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Chapter 1: Becoming a Penguinista
Figure 1-1: Tux, the Linux mascot
Chapter 2: Making Commitments
Figure 2-1: RawWrite under Windows
Figure 2-2: Setting the default OS on a dual-boot system
Figure 2-3: Selecting programs and packages to install
Figure 2-4: Selecting sound and video package details
Figure 2-5: Installing Fedora Core
Figure 2-6: Creating a boot diskette
Figure 2-7: Choose the installation disk or partition
Figure 2-8: Confirm the deletion of the partition
Figure 2-9: Select the free space and add a new partition
Figure 2-10: Create a root partition
Figure 2-11: A completed partition setup
Figure 2-12: The post-installation Welcome screen
Chapter 3: A New Place to Call Home
Figure 3-1: The Fedora Core login screen
Figure 3-2: The GNOME desktop
Figure 3-3: Viewing thumbnails in a Nautilus window
Figure 3-4: Viewing an enlarged image in a Nautilus window
Figure 3-5: Using the Tree view in the Nautilus side pane
Figure 3-6: Using the Nautilus Bookmarks menu
Figure 3-7: Files and folders with the verboten symbol
Figure 3-8: Changing permissions in the Nautilus Properties window
Figure 3-9: The Run Application dialog box
Figure 3-10: Search results for kolf.png in the Search for Files window
Figure 3-11: The GNOME Panel
Figure 3-12: Creating a launcher in a drawer
Figure 3-13: Choosing an icon for an application
Figure 3-14: Your newly customized GNOME Panel
Figure 3-15: The GNOME Panel Properties window
Figure 3-16: A Mac OS X–like desktop with panels at the top and right side of the screen
Figure 3-17: Saving a screenshot
Figure 3-18: Taking a screenshot with the GIMP
Chapter 4: More Than Webbed Feet
Figure 4-1: Standard telephone and Ethernet connectors compared
Figure 4-2: Serial port and connector
Figure 4-3: Using KPPP to enter your Internet settings
Figure 4-4: KPPP displaying the results from a successful modem query
Figure 4-5: KPPP’s “can’t find modem” message
Figure 4-6: Selecting another device location in the KPPP Configuration window
Figure 4-7: Setting up a new account in KPPP
Figure 4-8: Your new account information as shown in the main KPPP window
Figure 4-9: The maximized and minimized (Panel) views of the KPPP logged-on window
Figure 4-10: Opening a link in a new tab in Mozilla
Figure 4-11: A link opened in a new tab in Mozilla
Figure 4-12: Blocking pop-up windows in the Mozilla Preferences window
Figure 4-13: Using Mozilla Composer to create Web pages
Figure 4-14: Using Evolution for email, appointments, tasks, and weather reports
Figure 4-15: Adding instant messaging accounts to Gaim
Figure 4-16: Signing on with Gaim
Figure 4-17: Looking up words with the GNOME Dictionary
Figure 4-18: Using gFTP to download via FTP
Figure 4-19: Chatting with X-Chat
Chapter 5: Dressing up the Bird
Figure 5-1: Creating a new user account
Figure 5-2: The new user account displayed in the User Manager window
Figure 5-3: Adding folders to your Home folder
Figure 5-4: Choosing emblems for your folders
Figure 5-5: Choosing a background for your Nautilus window
Figure 5-6: Selecting emblems from the Nautilus side pane
Figure 5-7: Changing your desktop background
Figure 5-8: Selecting a background image
Figure 5-9: Selecting the destination folder for your download
Figure 5-10: Your newly wallpapered desktop
Figure 5-11: Selecting a theme in GNOME
Figure 5-12: The new look of your Home folder window
Figure 5-13: Installing a new theme
Figure 5-14: Customizing the Login Manager
Figure 5-15: Setting screensaver preferences
Figure 5-16: Setting sounds to play for different events in GNOME
Figure 5-17: Mozilla makes sure that you want to go on with the installation
Figure 5-18: Mozilla with the Sky Pilot Classic theme installed
Chapter 6: Gutenbird
Figure 6-1: The empty Printer Configuration window
Figure 6-2: Starting up the Print Queue wizard
Figure 6-3: Checking the queue type for your new printer queue
Figure 6-4: Selecting the printer model for your new printer queue
Figure 6-5: Making temporary printing changes in the print Properties window
Figure 6-6: Setting driver options in the Edit a Print Queue window
Figure 6-7: Print queues listed in the Printer Configuration window
Figure 6-8: Setting a default print queue in the GNOME Print Manager
Figure 6-9: A print queue icon in the GNOME Panel
Figure 6-10: Canceling a print job
Chapter 7: Putting Your Data on Ice
Figure 7-1: Formatting a floppy disk
Figure 7-2: Playing CDs with the GNOME CD Player
Figure 7-3: Entering playlist info with the CDDB Track Editor
Figure 7-4: An empty Nautilus CD Creator window
Figure 7-5: Setting options before writing a CD
Figure 7-6: X-CD-Roast copies audio and data CDs
Figure 7-7: Setting up X-CD-Roast to read a CD you want to duplicate
Figure 7-8: Selecting an ISO to burn to CD in X-CD-Roast
Chapter 8: RPM Isn’t a 1980’s Atlanta-Based Band
Figure 8-1: The sliding-tile puzzle game, Skoosh
Figure 8-2: Preparing to install Skoosh
Figure 8-3: Playing Frozen-Bubble
Figure 8-4: The Package Not Found warning window
Figure 8-5: Using the Package Management window to add or remove packages
Figure 8-6: Using Epiphany to browse the Web
Figure 8-7: Selecting Epiphany to be installed
Chapter 9: Simple Kitten Ways
Figure 9-1: Putting the Terminal in perspective
Figure 9-2: The Terminal application
Figure 9-3: Output from the df command
Figure 9-4: Output from the df command with the -h flag
Figure 9-5: Results of your locate search
Figure 9-6: The meaning of permissions numbers
Figure 9-7: Seeking wisdom from pyWings
Figure 9-8: PyWings bestows its wisdom
Figure 9-9: Installing RPMs with the rpm command
Figure 9-10: File Roller extracts and creates file archives
Figure 9-11: Using File Roller to extract files from a tarball
Figure 9-12: Predicting the future with pyChing
Figure 9-13: Flash content before installing the Flash plug-in
Figure 9-14: Viewing Flash content after installing the Flash plug-in
Chapter 10: Yes, Yet Another Way
Figure 10-1: Downloading and installing Synaptic
Figure 10-2: The MPlayer video player
Figure 10-3: The gxine video player
Figure 10-4: Using Synaptic to download and install MPlayer
Figure 10-5: The download progress indicator in Synaptic
Figure 10-6: The installation progress indicator in Synaptic
Figure 10-7: Adding repositories to the sources list in Synaptic
Chapter 11: Dining on Tarballs
Figure 11-1: The Xmahjongg game
Figure 11-2: The contents of the folder created by extracting the Xmahjongg tarball
Figure 11-3: Reading a tarball’s INSTALL file in a Nautilus window
Figure 11-4: XPenguins in action
Figure 11-5: The XPenguins Panel applet (and some more penguins in action)
Chapter 12: Data on Ice Revisited
Figure 12-1: A USB flash drive and card reader
Figure 12-2: A USB connector plug and USB ports
Figure 12-3: Looking at a USB storage device in the Hardware Browser
Figure 12-4: Modifying the fstab file
Chapter 13: Tux Rocks
Figure 13-1: Grip displaying CD information retrieved from the Internet
Figure 13-2: Choosing to just rip or rip and encode in Grip
Figure 13-3: Setting up Grip to encode MP3s
Figure 13-4: Sound Juicer displaying CD information
Figure 13-5: Setting the default location for Sound Juicer audio files
Figure 13-6: The Rhythmbox sound player
Figure 13-7: Setting up Rhythmbox
Figure 13-8: Selecting music by artist in Rhythmbox
Figure 13-9: The three components of XMMS
Figure 13-10: Making XMMS the default audio player
Figure 13-11: Adding songs to the XMMS playlist via the Load Files window
Figure 13-12: A new playlist shown in the XMMS playlist window
Figure 13-13: Instructing Mozilla to play Ogg streams with XMMS
Figure 13-14: Inputting proxy settings for Ogg Vorbis streams in XMMS
Figure 13-15: Changing XMMS skins: before and after
Figure 13-16: The XMMS Skin Selector window
Figure 13-17: XMMS components stacked in classic stereo configuration
Figure 13-18: Modifying audio file tag info with EasyTAG
Figure 13-19: Adjusting audio files with Audacity
Figure 13-20: Filling out the download form on the RealPlayer Web page
Figure 13-21: Downloading the RealOne Player
Figure 13-22: Running the RealOne Player
Chapter 14: Brush-Wielding Penguins
Figure 14-1: Manipulating a digital image in the GIMP
Figure 14-2: Playing with Tux Paint
Figure 14-3: Creating real graphics with Sodipodi
Figure 14-4: Viewing images in a folder with gThumb
Figure 14-5: Scaling an image in gThumb
Figure 14-6: Adding a new emblem to your collection
Figure 14-7: A new emblem (Kitten Stuff) in the Emblems window
Figure 14-8: Modifying an icon in Icon Editor
Figure 14-9: Scanning with Sane
Figure 14-10: Configuring gtKam to work with your digital camera
Figure 14-11: Accessing your images with gtKam
Figure 14-12: Deleting images from your camera with gtKam
Chapter 15: Penguins Back to Work
Figure 15-1: The two types of tips in OpenOffice.org: standard (top) and extended (bottom)
Figure 15-2: The Function toolbar in OpenOffice.org
Figure 15-3: The Navigator window
Figure 15-4: The Gallery
Figure 15-5: A letter created in OpenOffice.org’s word processor — Writer
Figure 15-6: A spreadsheet created in OpenOffice.org Calc
Figure 15-7: Preparing a presentation in OpenOffice.org Impress
Figure 15-8: A newsletter created (and displayed) in OpenOffice.org Draw
Figure 15-9: The other Linux word processor — AbiWord
