ImageMagick book
MythTV book
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Fri, 04 Jan 2008
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Historical revisionism
Hi. I am dropping the technorati and icerocket tags from all blog posts here. Both sites seem largely irrelevant now, and I'm not so fond of how these forms of tagging give those two sites lots of incoming links. This change will affect all posts both past and future, because of the way this site is generated. You should notice the tags go away over the next hour or so.
Tags for this post: site( )
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Sun, 08 May 2005
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Sat, 02 Apr 2005
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Sorry for futzing with the RSS feed so much recently
I want to get my RSS feed just right for some stuff I have lined up for a couple of weeks from now. To do that I needed RSS 2.0, enclosures, commenting, and more posts in my feed. All of that is done now and I think I'm pretty much ready to go... Sorry for any inconvenience.
Technorati tags for this post: site rss feed
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Mon, 28 Mar 2005
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Comments turned on!
Well, it's more that I've written code to implement them now. After listening to Robert Scoble's couch, I've finally gotten around to writing the code to implement comments here. I wrote custom code because the site is generated statically to help handle the load, and it was easier this way.
Technorati tags for this post: site blog comments
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Sat, 11 Sep 2004
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New site look and feel
So, welcome to the new site look and feel. I've transitioned to generating the entire site via Blosxom as a bit of an experiment. We'll see how we go. There are quite possibly broken links still -- I'm running a link validator as we speak which will help me fix those...
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Thu, 15 Apr 2004
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Panda 0.5.4 released
(Evan has taken over maintaining Panda, although I will be dropping in from time to time to add code still)
Subject: [panda-development] Panda-0.5.4 Released
Date: Monday 12 April 2004 11:28 pm
From: Evan Nemerson
To: panda-development@lists.sourceforge.net, panda-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Hi everyone,
I've just released Panda-0.5.4 via Savannah and SourceForge. I will make an
announcement via Freshmeat as soon as the files are available via stillhq.com
The release can currently be downloaded from:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/panda
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/panda
As you may already be aware, the most important change in 0.5.4 is that the
library is now available under the terms of either the GPL or LGPL (your
choice). In order to accomplish this, the TDB code was removed, and either
Enlightenment DB or Berkeley DB (version 4) must be linked to in its place.
Other changes include the addition of link annotations (internal and
external), pkg-config support, and an RPM. The main point of this release,
however, was the licensing issue.
The time has begun to begin thinking about the next release of Panda, and
though I do not have a time frame, I do have a few features I'd like to
implement:
* Improved font handling, using FreeType. I would like to be able to embed
and use arbitrary fonts, supporting line and page wrapping of text boxes.
* Support XMP metadata, noteably Creative Commons licensing data.
* Bindings for different languages, such as PHP, Python, etc.
* Comprehensive documentation, using DocBook XML
* Stronger Windows support
If you have any other ideas you would like to see integrated within the
library, please send a message to panda-development@lists.sourceforge.net
The files for this release can be found at:
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004
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Announcing the first version of mcachefs
mcachefs is a simple caching filesystem for Linux using FUSE. It works by copying the file that
you asked for when the file is opened, and then using that copy for all subsequent
requests for the file. This is really a fairly naive approach to caching, and will be
improved in the future. It's good enough for now though.
mcachefs needs two filesystems to operate. The target filesystem is the slow filesystem
you want to cache accesses to, and the backing filesystem is where mcachefs can stash
stuff which it has copied. The backing filesystem should therefore be on local disc, or
the whole point of the exercise is gone.
It is also assumed that the target filesystem is read only for now.
Installing:
You'll need FUSE, so your best bet is to go up a directory level, and then type:
./configure
make
make install
(That last step needs to be done as root of course).
Using:
mcachefs looks for a config file to determine where the target and backing filesystems
are located, as well as a debugging verbosity level. mcachefs looks in the following
locations for it's config file (in this order):
- /etc/mcachefs
- ~/.mcachefs
- `pwd`/mcachefs.cfg
The format of the config file is something along the lines of:
/cache/backing /backing
/cache/target /
/cache/verbose 99
Note that the two columns must be separated by tabs for the config file to parse
properly. This config section above says that we have a cached filesystem to mount at
/cache. The backing store is /backing, the target store is /, and we want to be _very_
verbose. Lower numbers are less verbose. Please note that being very verbose might help
with debugging mcachefs, but _will_ slow down the filesystem.
You can now mount the cached filesystem but doing a:
mcachefs /cache
This program wont terminate... If you kill it, the filesystem will unmount. Don't do
that. Use umount instead. I have making mcachefs daemonise on the todo list, so don't
bother reporting it as a bug please.
Known bugs:
The only known bug at the moment is that if the program which is opening a large file
terminateds before the cached copy has been generated, then a bus error occurs in
mcachefs. I'm looking into that now.
So, I came up with this great patch:
Email me at mikal@stillhq.com
New code?
You can find the latest version of the code at http://www.stillhq.com/extracted/fuse, and http://www.stillhq.com/extracted/fuse.tgz
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aus-dotnet list archives
So, there's an Australian list for dotNet developers, but I couldn't find an archive of it. So I made one. The archive isn't updated in real time at the moment, but it's good enough for searching and stuff like that.
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Sun, 07 Dec 2003
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003
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Panda is now available under the GPL and the LGPL
The next release of Panda, which is imminent, is released under both the GPL, and the LGPL, which will make it much easier for some users to use the code...
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003
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Mon, 11 Aug 2003
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Mandocs included in linux kernel 2.6.0-test3
The mandocs patch from myself has been included in kernel 2.6.0-test3. Sample man pages are here.
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Sun, 20 Jul 2003
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Command line image procesing article Slashdotted
 Graphics Tricks from the Command Line |
Posted by
michael
on Thursday July 17, @11:36AM
from the thumbnails-galore dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There's nothing quite like command-line tools for handling large batches of tasks, and image manipulations are no exception. Web developers and administrators will appreciate the ability to handle large numbers of files easily, either at the command line or in scripts. This article presents the ImageMagick suite, a Linux toolkit for sizing, rotating, converting, and otherwise manipulating images, in a huge number of formats, whether one or a hundred at a time."
And before you ask, no, I'm not the anonymous reader...
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Sat, 28 Jun 2003
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usblogdump Released
In the words of the annoucement email:
To: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Announce] Linux command line Snoopy Pro logfile dumper
I had two maths exams last week. This of course means that I had to find
something to distract me. That thing was whipping up a SnoopyPro logfile
dumper for the command line. This was motivated by generalised frustration
with the SnoopyPro user interface.
For those wondering, SnoopyPro is a Source Force hosted USB traffic dumper
for Windows. It's useful when reverse engineering USB device drivers.
This version of the dumper only implements the URB types which I
immediately needed. Adding additional URBs isn't hard, but I didn't have
any samples. Feel free to mail me usblogs, and I'll add them to the
decoder.
The only really cool feature in this version is that it implements
"repeated URB sequence suppression", so if the Windows driver says to the
USB device "hey, you still there" every second for 60 seconds, and there
is no other traffic between the machine and that device, then the output
will only show one of those interactions, and let you know it hid 59 more.
This feature can be turned on and off with the -r command line option.
You can get the GPL'ed CVS version of the source code from:
http://www.stillhq.com/extracted/usblogdump.tgz
There is sample output et cetera at:
http://www.stillhq.com/cgi-bin/getpage?area=usblogdump
The next step is to modify the display of the URBs so that they're closer
to the Linux data structures.
Cheers,
Mikal
--
Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) | Stage 1: Steal underpants
http://www.stillhq.com | Stage 2: ????
UTC + 10 | Stage 3: Profit
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Tue, 10 Jun 2003
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PandaScript 0.5 Released
PandaScript 0.5 has been released. PandaScript 0.4 was skipped to keep the version numbers inline with Panda. The cool bit about this release is that PandaScript is now automatically generated by Objectify, which means it should always be up to date with the latest Panda version. You can download the latest source from here and a signature from here.
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Objectify 0.3
Objectify 0.3 can now generate command line interfaces based on a flex lexer, and a yacc grammar. Sorta cool. You can grab the sourcecode from here and a signature from here.
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Thu, 29 May 2003
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Panda 0.5.3 Release
This version has heaps of bug fixes, as well as a compilation fix.
Source (with examples)
(signed)
Source
(without examples)
(signed)
Source
(with MS Windows stuff)
(signed)
Quite big
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mandocs and mandocs_install
This is the announcement email I sent to LKML:
Hey,
this patch adds two new targets to the 2.5 makefiles -- mandocs, and
mandocs_install. The targets require two new perl scripts in the scripts/
directory, but in return we get a series of man pages for kernel
functions, which are installed in man section 9. This is a good thing, as
many programmers expect documentation to be available with man, and
hunting through various PS or PDF documents to find the documentation for
the function you want can be quite frustrating.
The man pages are just extracted from the various existing DocBook SGML
documents, which are generated by kernel-doc. You also need to have
docbook2man installed on your machine.
Note that the two scripts (makeman and split-man) need executable
permissions, and I couldn't work out how to make this happen in a mere
diff. Also please note the formatting is not perfect, but I will tweak
other stuff later with further patches -- this is just an initial
implementation.
Sample output (HTMLised) can be found at
http://www.stillhq.com/linux/mandocs/2.5.70/
Linus, please consider applying.
Thanks,
Mikal
The patch can be found here, and the sample output is here.
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Wed, 28 May 2003
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Libmplot 0.6.1
This release fixes a couple of minor problems with the library.
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A Ruby wrapper for Panda
I was catching up on my email backlog today, and discovered that there is a Ruby wrapper for Panda. Cool, although a little out of date now...
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Graphics Tricks from the Command Line