Introduction

I wanted to take screenshots of about 15 Websites, but didn't want to install any plugins as I wouldn't use them often. I saw a lot of how-to's using import from Imagemagick but they capture the whole screen, not clearly what I was looking for.

Using chromium, xwininfo (from X) and import, I made this bash script which captures only the webpage. See below for the Source code.

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After my second hard disk started failing, I really thought about moving my +11000 pictures to my young main hard disk, BUT, also keep all my favorites, tags, comments in F-spot.

F-Spot

So here's how I did it:
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I'm now using Byobu (earlier known as screen-profiles, but changed to Byobu) everytime I ssh into one of my servers:

[local]$ ssh myserver
Last login: Thu Aug 13 11:03:58 2009 from ...
[remote]$ byobu -R

Byobu can be seen as a replacement for the "screen" command, though it is not really a replacement; It should be seen much like an addon or a plugin. It can also be used locally without ssh (I just find it useful with ssh). It shows very useful information (about the computer where screen/byobu is running) and acts just like screen, same commands (though it adds some more keybindings). See screenshot above.
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Grep is a very useful tool in the Unix world. If you don't know it already, it is very much like a search tool. It can search for a text or pattern in one or multiple input files or data coming from (unix) pipes.

Most of the Linux distributions out there offer three ways to use Grep from the command-line (aka terminal): grep, fgrep, and egrep.
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