By inadvertance I used ‘save’ instead of ‘multipage’ in Xsane. So I have now 15 jpeg, one for each page, when I wanted one single .pdf file (to upload to Scribd).
Dont worry, Google is your friend: to create a PDF document using all the jpg files in the current directory with imagemagick, use:
convert *jpg allinone.pdf[Thanks linux.com, via linuxuser32]
Archives de catégorie : Internet
A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia
Last night a distro saved my life…
This is how you find out how the open-source economic system works.
My ubuntu 6.10 ‘Edgy Eft’ stalled. I suspected a Firefox memory leak, not a good guess as I had recently upgraded to 2.0.0.1 (and recovered the fox logo, thanks to the mozilla foundation). A quick Google told me that this was not the case, but I suffered from the « upgrade to edgy and hibernate swap uuid problem ». A quick nano /fstab to recover my swap uuid, copy/paste in /etc/instramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, followed by update-inistramfs -u -k $(uname -r) did the trick (well, it’s all described in French ubuntu wiki).
Alas, poor Yorik, my machine refused to restart on reboot.
NO sweat, I rebooted, fschk kicked in, solved a few (!) issues… and made my day !
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Conclusions:
- Imagine THAT with another OS…
- When they say that some distros are for geek only, it is true. I am lucky to have installed a flavor with plenty of autodetect fs checks at bootup AND a huge userbase which contributes to many forums & howtos
- I use Ubuntu since 5.04, after some tries at Knoppix, Easylinux and Debian (yes, in that order). I never gave a dime to anybody (well, free as in beer also…). Because I didn’t feel why I should. This is probably a cultural issue with us multicultural expats, never at ease in our country (another story…). Now I know why I will donate. Donate few, donate often, donate to many. To wikipedia, to ubuntu, to EFF, to whoever gives to the community without expecting the community to give back, but who still has a life to live, kids to feed, house to pay…
CSS techniques
Pre-Wordpress era CSS techniques papers were lying around in my office. Turned out they were printouts of old (?!) webpages dating back to when I had more easily access to a printer than to Internet. I shredded them yesterday, but here’s the list:
- Fast Rollovers Without Preload
- /* Position Is Everything */ (Modern browser bugs explained in detail) : IE5.5/win phantom box bug
- Tantek : Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions
- TagSoup : Fixed Positioning for Windows Internet Explorer
- CSS-discuss Wiki : Box Model Hack
- CSS Hub : Alternate Box Model Hacks
- Douglas Bowman’s Stopdesign : Background-Image to Replace Text (now considered obsolete F.I.R. technique)
- Eric Meyer : Minimal Markup, Surprising Style, Style With Substance
The funniest part was that today, all those pages are still on-line.
Minty Boost
hack a day : Minty Boost, AA based USB charger –
S1mp3
S1mp3 is a line of mp3/mp4 players sold under many brand names. It seems very easy to hack and full of promising features (including Show to add/change a memory chip, a via hack-a-day‘ed hack). There is a S1mp3 Wiki with tips to how identify a S1mp3
Save pages as images w/ Firefox
- Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format. Options let you control whether images are saved at full size (which is the default) or scaled down to a smaller size. The Page Saver extension uses the new canvas feature that was introduced in Firefox 1.5.
- How to Capture & Save Screenshots of Webpages
- ScreenGrab 0.8!
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Firewall BKAC
(between keyboard & chair)
Entendu sur BFM ce matin (reprise de thèses écrites ailleurs) : Anne Dorange, médiatique directrice générale de Surf Control : La protection anti-virus passe par une éducation des usagers (dans l’entreprise), crénau sur lequel sa société se positionne. A fait un parallèle avec code de la route : « il ne suffit pas de conduire pour prendre le volant »; « il y a 40 ans on laissait un enfant seul traverser la route, aujourd’hui il faut l’éduquer et surveiller ».
Hamachi : Stay Connected
With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication.
How’d I Get Here (Firefox extension)
How’d I Get Here (high)? is a Firefox extension that allows you to go to the page on which you first clicked a link to the current page. say, for example, you want to go « back » even after opening a link in a new tab and closing the original tab, or you want to remember how you found a site you bookmarked yesterday, or better if you are sent a link you have already seen, you can astound the sender by responding with a statement more precise than « I saw that on some blog a few days ago ».