This is a very quick script to resize all files of type jpg to 1024x1024 (longest edge becomes 1024 pixels) and name them "1024-originalfile name.jpg" using ImageMagick for Windows Open a command prompt and cd into the folder containing your jpg's and run the...
I was reading some Dell promo stuff talking about intel vPro technology which gives the ability to boot a remote computer which has been shutdown as long as it's got a network connection and power to the motherboard. Amazing stuff. And having it would mean you can...
I have just returned to using subversion for my work related documentation. The reasons: subversion in comparison to git allows you to easily check out 1 directory in the repository and then re-commit that back as needed. (because each directory in a subversion...
If you are churning from one DSL supplier to another with a line speed change make sure you are getting the new line speed. I failed to check that I had indeed gotten the requested line speed change and only discovered it due to complaints of slowness. Shows you what...
Since installing Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 I have had a problem with my Intel embedded graphics card not being able to play video. Mplayer Error Message: "X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)" Discover your Video Chipset: lspci -nn | grep VGA My Video...
Get the imapsync utility at https://fedorahosted.org/imapsync/ This was a successful attempt to copy all my email from my old dovecot powered server up to gmail using imapsync imapsync --host1 10.11.12.13 \ --authmech1 LOGIN \ --port1 993 \ --ssl1 \ --user1...
My sister is running a web design business. The reason I'm doing a post is that she is using Joomla as the CMS and leveraging many OSS plugins. It's amazing how good Opensource Software has become in the last year or so. Professional results for minimal outlay and no...
Squid outage fail-over If you run wccp through a Cisco router and your Squid Cache falls over the router will fail over to serving pages directly. Seamless fail-over is good but So you may never notice that your Squid proxy has stopped responding. So you lose the...
I've been using wxGlade to create wxPerl interfaces. This is a sample of how to get one subroutine to handle multiple keys. Clicking any key allows the subroutine to return the label text of which key has been pressed. Pressing a key will give a Wx::MessageBox I...
I was experimenting with restricting multi-user linux boxes. A few days later trying to run QCAD with the above security settings threw this error: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied QCAD froze. I had to go back to...