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June 27th, 2007

Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Python Rocks! and other rants
A logging module for Python

Unix: Tips on fixing Command Not Found
do "whereis foo", or "find / -name foo -print", then add the correct result to your path if you find it.

Zap2It Labs shutting down, how will this effect sagetv?
Zap2It labs will discontinue on September 1. But .. It will not affect SageTV since they bought a commercial license or some such thing. Yay!

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Chroot Jail vs Plash
Plash, a new fangled chroot jail type of deal. How does it compare? Read about it here.

Generating PDFs for Fun and Profit with Flying Saucer and iText
How to programmatically generate PDFs easily with plain XHTML and CSS

Searching Bash History Quickly
[ctrl]+[r], type in part of the command, [ctrl]+[r] again to cycle through the matches, [enter] to run the command.

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 3:30 AM MST

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June 17th, 2007

Yould: the Pronounceable Name Generator

Yould is a generator for pronounceable random words. It uses Markov chains trained on a large body of prose.

It looks like you can also install it as a Python library.

Here are a few I came up with:
Knotive
Destrus
Hathis
Conce

They might make good names for future products somday. Can you find any good ones?

Here is the blog post where Yould’s author talks about how he came up with the idea and a bit about how it works.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Python, Other, Machine Learning at 9:01 PM MST

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Nautilus File Manager Scripts for Ubuntu - Right Click Actions

Nautilus File Manager Scripts gives you a handy collection of Nautilus scripts to do actions on a selected file or files when you right-click. Most important to me is “scale image”, which I’ve been missing since I left Windows XP and no longer had access to its image resizer power toy.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Ubuntu at 12:37 AM MST

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June 16th, 2007

Fixing: bash: ImageMagick: command not found

So you’re sure you have ImageMagick installed on your Ubuntu/Linux, other system but you keep typing it into your console and getting the error:
bash: ImageMagick: command not found

Well, ImageMagick provides a set of useful commands such as convert, and display, but none of these commands are called “ImageMagick”. That’s why you’re not seeing it. So just choose which ImageMagick command you want to use and use that in your console.

This page lists all of the commands and their command line syntax.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other, Ubuntu at 11:47 PM MST

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June 13th, 2007

Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

BorkWeb ? Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation
Does having a lot of small images on your web app increase latency? Can this trick really counter that?

EarthTools - Find places, latitude/longitude, sunrise/sunset, elevation, local time and time zones
Interesting Google maps tools.

Learn About Natural Language Processing - A Free Ebook

Manual - Wireless USB Print Server 1 Port

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 3:30 AM MST

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