Tag Archive for Linux

Le Pant..

September 29, 2009 Fun Crap I did on a weekend!, Move your ass to Open Source No comments

Scanning for the “Rometo Family Picture Project” is done.

So around-ish February.. when I was full on Florida.. we asked Sydney’s folks to give us the huge box of unorganized photos they have so I could scan them and put them online.

The task was daunting.. but here is how I overcame: Batch scanning. I used Linux, or course, and scanned the full width and breadth of my scanner at 600 dpi which was it’s max resolution, I later lowered it to 300 since the quality of the scan was beating the quality of the print by a very wide margin.  I’d scan “sets” into X-Sane, then seperate them using Gimp.

I’m happy to say.. that this weekend after months of not really working on it at all.. I completed the scanning part of the project, right now I’m separating the pictures and then they will be available in the Family Gallery.  I’m not entirely certain how many pictures there will be total, but I scanned in about 800 this weekend.

-Todd

More or Less the Absolute Truth

September 21, 2009 Sad Truths No comments

Operating Systems

Dual Screen, Flock, and Me.. making a decision to Use Linux Full Time at home.. sort of.

May 3, 2009 Death To Windows No comments

I’ve installed Linux Mint 6 on my “Monster” which is my fastest PC. It actually dual boots now, Vista 64 and this.. I’ve discovered that using the dual head, which took a bit to get used to, is way different here than i’m used too..

I have 4 virtual monitors on the left, 2 on the Right.. and i can’t move windows between them.. but i think this is neat so.. i think i’ll keep it this way. One of the hurdles to overcome was to install another browser, Firefox tells me it’s open already if I open it in both windows, so I installed Flock! since it’s really just Firefox with some Social stuff on it..

I’ve decided to make this Linux, my only OS at home, except my mac.. comon.. I can’t ditch OSX.. really.

I’ll probably occasionally boot into Vista.. but I’ll do my best not to :)

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