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Cygwin GNU Utils as a Work-a-round for Broken Windows 7 Search
Remember in XP when you could press F3 type in the file contents you were searching for and be confident you would be able to find all the files that contained a search term. That is no longer the case. You can dig around the W7 Search menus and tell Windows 7 to...
The 5th Anniversary
They really made her... Perfect. I know. Just had a wonderful anniversary weekend with my Beautiful Wife: Friday Night: Anniversary Dinner at the thevintage.com.au. This is where we had our reception 5 yrs ago. Saturday Night: Chris Isaak concert at...
Managing Dockable Dialogs with GIMP
GIMP is a great program. Once you start using more of it's features you can have a lot of peripheral dialog windows cluttering up your screen. Here is a short video I made on how to combine GIMP dockable dialogs into one dialog box and lay them out so you don't need...
LaTeX – Writing Letters
A good simple howto on writing letters and envelopes using LaTeX. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Letters
Create a CGI directory which allows Directory Listing
I wanted to create a cgi-bin directory which would allow me to execute the files and also to view a directory index of them. This is the default setup for the system cgi-bin directory but it wouldn't allow me to do what I wanted. ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/...
Performing Image Tiling Operations ImageMagick
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...
