by ezs | Nov 29, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I borrowed a film scanner this week – and I’ve been scanning old (and crappy quality) APS films to TIFF files. The results are pretty good – considering the limitations of APS.
Here’s the stunning Taj Mahal, Agra, India taken in August 2001.
I needed to convert around 2000 TIFF files to something that was useful on the photo album – JPEG. I decided on ImageMagick – it’s open source, free and really comprehensive.
I love ImageMagick – it’s a core part of the image resizing and conversion for my online photo albums.
I wrote a one line batch file for Windows to do the conversion:
for %%f in (*.tif) do c:progra~1imagem~1.7-qconvert %%f %%~nf.jpg
Nice use of the macro – the %%~nf will strip the filename out of the full filename %%f. Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 2003 server allow this – HELP FOR gives the full detail; it’s buried quite deep.
by ezs | Nov 28, 2007 | ITIL, Uncategorized
I’m in Provo for a couple of days – sitting on an ITIL v3 Foundation course.
The main reason – it’s a cheap and convenient way to sit the exam..
I can’t sit the electronic exam at Prometric in Utah until the New Year. If I was in London I could do it today. Strange how electronically delivered tests take so long to roll out.
by ezs | Nov 22, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Who said Solaris admins are bearded, 280 lbs and over 50?
by ezs | Nov 19, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I was at the Novell Global Sales Conference in Orlando, FL all of last week.
Final evening – Saturday – we had the final wrap ups and call to action; followed by Dan Clark – the motivational speaker.
He was actually pretty good; and did well making his time personal to Novell and the audience.
Later that evening I was talking to my friend Rick Fowles – and mentioned that Dan made a funny Northern Ireland joke. Rick just grinned and said – “I know – I did my mission with him in Belfast”.
Small world. Proving Six Degrees of seperation is true once more.
by ezs | Nov 10, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Everyone is on Facebook now. Even Grania!
I joined ages ago – but I concentrated on LinkedIn for the business connections.
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