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There is no problem too large or small that can't be made much worse through the misapplication of Perl scripting. But when properly applied, Perl can make your tasks simpler and can turn the mundane into, well it'll still be mundane but at least it will be done faster. This ...

After you've become accustomed to using GIMP, you'll find that it is a VERY powerful tool for making your photos picture perfect. If you've every tried to take a family photo with several children, I'm sure you've wished you could replace one child's face from one photo to another. This ...

This presentation outlines using the gconf-editor and underlying gconftool-2 for simplyfying UI customizations in GNOME. The amazing thing about the GNOME desktop is the ability to customize nearly every aspect of your UI. This presentation will outline how to customize "hidden" features of GNOME as well as automating bulk customizations.

OpenOffice.org is a full office productivity suite containing word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database applications. Join us for this session as we highlight and demonstrate the latest innovative features, collaborative capabilities, and interoperability opportunities that are available today and in the near future. Those who use OpenOffice will find ...

BZFlag is a great 3D tank battle game maintained by Tim Riker, a local programmer extraordinaire. Feel free to read up, see screenshots and even start practicing using the http://bzflag.org website. This tournament is meant to be family friendly. While anyone is welcome to attend, please be considerate and friendly ...

* Overview on using Open Source technologies to power In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) systems. * Discuss the differences between IVI software and other mobile software. * Discuss the core features: "What can you do with Open Source in the car"?

This presentation would cover how to make a screencasts under Linux using Kdenlive. It would go over the actual capturing of the video itself, the voice-over recording, transitions, and rendering out to a file. This presentation will also be useful for anyone wanting to learn how to do general video ...

One of the latest trends in the market is appliances. Recently at Novell they have released a web based appliance builder, Suse Studio. Suse Studio makes it really easy to quickly create and share your software with the world using the latest openSUSE or SLE. It allows one to customize ...

If you're looking for data on or for your business you can likely find sources online that will blow your mind. How can you effectively tap into the wellspring of data flowing through the tubes into your business or home? In this presentation we'll take a quick look at the ...

ffmpeg is an amazing suite of command-line tools and program APIs for working with images, audio and video data. Whether you're converting a DVD video to a format compatible with a portable media player, extracting the audio from video data, or just learning the specifics of a particular multimedia file, ...

Everyone wants to hop onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, but who in their right mind wants to spend hours trying to figure out the funny quirks of the many browsers out there? Google has already managed to write some amazing AJAX-based applications, and they have opened up their toolkit so ...

Digium's Switchvox is an advanced PBX based on the open source Asterisk project. This presentation will cover the deployment of a Switchvox PBX at a local Utah business with over 150 phones. You will find out the reasons why they were looking for a new PBX, and the features that ...

Keep your kids or employees from accessing undesirable web content. We'll configure a dd-wrt Linux-based router, combined with another server, to do content filtering on all web traffic on your home or office network. The configuration demonstrated is for a transparent proxy, which requires no configuration on the client computers. ...

So, you’ve been using git in your projects. It’s crazy fast, you’re able to create and switch branches in the blink of an eye, and already you’re liking it better than any other VCS (version control system) you’ve ever used. But… if that’s all you do with git, did you ...

The promise of Open Source seems like free software for everyone, but there is a lot more to it than that. We'll cover a quick history of the Open Source movement, the definitions of "free" and enjoy a laugh at ourselves in the process. OUTLINE: I.It's all IBM's fault, not ...

I would like to introduce beginners to HDR photography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging using the digital cameras they already have, and open source software. We will touch on both how to take the source images, as well as how to create a final HDR image. Users will be encouraged to bring their cameras ...

Part of any business, whether using proprietary technologies or those that are Open, is keeping costs down. Clustering in environments share shared disk storage or network-enabled disk storage is required can make this tricky due to the expense associated with Fibre Channel. iSCSI is a technology that has been around ...

Often people have come to me with kids and wanted me to build a family computer. This presentation will focus around ideas and software in the Free and Open Source world which are centered around children and education. This presentation will include Linux distributions, games and educational software geared specifically ...

Many people/organizations appreciate simplicity when hosting virtual servers in the cloud. However, when those servers go down, or become inaccessible the simple explanation is not enough. If you are deploying virtual servers or just thinking about it you may want spend some additional time looking at ways you can make ...

Now that you're well skilled in GIMP, it's time to give yourself a Digital Diet. This session will cover techniques for making yourself look thinner, sleeker and maybe even a little taller. Covered in this session: Fuzzy Selection (Magic Wand), iWarp Tool, Clone Tool and Scale Tool If you have ...

I will be discussing three topics regarding password security on Unix-like machines, including BSD, GNU/Linux and even Mac OS X. This presentation is targeted towards system administrators mainly, but can be of major benefit to end users. The first topic will be demonstrating the minimal effort it takes to gain ...

It seems that more and more geeks are discovering a fascination with cooking. Whether you're a geek that lives to cook or just cooks to live, Object Oriented Cooking is for you! Geek chef Joseph Hall will show you how smaller recipes can become objects, ready to be included on ...

This presentation will discuss the Open Source program mythtv, and will cover the following topics: *What is mythtv, and why should my wife care? *What parts do I need to build a functioning mythtv system? *I have the parts, now where do I get the software (and how do I ...

OfflineIMAP, a "tool to simplify your e-mail reading", has spread like fire through the free software community in making email reading faster, more reliable, and a lot more usable. In this presentation, a tutorial for getting started with OfflineIMAP and using it with Evolution, KMail, and Mutt will be presented, ...

There are many aspects to managing an RDBMS. Some of these are handled by an experienced DBA, but there are a good many things that any sys admin should be able to take care of if they know what to look for. This presentation will cover basics of managing Postgres, ...

I will show you how to setup a FreeNAS server. I will demonstrate how to setup a Samba and NFS share. From OS install to sharing it takes about 15-20 minutes I will also breifly demonstrate the ability of FreeNAS to create a samba, NFS, iTunes, SSH, and other types ...

The Boardgame bash is a tradition! Each year at the end of the conference, we gather and play boardgames until we're too tired to play any more. It's nice to gather and talk and discuss the cool presentations and events from the weekend. Everyone is invited to attend. Generally, after ...