Linux Toys: 13 Cool Projects for Home, Office and Entertainment
by admin on May 1, 2010
Review
“…Linux Format Top Stuff Award…9/10 Lots of ideas for making your machine do cool things…” (Linux Format, February 2004) “…the book was good fun, entertaining and thought provoking…” (Linux Magazine, January 2004)”…Linux Format Top Stuff Award…9/10 Lots of ideas for making your machine do cool things…” — Linux Format, February 2004″…the book was good fun, entertaining and thought provoking…” — Linux Magazine, January 2004
* Christopher Negus is the bestselling author of Red Hat Linux 8 Bible (0-7645-4968-5) and earlier versions, with more than 125,000 copies sold * Readers learn to build sixteen fun and useful devices for home and office, using spare parts and fre [Read More...]
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Always looking for a something cool to tinker with, I found my perfect match in Linux Toys.
My first project this past weekend was to jump to chapter 10 and build the “Digital Receptionist.” Using an unused PC (PII 300, 4GB, 128MB) and an old modem I was able to build the project, and I now get my phone messages from home answered by the machine and emailed to me at work - how cool is that?
There are 12 more projects in the book, and I will probably do the digital video recorder next.
I am not a complete Linux newbie - I have a RH 9 box on my home network, but I am no expert either. However, this is Chris Negus, the same guy that writes the Red Hat Linux Bible (great way to get the CD distro) so I found it very easy to read, and not at all intimidating.
If you have an old PC in the closet, or just like to play with Linux, get this book - it’s a blast.
When I first read this book, I thought,” This is nothing more than a collection of Stuff he pulled off the web.” After going thru it a second time I realised that I never would have thought of most of these projects. If I had thought of them, I would have spent tens of hours serching the web trying to figure out how to do them and downloading te software needed.
If you like to tinker with computers, buy this book. All of the projects are well documented and the included cd has most of the software that is mentioned in the book.
I’m glad I bought it.