Tools and Software

Found this on a forum. Very useful in converting Tiffs to PDF.


tiff2ps -h 8.5 -w 11 *.tif > tiffs.ps
ps2pdfwr -g7920x6120 tiffs.ps


(Quite handy - and you can even go ahead to shrink the two commands to one).

for A in *.jpg; do convert $A $A.png; done
rename -v 's/\.jpg.png$/.png/' *.jpg.png

This, on GNU/Linux, with [:http://www.imagemagick.org/|imagemagick].

rename -v 's/\.php5$/.php/' *.php5

(the above command renames .php5 to .php in the present folder)

GDM for the rightists?
Not quite, but you could find it useful if you, like me, are not-so-orthodox Hindu who prays to [:http://www.hindunet.org/god/Gods/ganesh/|Ganesha] everyday before starting work.

Thanks to [:http://trixinc.deviantart.com/|Trixinc] for [:http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/10555864/?qo=33&q=by%3Atrixinc&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps|the wonderful wallpaper of Ganapa] that is the heart and soul of this pretty GNOME GDM.

Here's a screenshot of it:

[:http://sampada.net/GDM-GaNapa.tar.gz|Click here to download the package].

What's GDM?: Visit [:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Display_Manager]

Many people have asked me about this, so let me point to this wonderful piece of documentation on Ubuntu Wiki.

[:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/Setup]

and if you're still stuck wondering why GTK IM Module isn't working for you on OpenOffice, there's [:http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/gtk_gnome/why_i_can_not_input_with_scim_under_openoffice_oo|another] [:http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation/installation_and_configuration/all/system_configuration|wonderful piece of documentation] for you.

For some new hardware I bought recently, I was almost lost in a maze recompiling the kernel and applying patches for SATA (libata) until I found out that the AMD-Xeon kernel on the Ubuntu repositories work just fine for Pentium-D processor.

Looking around for some good Open source payroll software for a friend of mine, I came across this personal finance management tool by name [:http://www.grisbi.org/|Grisbi].

It is a lot simpler than GnuCash (GnuCash looks heavily bloated and the latest version keeps crashing most times). It also has .QIF file support (although .QIF exported from Paypal didn't work very well). GnuCash files can also be imported into it.