Resizing images
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:21:55 -0500
I'm trying to resize some images in a directory to have a height of 700.
I thought the imagemagick 'convert' would do it, so I did:
for files in *.jpg; do convert -resize x700 $files; done
but I got:
convert: missing an image filename `img_1385.jpg' @
wand/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2710
for each imag ...
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Beating libtool into submission
Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:00:04 +0100
I'm trying to rebuild the newest version of sane-backends and have run up
against an error from libtool
+ make
cd . && /bin/sh /home/srowe/rpmbuild/BUILD/sane-
backends-1.0.20/iscan-2.10.0/missing --run aclocal-1.9 -I m4
configure.ac:200: error: unknown libltdl build type: _LTDL_TYPE
/usr/share/aclocal/ltdl.m ...
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thunderbird has lost some articles how to re-get/restore them
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:49:05 +0100
I follow the comp.lang.verilog newsgroup. Around the 28th september I
stopped getting news articles. My news supplier is gradwell. I deleted
all newsgroup filters with no effect. After doing offline->Download/sync
now on all of the newsgroups I subscribe to I have started to get
newsgroup articles. News is beh ...
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MP3 players
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:46:50 +0100
It surprisingly difficult to find out if Real Physical MP3 players
(e.g. Sony Walkpersons or Idiotpods) with USB connections will work with
Linux. Googling just gives a selection of Linux software MP3 capable
players no matter how hard I try.
In general do USB MP3 players appear as USB storage? I've never owned ...
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Re: what is the difference between "tsu", "su" and "sudo"?
Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:43:33 -0700 (PDT)
On Sep 27, 4:11?am, Nix <nix-razor-...@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2009, Ian Northeast said:
>
> > There is also sux, found in many distros, which is like su but also passes
> > on the X credentials, useful if you need to run anything graphical as root.
>
> This is presumably obsolete now that we have pam_ ...
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Map keyboard key to middle mouse button
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:39:46 +0100
How would one go about mapping a redundant key on the keyboard [eg Windows
key] to a click/release of the middle mouse button?
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Re: what is the difference between "tsu", "su" and "sudo"?
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:34:48 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:03:20 +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:
> Su is the traditional tool for an administrator who knows the root
> password to gain temporary root access. Sudo is normally used to grant
> other users who do not know the root password the authority to execute
> certain defined commands with root auth ...
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Re: what is the difference between "tsu", "su" and "sudo"?
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:03:20 +0100
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:19:52 -0700, JJ wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I needed to ask a question about the Linux commands used for getting root
> access.
>
> The question is, what is the difference between "tsu", "su", and "sudo"?
>
> I am mainly interested about the "tsu" command regarding which there seems
> to b ...
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Re: what is the difference between "tsu", "su" and "sudo"?
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:26:49 GMT
JJ <santa@temporaryinbox.com> writes:
>Hi all
>I needed to ask a question about the Linux commands used for getting
>root access.
>The question is, what is the difference between "tsu", "su", and
>"sudo"?
Never heard of tsu. Not on my system.
>I am mainly interested about the "tsu" command regarding w ...
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Recommendations for eye candy distro
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all,
Usually I groan whenever I see someone asking what is the best Linux
distro, and now I find myself doing it!
To make things a bit easier though, some stuff to give you some hints:
Must have compiz
come with a media player which will play DVDs (I don't mind having to
download the codecs provided its ...
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