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ITIL v2 Managers results

by | Dec 24, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

The results are in the post. Several people who were on the training sent out a ‘warning’ email saying they were arriving and to watch out for an anonymous looking white envelope.

I guess it’ll take a few extra days to get here.. Still waiting for the ITIL v3 Foundation results too.

This is worse than waiting for A-level results.

ImageMagick and batch files

by | 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.

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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.

ITIL v3 Foundation

by | 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.