Self-hatred

Posts Tagged ‘bash’

prep

For reasons-reasons other than convenience-that I would not be able to fully articulate should you choose to put a gun to my head, I store my website’s files (WordPress), database and content images separately. I guess if one’s data centre is bombed then the other two will be okay? Well, back to the convenience. I [...]

There are some things netbooks can’t do…

[mark][2010-05-21] # ls *.cr2 | wc -l # How many Canon raw files are there in this folder? 141 [mark][2010-05-21] # for file in *.cr2; do ufraw-batch –out-type=jpg –compression=100 –out-depth=8 $file; done # Convert them all to .jpg. Gee-up, laptop! I’ll be AFK for the next two hours.

PTSD

Oh gods, but what a horrible flashback to my early Linux days and my nightmares of dependency hell. Package A would require package B. Package B would require package C. It was one of the things that drove me away from Linux during my first The proliferation of Linux package managers – Portage, Aptitude, Pacman, [...]

Another round of webcam

Shut up. Shut. Up. I’m happy with the time-lapse solution, and its control mechanism. What I want to do now something slightly different: Single images. On my webserver. Right now I have a system that puts up a new capture every ~10 seconds or so on cheeze.bhalash.com as webcam1-current.jpg, along with a semi-permanent Dropbox-hosted archive. [...]