motorola Surfboard 6141 making noise

I just want to say despite many nay-sayers posting responses to this on other threads there is something in my SB 6141 that vibrates with uploads. (correlated by noise during speed test). These two links are have the identical report and then other people trying to argue that it’s not Read more

animated gif from imagemagick

put the list of files into a file ls -1 foo*.jpg > /var/tmp/jpglist rename randomly named files in numerical order cat /var/tmp/jpglist|perl -e’$i=1;while ($name=) { chomp $name;$new=”week” . $i . “.jpg”;system (“cp $name $new”);;$i++};’ resize all 13 files named week[number].jpg, add the Week[number].jpg to the lower right hand corner of Read more

citrix receiver linux breaks every couple years

and I spend a week looking for the answer – the basic searches lead to dead ends with old articles about server side stuff searches like citrix receiver COMODO RSA don’t help you find the “good stuff” the good stuff is #5 here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CitrixICAClientHowTo quoteing for posterity By default, Citrix Read more

14.04 software raid and encryption

I used this as a starting point http://askubuntu.com/questions/505446/how-to-install-ubuntu-14-04-with-raid-1-using-desktop-installer I did my own pairs of /boot and / partions on my real disks sda and sdb, then installed mdadm and created the md0 and md1 raids from the command line then ran ubiquity -b (my /boot is not encrypted, but / Read more

quick and easy pdf editing

GIMP is my new goto for editing pdfs, not as good as the real thing — it edits by drawing graphics over the page — rather than typing in forms on the page — but for filling out basic paper forms it can work well. 1) save pdf 2) open Read more