Figure 15-10: Setting up an hourly command with KTimer
Figure 15-11: Making notes with KJots
Figure 15-12: Creating a tarball or ZIP file with File Roller
Figure 15-13: The results of an F-Prot Antivirus scan
Chapter 16: Font Feathered Frenzy
Figure 16-1: Font icons display the first letter in the font
Figure 16-2: Previewing a font by double-clicking the font icon
Figure 16-3: Setting system font preferences
Figure 16-4: Using PfaEdit to create fonts
Chapter 17: Tux Speaks Your Language
Figure 17-1: A Hindi Web page viewed without proper font support
Figure 17-2: The Hindi Web page after the indic.ttf font is installed
Figure 17-3: Inputting characters with the Unicode Character Map
Figure 17-4: Adding keymaps to the Keyboard Layout Switcher
Figure 17-5: Desktop icons in English, Hebrew, Japanese, Icelandic, and Turkish
Figure 17-6: Using the Japanese IME
Figure 17-7: Korea (Hangug) written horizontally in Hangul
Figure 17-8: An example of the clustering process in the Korean IME
Figure 17-9: A KVocTrain multiple-choice quiz
Figure 17-10: FlashKard in input and quiz modes
Figure 17-11: Looking up words in StarDict
Figure 17-12: StarDict provides inline definitions for selected text
Chapter 18: Tux Untethered
Figure 18-1: All you need for a Wi-Fi setup: an access point and a network interface card
Figure 18-2: Wired and wireless Internet connections compared
Figure 18-3: A pair of PCMCIA slots
Figure 18-4: Results of the lsmod command showing the loaded drivers for a wireless NIC
Figure 18-5: Network Configuration window
Figure 18-6: Adding your wireless device with the Add Device wizard
Figure 18-7: A new wireless card added to the list of network devices
Figure 18-8: Configuring your wireless NIC to allow for easy user activation
Figure 18-9: Activating your network devices
Chapter 19: Leaving the Nest
Figure 19-1: Changing the auto-login settings in Fedora Core
Figure 19-2: Changing screen resolution
Figure 19-3: Customizing KDE with the KDE Control Center
Figure 19-4: An image gallery created in KDE’s Konqueror
Figure 19-5: Changing the default desktop environment with Desktop Switcher
Figure 19-6: Choosing files to update with Up2date
Figure 19-7: Choosing to upgrade a previous version of Fedora
Figure 19-8: md5sum results in the Terminal window
Figure 19-9: The man page for the
cp
command
Figure 19-10: Running the “Hey, good looking” Python program
Figure 19-11: The “Hey, good looking” program in its own window
Figure 19-12: Setting up Wine with WinSetuptk
Figure 19-13: The Windows game BookWorm running under Wine
Figure 19-14: A Windows installer running under Wine.
Chapter 20: What To Do If Tux Starts Acting Up
Figure 20-1: Connecting your CD drive to your new sound card
Appendix B: Resources
Figure B-1: Example of bottom posting
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Linux for Non-Geeks: A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
ISBN: 1593270348
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 188
Authors:
Rickford Grant
BUY ON AMAZON
Absolute Beginner[ap]s Guide to Project Management
Planning a Project
Performance Reporting
Lessons from Project Recoveries
Common Project Change Control Challenges
Powerful Risk Control Strategies
Strategies for Information Technology Governance
An Emerging Strategy for E-Business IT Governance
Measuring and Managing E-Business Initiatives Through the Balanced Scorecard
Technical Issues Related to IT Governance Tactics: Product Metrics, Measurements and Process Control
Managing IT Functions
Governing Information Technology Through COBIT
C++ How to Program (5th Edition)
(Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Examining the ATM Requirements Document
Wrap-Up
Other Error-Handling Techniques
J.11. Intermediate XHTML Tables and Formatting
Summary
An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4
Functions
DataObject: An Extension of QObject
Review Questions
The Façade Pattern
Types and Expressions
Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior
Chapter I e-Search: A Conceptual Framework of Online Consumer Behavior
Chapter III Two Models of Online Patronage: Why Do Consumers Shop on the Internet?
Chapter IV How Consumers Think About Interactive Aspects of Web Advertising
Chapter IX Extrinsic Plus Intrinsic Human Factors Influencing the Web Usage
Chapter XI User Satisfaction with Web Portals: An Empirical Study
Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition: The Complete Global Source (2nd Edition)
Traditional Transmission Media
Internet Basics
The Broadband Infrastructure
DSL Technology
2G: Digital Cellular Radio
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