoughts he truly has of the other - "red sky at morning, sailors
   take warning; red sky at night, sailors delight", perhaps. 

   [BIO] [16]centOS plugs itself as the Community Enterprise OS, and intends to
   be and remain binary compatible with... ummm, a Certain North American
   Software Company. 

   No relation at all to the Taiwanese company [17]CENTOS which makes internal
   and Cardbus peripherals. I didn't know you could get SATA support in pc-card
   form... :) yummy!

   The "penny" I've offered for these thoughts is drawn by Heather Stern using
   the Gimp, based on a photo of a real penny, a monitor from the NeXTstep
   family of icons, the text circle script-fu, beveling tricks, some gradient
   and alphamasking tweaks, and the word portion of the centOS logo stretched
   and mangled by Curve Bend (found under Filter/Distorts) with some correction
   of its outer edges by the perspective tool.

   My  friend silentk online (Pete Savage) provided the photographs of UK
   cloudscapes. If you have need for photos for open source projects, he has
   been  taking  photos  for a couple of years now and has a considerable
   collection.  He can be mailed at [18]pete at progbox dot co.uk to make
   requests.

   Tux is drawn by Larry Ewing using the GIMP.

   Heather is Linux Gazette's Technical Editor and The Answer Gang's Editor
   Gal.
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   [BIO] Heather got started in computing before she quite got started learning
   English. By 8 she was a happy programmer, by 15 the system administrator for
   the home... Dad had finally broken down and gotten one of those personal
   computers, only to find it needed regular care and feeding like any other
   pet.  Except  it wasn't a Pet: it was one of those brands we find most
   everywhere today... 

   Heather  is a hardware agnostic, but has spent more hours as a tech in
   Windows  related  tech  support than most people have spent with their
   computers. (Got the pin, got the Jacket, got about a zillion T-shirts.) When
   she discovered Linux in 1993, it wasn't long before the home systems ran
   Linux regardless of what was in use at work.

   By 1995 she was training others in using Linux - and in charge of all the
   "strange systems" at a (then) 90 million dollar company. Moving onwards,
   it's safe to say, Linux has been an excellent companion and breadwinner...
   She took over the HTML editing for "The Answer Guy" in issue 28, and has
   been slowly improving the preprocessing scripts she uses ever since.

   Here's an autobiographical filksong she wrote called [19]The Programmer's
   Daughter.

   Copyright © 2005, [20]Heather Stern. Released under the [21]Open Publication
   license unless otherwise noted in the body of the article. Linux Gazette is
   not produced, sponsored, or endorsed by its prior host, SSC, Inc.

   Published in Issue 116 of Linux Gazette, July 2005

The Mailbag
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                        HELP WANTED : Article Ideas
   Submit comments about articles, or articles themselves (after reading
   [22]our guidelines) to [23]The Editors of Linux Gazette, and technical
           answers and tips about Linux to [24]The Answer Gang. 
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     * [25]Stumping the Answer Gang, Take II