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  1. Re:I am a photographer... on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    It might sound like a lot of work, but when you have 6 rolls taken in the same lighting conditions, where the first frame has a grey card, you just set the whitebalance once, then just load up each strip and let the scanner do it's job.

  2. Duh. on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    Horses for Courses. When you need to touch up one image, use Photoshop. When you need to dust-bust hundreds of images, use CinePaint. When you need to rotate, scale, composite, and convert hundreds or thousands of images, use ImageMagick (via PerlMagick or your favourite scripting language).

    Similarly, excel is not a database management system, and Abiword is not a desktop publishing suite.

  3. Re:yes, you can command line photoshop on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    I've got no problem with 85MB files (14MPix 16b tiffs). But when I do my 6x6 and 4x5 stuff I have to let it run all night (768MB RAM, Athlon 2600+, Linux 2.6).

  4. Re:Manual vs. Automatic on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're doing multiple transformations to the same file, PerlMagick is much faster than ImageMagick, since you only have to load and convert to internal format once for each file. One project I worked on thrashed badly as a BASH-ImageMagick script, but could be run in the background while the computer scanned (300 DPI, legal size, with a document feeder, 4ppm) as a PerlMagick script.

  5. I am a photographer... on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 2, Informative

    My pictures are carefully composed and exposed. I set the whitebalance when I scan the negatives. Once the scanning is done, I run a batch job (over possibly hundreds of images) which opens each file (16 bit tiff), scales for printing at 12x18, 8x12, 8x10, 6x8, 5x7, and 4x6, saving as 100% quality jpeg, scales to 1024x768, 600x400, and 150x150, padding with borders if nescesary, rotating to portrait if nescesary (from a list), watermarks and signs them, and saves as 80% quality jpeg. This batch job can run while I sleep or do other things.

  6. Re:design fundamentals on Bioware Developing an MMOG · · Score: 1

    User designed dungeons! But the user who designs it can't crawl it, and treasure is scaled by both the challenge rating and statistical results.

  7. Don't eat Putin on Bioware Developing an MMOG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Poutine is fries with cheese curds and gravy. Russia will be upset if you eat Putin.

  8. Re:Flamebait on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is not hosted in Canada.

  9. Re:Thing is... selection is becoming much easier. on Trekkie Dating, is it Good for the Gene Pool? · · Score: 1
    You end up talking to people who think in a very similar way, often with similar interests.

    ... But are in the wrong country, if you live near a border.

  10. Yeah Great Site.. on Trekkie Dating, is it Good for the Gene Pool? · · Score: 1

    If you're not in the US, you can search only by country.... Not very useful when you're in a country bigger than the US.

  11. Re:Weakest link? on Investor Money Goes To Magic Lag Reducing Tech · · Score: 1

    And here I thought it was an article about the Turbonator.

  12. