Club Linux Coffs Harbour

Sometimes you want to pretend you're from somewhere else. Fortunately, there's no Law of the Internet that requires you to divulge your IP address, and thereby where, and (for all intents and purposes) who, you are. You can instead rely on the kindness of strangers who will form a virtual bucket chain to carry your data from one place to another, with nobody involved (or any evesdroppers) knowing anything more than the location of the next link in the chain. For this recipe you will need:

Have a whole bunch of ultra-high resolution images to upload to your website, but you don't have time to individually scale them to a Web-appropriate size in the GIMP? Imagemagick and bash to the rescue:

for i in `ls *.jpg`; do convert -resize 50% -quality 70 $i scaled/$i; done

…hey presto! That  9½MB file is now 50% smaller (in pixel dimensions) and a mere 750KB (in file size), and the same goes for the other hundred-or-so images in that directory.

Co-oincidental to research I'm presently doing on creating control and monitoring systems with web interfaces, I came across an incredible array of miniature computers running Linux or other tinier open source operating systems.

Of general interest, I think to pretty well everyone, would be the Sheeeva Plug, at an amazing US$99 with Linux, 1.2G processor and 512M RAM, together with 512M Flash RAM for website or other storage space. It's also "green" as it consumes less than 5W power.

Hi.  My cpu needs some attention.  I'd like to get it looked at on site if possible.  I have engaged Don Hunt previously but he seems to have disappeared.

Can anyone suggest a technician who would help at a reasonable cost?

Thanks, Terry

David from Grafton asked if it's possible to run multiple Live CD images off a single DVD. A bit of Googling turned up these articles:

• Creating a Multi-boot DVD

• MultiCD Builds a Multi-boot CD / DVD With Many Different Linux Distributions And / Or Utilities

Let us know if either is helpful, David.

I attempted to use the 'AusKey Secure Identity Data Exchange Thingy' only to find it does not work with GNU/Linux. I emailed them to let them know about their broken system and just recieved this cut&paste response:

The AUSkey solution currently does not support the Linux platform. This is consistent with other ATO systems.  The 'technical information' link on the AUSkey site outlines the operating systems and browsers that are officially supported.

Using my little computer which has the cpu capacity of a very stupid weevil I find it quicker to avoid too much GUI.

So, lets get to the point:

Navigate to the directory which contains the offending FLAC files and copy this in:

for file in *.flac; do $(flac -cd "$file" | lame -h - "${file%.flac}.mp3"); done

You'll get an error if you don't have lame or flac installed. So install them and try again. Done. Easy.

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NEW YORK--IBM nearly recouped the $1 billion it said it invested in the Linux operating system in 2001, the head of IBM's four server groups is expected to announce Wednesday.

Big Blue said more than a year ago that it would invest $1 billion in Linux--spending money on tasks such as bringing the Unix clone to its full line of servers, bringing its broad software portfolio to Linux, training its services and consulting personnel, and placing advertisements such as full-page ads in major daily newspapers.