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Meet IT industry analyst Dan Kusnetzky (video)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:00:00 GMT
Dan Kusnetzky is one of the people you see quoted all over the place, especially about GNU/Linux and its effect on the computing world. But not many people (as a percentage of the world's total population) have had a chance to sit down with Dan and learn who he is in any kind of personal sense, so one day I lugged my video gear to Dan's home office in Osprey, Florida, and handed him a microphone. He spoke for 19 minutes, which is an awfully long time for an Internet "get to know you" piece, but since Dan's opinions have been known to sway industry perceptions (and some IT companies' stock prices) more than you'd think possible for an individual, I'm running the whole thing here, because some of what Dan has to say is important to management and business types who need to know how the open source segment of the IT industry has gotten to where it is today, and where it may go in the near future.

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NAME
xscreensaver-getimage-video - put a video frame on the root window SYNOPSIS
xscreensaver-getimage-video [-display host:display.screen] [--verbose] [--stdout] DESCRIPTION
The xscreensaver-getimage-video program is a helper program for the xscreensaver hacks that manipulate images. Specifically, it is invoked by xscreensaver-getimage(1) as needed. This is not a user-level command. This program grabs a random frame of video from the system's video input, and then loads it on the root window. It does this by figuring out which frame-grabbing programs are installed on the system, and invoking the first one it finds. Then it runs xscreensaver-getim- age-file(1) to load that image onto the root window. OPTIONS
xscreensaver-getimage-video accepts the following options: --verbose Print diagnostics. --stdout Instead of loading the image onto the root window, write it to stdout as a PBM file. SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1), xscreensaver-demo(1), xscreensaver-getimage(1), xscreensaver-getimage-file(1), bttvgrab(1), qcam(1), streamer(1), atitv(1), vidtomem(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 14-Apr-01 X Version 11 5.15 (28-Sep-2011) xscreensaver-getimage-video(1)