Tag Archives: BASH

Creating Screencasts under Linux

You all probably know what a screencast is. In my opinion, screencasts can greatly complement HOWTO documents and I strongly believe that they will be even more popular in the upcoming years. Although it would be more useful if this post dealt with how to create a screencast using free open-source software, I feel it…

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TV Grabbing On A Pentium 3

Lately, I have been revising a script I use for video grabbing from a bt878-based TV tuner card. What such a task requires is real CPU horsepower, but my desktop PC can only offer an old Pentium III 700MHz running at 933MHz. I decided to squeeze all the performance out of this overclocked processor in…

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Track ’em Down!

I’ve been checking the web server logs lately seeking for a way to track down the remote hosts that regularly submit, or try to submit, spam comments massively. Grep-ing the logs is no fun at all, so I wrote a small BASH script to do the dirty work for me. Well, this one was written…

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