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Making PNG thumbnails for PDF documents
Posted 2008/05/26
for pdf in `ls *.pdf `; do png=`echo $pdf | sed -e "s/\.pdf/\.png/"`; convert -density 300x300 -resize 200x200 $pdf $png; done
Debian openssl bug
Posted 2008/05/14
This is how to deal with the openssl mistake from Debian on our servers. This http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html will be known as “the great Debian SSL cock up of 2008″. There is some redundancy, but these are the steps we are using. In /home/users/ rm -r /root/.ssh/ for i in `find ./*/.ssh/*`;do new=`echo $i | [...]
Video cameras
Posted 2008/05/12
We have received the video cameras we want to use predominantly for the diary studies on the dig but might get some other footage of VERA type things. The cameras were £100 from Maplins and record straight to MPEG4 video, although they seem to use a non-open audio codc out of [...]
Wireless webcam setup
Posted 2008/05/08
We finally had all the kit we needed to run webcams on site. This post describes how I have setup hardware and software to stream video via our webserver. We actually wanted to do this last year but we were let down by a University supplier who took for ever to [...]