Why the manual step?
One of the consequences of buying a new camera is that your current photo processing software may not be fully equipped for the job of handling the images that it creates. This is a particular issue with raw image files and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 was unable to completely handle DNG files made with my [...]
Command Line Software Management
One of the nice things about a Debian-based Linux distribution is that it is easy to pull a piece of software onto your system from a repository using either apt-get or aptitude. Some may prefer to have a GUI but I find that the command line offers certain extra transparency that stops the “what’s it [...]
Out of memory at line: 56
This is an error that I have started to see a lot in the last few weeks. First, it was with Piwik and latterly with WordPress.com Stats. For the record, I have never seen it on up to date systems but always with IE6 and at page unloading time. The CPU usage hits 100% before [...]
Ubuntu upgrades: do a clean installation or use Update Manager?
Part of some recent “fooling” brought on by the investigation of what turned out to be a duff DVD writer was a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on my main home PC. It might have brought on a certain amount of upheaval but it was nowhere near as severe as that following the same sort [...]
Copying only updated and new files
With Linux/UNIX, the command line remains ever useful and allows you to do all manner of things, including file copying that only adds new files to a destination. Here’s a command that accomplishes this in Linux: cp -urv [source] [destination] The u switch does the update while r ensures recursion (by default, cp only copies [...]
A quick way to do an update
Here’s a quick way to get the latest updates on your PC using the command line if you are using Ubuntu or Debian: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Of course, you can split these commands up if you prefer to look before you leap. At the very least least, it’s so much slicker [...]
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