I just had the need to take a GIMP XCF file and create several different types of output images from it: PNG File JPEG File Resize to thumbnail in JPEG format 2x2 Tiled PNG with black and white borders Using the Imagemagick and xcftools you can do it all via the...
Just installed Bluefish for Windows and let it take control of alot of the files that you might want to edit including .VBS files (Visual Basic Script). After which I got the following error: C:\Users\myusername\Desktop>cscript DownloadAndConvert.vbs Microsoft (R)...
Recently updated my Cygwin install on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Workstation. Tried to run startxdmcp.bat and got a Cygwin X error - failed to activate core devices Looking in /var/log/XWin.0.log showed nothing obvious as to why the X server failed to start. Ran Cygwin...
I don't do a lot of programming, and the languages I use are all interpreted (Perl, VBS, Kix, PHP) and not compiled. So people can easily see the mess I make of code. But I do like to know, at least, how to do things correctly. With regard to Javascript there are many...
I un-installed all the hplip packages on the box from the Software Manager to start with. Then I followed the instructions here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/linuxmint.html You definately need the latest hplip tarball. (I used...
Just did something stupid with my home system: Started an update from Ubuntu 10.10 to the development version of the new 11.04 using update-manager -d. Saw the `don't use this on a production system' warning and ignored it, and pulled the trigger on the update. Then I...
The default command on lubuntu-desktop for ALT-PrintScreen and PrintScreen dump the file in $HOME On my Fedora 20 LXDE install there are no preconfigured screen shot options. So the following needs to be added to the openbox config xml. Before you start install scrot...
Remember the old grub? When you could just go into /boot/grub/menu.lst (on Debianesque OS's) or /boot/grub/grub.conf (on Redhatian OS's) and edit & save the file raw. Those days are gone the new grub version 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3 on Ubuntu 10.10 is now fully...
Problem: Just transferring data from RH ES 3.0 to RH ES 5.6 and while testing a cron script it failed complaining about missing uuencode The fix: yum install sharutils
I finally have a twitter account jmcd73. Not sure what it does. Just playin' really