Windows Easy Transfer Companion
Nice beta from Microsoft. This lets you move settings and applications from XP to Vista.
ITIL update
I passed the ITIL v2 Managers exams. Just missed a distinction on the Service Support – that’s the slightly sad part.
Otherwise good news.
ITIL v2 Managers results
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.
It’s Christmas
I’ve been a-dancin’ around the house with the kids – Pogues on the speakers.
ImageMagick and batch files
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.
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