Linux

Batch resize images using the command line in Linux

20th July 2010 in Multimedia, cli
If you have a ton of images that need resizing, you can do it all with the imagemagick package:cd /home/user/imagesmkdir resized_imagescp /home/user/images/* /home/user/images/resized_images Now that you have a copy of the files in resized_images, time to resize them all: mogrify -resize 800 *.jpg This will resize them all to a width of 800px while keeping the aspect ratio. [...]

1 Comment


Find out active IPs in a Linux LAN

4th June 2010 in Networking, cli

If you are on a LAN and wish to find out which computers in it currently have access to that certain LAN, you can use the following command: for ip in $(seq 1 254); do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? -eq 0 ] &[...]

Tags: , 4 Comments


USB devices not mounting in Lucid? Here’s a fix.

15th May 2010 in Hardware, cli

If you are pestered by the bug that doesn;t let you mount USB devices in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, the issue is caused by the floppy module. Disable it with sudo modprobe -r floppy and reboot. [...]

4 Comments


Fix Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and VMWare Workstation 7 issue

11th May 2010 in Applications

After you upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid, you might have noticed that VMWare has stopped working and can’t compile one of it’s modules. The solution to this is simple: download this patch and this script in the sam[...]

Tags: 1 Comment


← Previous Entries


Recent Tips