December 2007
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Managing JPG and CR2 files
My latest toy is a Canon Digital Rebel XTi, which has the option of shooting in JPG and RAW, or both. I don’t have a lot of use for RAW (CR2 on the XTi) images right now, but I might someday. And with space as cheap as it is, I set the camera to shoot in both. They both end up in the same directory, but only the JPGs show up in GQView on Xubuntu. So, I go through and delete the JPG version...
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Echoing to system files in Ubuntu through sudo
As I was setting up the TrackPoint on my Z60t, I came across a problem: sudo echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/press_to_select bash: /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/press_to_select: Permission denied I found an old message board post that said: That’s because bash tries to redirect the output of ‘sudo echo’ to the /sys/… file, but since...
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LaCie Ethernet Big Disk and Linux
With graduation impending, I wanted to get as much out of college as possible — that is, of media from the local network. I bought a LaCie Ethernet Big Disk because of it’s capacity (1 TB), it’s accessibility (both USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet), and the name of LaCie (I seemed to remember them being good from back in my hardware days. To boot, they claim “full Linux...