__/ [ Ray Ingles ] on Monday 12 June 2006 13:10 \__
> On 2006-06-12, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Users report Ubuntu Upgrade effortless
>
> The upgrade on my machine was *not* effortless. I bounced around for a
> while until I remembered that the guy who'd set up my computer initially
> had accidentally set one drive to LBA mode and one to CHS. Grub doesn't
> like booting from the CHS drive, so I have to make sure there's a small
> /boot partition on the LBA drive. Once that was set up, it was easy.
>
> (I should finally be getting a DVD burner for Father's Day. Maybe I'll
> back up the CHS drive and reformat it in LBA mode...)
I have about 200 GB of spare space, on a 10MBit connection (up 24/7). If you
want, I can set you up an account to 'scp -r' back and forth. Just let me
know...
> Got a video to make for my cousin's kid's graduation. Lots of photos
> scanned in, now I've gotta get them to 4x3 proportions. ImageMagick and
> the Gimp to the rescue! Finished a bunch last night, hopefully I'll get
> the rest done tonight. Being able to script most of the steps helps a
> lot.
Yes, I know just what you mean. Here's one among several such scripts that I
use:
,----[ Bash ]
| for file in ls *.bmp
| do
| echo ${file}
| convert ${file} -resize 600x400 +profile "*" ${file}.eps
| doen
`----
PixelPlua, which use to come bundled with SuSE (before it became SUSE and got
Genview), has batch processing facilities as well, incorporated into the GUI
as menu items. It's a point-and-click exercise which applies GIMP-like
goodies /en masse/.
Best wishes,
Roy
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