Make thumbnails with Imagemagick

Make thumbnails and resize images in Linux with Imagemagick

First, install image magick
apt-get install imagemagick

Next, switch to directory with pictures collection
cd ~/pictures

Make thumbnails of your pictures with Imagemagick
mkdir thumbs
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs -I {} echo convert {} -resize 100x100 "thumbs/{}" \; | bash

Done

Debian Kubuntu missing XMMS

While I have been used to play music under Linux in XMMS I was really missing it. After looking up for a while I realised that the original project was ascended by Audacious. Solution is simple...

apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins audacious-dumb audacious-plugins-extra audtty

Note that the original XMMS development was stopped and is no longer supported. Therefore it is a good ideal to look for another player until you really want original xmms. Partial list of alternatives includes:

Amarok, Vlc, Bmp

Sources: Linux.com - AnewMoorning