[SlugLUG] What am I missing out on?

[Peter Belew]

Sounds like a good list

On 5/17/06, Eric Carter <eacarter at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Some of my favorites:
>
> gqview (awesome image viewing software)

 I use that a lot.

> wget (recursive downloader)

 And that's really useful.

 For scripted manipulation of images, like creating thumbnails from
a lot of photos,, batch conversion of .jpg files to .png files, etc, etc, etc,
there is the ImageMagick package, which is a collection of separate
programs, like convert and mogrify. I use this for processing images
from my digital camera. I have various perl and bash scripts that
evoke ImageMagick programs for creating web pages.

By the way, since I've started using Ubuntu I've been using gThumb
to download photos from my camera. My complaint is that it seems
to want to create thumbnails from ALL the photos in the camera when
you plug in the camera and turn it on. The program I was using for
this under Fedora allowed you to do this selectively, which saved time
and temporary disk space. What else is available on Ubuntu that
might solve that problem?

 - Peter

> Dynamic DNS Client (from dyndns.org, I can access my machine with it's
> dynamic IP from a domain name, the client updates the DNS every time I
> get a new IP)
> SVN (manage my own code in a CVS style repository)
>
>
> EC
>
> Eric Carter wrote:
> > I've only been using linux for 4 years (wow, has it been that long?).
> > And it seems like I'm always discovering new software. So there must be
> > more good stuff that I haven't found yet.
> >
> > So what am I missing out on? Whats that one killer app that you couldn't
> > live without? If you could install one (or two) programs on my box for
> > my daily (or semi-regular) use, what would they be?
> >
> > EC
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