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How to create thumbnails for PDFs with ImageMagick on Linux. To create image thumbnails from a PDF. Document, run this in a terminal window:. Convert -thumbnail x300 -background white -alpha remove input file.pdf [. The parameters to convert. Do the following things:. Similar to -resize, but optimized for speed and strips metadata. Make the thumbnail 300px tall, and whatever width maintains the aspect ratio. Sets the thumbnail background to white. Removes the alpha channel from the thumbnail output.

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How to convert FLAC. Files from 24/48 bit to 16 bit on Ubuntu Linux. I recently needed to convert some FLAC. Music files from the increasingly common 48 bit encoding, down to 16 bit at 44100 kHz, so that they’ll play on my Sonos. Here’s how to do it:. If you don’t already have. Installed, do this to install it:. Sudo apt-get install sox. Then run this to do the conversion, in the folder with music in:. Mkdir resampled $ for. Flac in *.flac ;. How to convert Apple Lossless/ ALAC. M4a files to FLAC.

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I finally figured out my mysterious 418/Unused HTTP. A teapot, cut in half. Sort of. Original clipart Kitchen Utensils Silhouette, by GDJ. I’ve had a mysterious broken page on this site for a while - but been too busy to look into it. My Comprehensive Linux Backups with etckeeper &. Article has been refusing to load, and returning a weird HTTP. 418 Unused status code instead. I finally made the time to figure out the cause. It turned out that this was being . How I upgraded this website to Pelican 3.6.

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How I upgraded this website to Pelican 3.6. This site has been generated using Pelican 3.3 for over two years - and I finally found some time to upgrade to the current version of Pelican, 3.6.3. This is how I did the upgrade. I decided to be lazy and do the upgrade in-place, instead of creating a new. And copying the content &. Settings over. Luckily, this worked out OK. After a bit of fiddling around. I also decided, rather cavalierly, to upgrade all the packages . The Better Figures &. And we’ve been h...

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The Better Figures &. Images Pelican plugin now supports Figure Numbering. This figure has automatic figure numbering. I had a feature request for automatic figure numbering, like latex. I was revamping this plugin for Pelican 3.3 anyway - and this didn’t seem too hard - so I decided to add it. So, the Better Figures &. Now supports automatic figure numbering. To enable this for all posts, just add this to your config file:. If you want to enable this per post, just add this to the metadata . Original cl...

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Comprehensive Linux Backups with etckeeper &. I’m going to build on Jamie Zawinski’s excellent advice about backups. Which you should read first. This is basically that, but with some extra bits. If this seems too complex, then. Just do what he says. The plan is to use Backupninja. To backup everything to an external USB. Drive and also to Amazon S3. Depending on what it is. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities, just by dropping .

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How to create thumbnails for PDFs with ImageMagick on Linux. To create image thumbnails from a PDF. Document, run this in a terminal window:. Convert -thumbnail x300 -background white -alpha remove input file.pdf [. The parameters to convert. Do the following things:. Similar to -resize, but optimized for speed and strips metadata. Make the thumbnail 300px tall, and whatever width maintains the aspect ratio. Sets the thumbnail background to white. Removes the alpha channel from the thumbnail output.

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It was a Good Week. Taken from my Wife’s office window, around 10am. The weather was great this week - crisp and autumnal, with beautiful sunshine all week. It snowed a little on the local mountains and Cypress Mountain. Has opened for (limited) Skiing already, using the lower temperatures to make lots of extra snow. Whistler also opened this week, along with Grouse. Taken from my Wife’s office window in the afternoon, during the Golden Hour. Which is now around 4pm. In other, even .

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Duncan Lock’s Resume. An adaptable and enthusiastic developer with broad experience and an artistic background. Strong graphical communication, design, creative &. Problem solving skills and an eye for detail. Flexible learner, open to all technologies, platforms, and languages. An adaptable and enthusiastic developer with broad experience and an artistic background. Strong graphical communication, design, creative &. Problem solving skills and an eye for detail. A quick &. Sketching; paper prototyping.

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It was a Good Week. Taken from my Wife’s office window, around 10am. The weather was great this week - crisp and autumnal, with beautiful sunshine all week. It snowed a little on the local mountains and Cypress Mountain. Has opened for (limited) Skiing already, using the lower temperatures to make lots of extra snow. Whistler also opened this week, along with Grouse. Taken from my Wife’s office window in the afternoon, during the Golden Hour. Which is now around 4pm. In other, even .