Tag Archives: GNU/Linux

Remove Part of File Names using PHP

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Robby Chen

Since David’s Batch Processor was pre-installed in GIMP on Ubuntu Studio, I used it extensively in the ICAF Gallery project today. My goal for these images is to resize their thumbnail version to 10KB or smaller and retain the original … Continue reading →

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Transitioning to Ubuntu Studio

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Robby Chen

Yesterday I switched to Ubuntu Studio 10.04 mainly because I love the audio production tools available in the distro. The first time I tried to install Ubuntu Studio from the original DVD was a failure. That’s probably because this distro … Continue reading →

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Changing Back to the Original Schedule and First Video Post (Updated)

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Robby Chen

Update (08/25/2010): The video quality has been improved thanks to OpenShot. Note that to watch the original HD quality, you must switch to 720p or 1080p. I also fixed the PHP script to exclude the XML file inside the background.xml … Continue reading →

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Running Sims 3 under PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu Linux

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Robby Chen

Back when I was using Windows Vista years ago, I played The Sims 3 and other games for several hours. Once I switched to GNU/Linux, I got rid of these games when I failed to run them under Wine. However, … Continue reading →

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Linux Shell Programming Basics

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been reading Wrox Beginning Linux Programming this week. The book mainly teaches how to programming in GNU/Linux using C. Since I’m learning the basics of C, I thought I could understand some of the materials in this book. … Continue reading →

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Linux movies website overview

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Robby Chen

I watched some psychology related films today because of my recent interest for multiple personality disorder (now called dissociative identity disorder). Therefore I don’t have much to write about GNU/Linux or web development. However, I’m going to talk a little … Continue reading →

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Use Rhythmbox to sync with iPod Touch

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Robby Chen

Today I happened to be downloaded a music album online and an audio book from Librivox. I want to transfer them to my iPod Touch. The first program that I remembered to have iPod Touch/iPhone sync ability is Rhythmbox so … Continue reading →

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Text-to-speech web service Odiogo (Updated)

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Robby Chen

Update(06/01/2010 10:30 AM): The audio version of this post is now available. You can click the above “listen now” button to listen to this post. Update (05/31/2010 11:25 AM): Apparently, Odiogo hasn’t converted this newest post to audio yet. According to … Continue reading →

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Created a new logo

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Robby Chen

I decided that the logo redesign is my next step for the project. Blender and GIMP are two editors that I used to design the current logo. The tools I used to create redesigned logo are Inkscape and GIMP. I … Continue reading →

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Manage files using PHP on Linux Server

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been playing around with my Ubuntu Server recently and found out that I have to use SSH each time I need to use the server. This remained me of PHP backtick operator, which has the ability to execute … Continue reading →

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