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feisty fawn

Upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop to the latest - 7.04, Feisty Fawn. The upgrade was smooth and easy. For me, upgrading to a newer version is to just have the latest of applications, especially GNOME and Evolution. Looks like there is a bunch of [:http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/704tour|very nice features] on 7.04. If your Firefox rendering of Indic characters (especially Kannada characters) go bonkers yet again, add your default locale back again on /usr/bin/firefox.

Converting and merging TIFF files to PDF

Submitted by hpn on February 23, 2007 - 08:12

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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


$ for f in *.tiff; do convert [options] $f $f.ps; done
$ convert *.ps merged.ps
$ ps2pdf merged.pdf

For the first method, you'll need Ghostscript Utilities installed. For the second, you'll need imagemagick installed.

Converting multiple JPG files to PNG hpn January 24, 2007 - 10:15

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(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].

Renaming multiple files at one go hpn January 10, 2007 - 15:53

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rename -v 's/\.php5$/.php/' *.php5 (the above command renames .php5 to .php in the present folder)

GaNapa GDM hpn January 6, 2007 - 09:09

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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.

Setting SCIM as default Input Method on Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy hpn December 17, 2006 - 12:19

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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…|another] [:http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation/installation_and_configuratio…|wonderful piece of documentation] for you.

Ubuntu on Pentium D processor hpn December 3, 2006 - 08:44

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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.

Edgy is not a smooth ride

Submitted by hpn on November 28, 2006 - 11:42

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