Posted in Geekery on Nov 16th, 2009
I wanted to convert some high resolution TIFFs that Lisa took of Bill’s paintings recently and came up with this quick and dirty conversion into JPEG: 1for i in *.tif; do tifftopnm "$i" | pnmtojpeg > "${i%.tif}.jpeg"; done That’ll convert all .tif files in a directory to JPEG (using default processing setting). I didn’t have [...]
Posted in Geekery on Oct 28th, 2009
I’ve had Evolution hang on start up a few times lately, I keep forgetting what I’ve done to fix it so I’m noting it here. All I’ve needed to do is to kill evolution-data-server and try to start Evolution again, so to fix this issue: 1killall evolution-data-server-2.28
Posted in Geekery on Oct 8th, 2009
Apple Remote Desktop allows you to graphically administer remote OS X machines, including OS X Server. Apple uses some custom encryption over the top of the standard VNC protocol so if you are connecting from a Linux client using vncviewer you’ll get the following error message: Server did not offer supported security type To set [...]
Posted in Geekery on Sep 10th, 2009
As a proof of concept, yesterday I moved our Confluence installation to Solaris under VMWare from it’s current home on a Linux box. I won’t go into the background as to why I was doing this (most people would be shocked hearing I would move anything from Linux!) but the reason it was a proof [...]
Posted in Geekery on Aug 7th, 2009
For OpenAustralia DevLive, I wanted the browser to open straight into the local machine’s development instance of the web application. I also wanted to provide a bunch of project related links as bookmarks to make it easy for users to get help or submit bugs. To change the browser start page you need to add [...]
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