Plantagenet Penguinista

OK, so I was a Lego® kid... Problem: a LibreOffice Writer document (pasted in from from a web page a while ago) has the original URL in every footnote link... which doesn’t make for such an enjoyable off-line reading experience after has been PDFed. If this was an MS-Word document?   “Raise hands in air, exit stage left, screaming...” However, we are dealing with Free/OpenSource Software here, so... fire up Konsole... cd Documents mkdir XYZZY cd XYZZY unzip ../original_document.odt vi content.xml :s_originalURLuptothehash__g ZZ zip ../new_document.odt $(find .) rm -rf XYZZY Done. The document new_document now has the URLs sans host & path ( http://www.frednurk.ufo/in/this/dir/filename.htm#65535 becomes #65535 ).

So... a DVD needed a prequel video by way of brief introduction... what to do? The basic problem solving process is to break a problem down & solve each smaller piece separately, so... Using GIMP , annotate a brief set of explicatory slides. Using Imagination , turn those slides into a silent video clip. Using Audacity , record a narration while the slideshow video clip is playing. Select a no-speaking part of that recording, axe all of the noise. Using tiMIDIty , fabricate some gentle classic background music. Using SoX , fade the music in, blend it with the narration, fade it out at the end. Using avconv (part of libav ), tack the resulting sound-stream onto the silent video clip. Using DeVeDe , morph that & the main video clips into a standard video DVD. Every single byte of that is FOSS . Total cost of entire production: $0. Some selfish sucker will find a way to botch this system. It works too well for the Pagan god Murphy to avoid interfering with.