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Backups: Using `find` Across a Panalopy of Directories
I love using the find command. In DOS, find is like grep. In Linux, find is the most powerful recursive DOS dir /s or Linux ls -r command you could ever put your saddle on. One of the things you can do with find is to avoid directories, using the -prune switch. Like so: find…
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2013 Bike Picnics
Bike Picnic with the kids. BYOF. This year: cold lunches. I plan on one picnic each in May, June, July, Aug.
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Nanopaper and Flexible buckytube transistors?
Nanopaper and Flexible buckytube transistors? I have been always quite excited to hear about ways of making e-paper. This is rather a kind of complment to that, this is a microcellulose nanopaper that has organic circuitry (buckytubes) adhered to it. Not only is this not a display device yet, it is not a anything close…
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Remember Spring? 2012-04-08 Grasses [wallpaper]
Even though it’s been colder than the 30s in Bellingham for many winters, riding a bike through the cold doesn’t make me sweat. I cooked up a pleasant Easter picture for your desktop.
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Improve SSD performance on Linux
I had little idea that you could so easily change the disk scheduler in linux. I’m actually rather relieved I can do it in grub, or even live. I’ll have to do this on my workstations with SSDs. Four Tweaks for Using Linux with Solid State Drives | Tombuntu.
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Experiement: contrast, pattern, texture
Interesting to play with the ‘newsprint’ filter and grain merge.
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Picnic Table [wide desktop]
Ravenna Park 2012-11-22 The more of these macro panoramas I stitch together, the more limitations I learn about. First, getting the most coverage on a subject is hard to concentrate on (notice gaps at bottom). Second, shifting laterally left and right makes lining up control points difficult because you can’t match up the images. Third:…
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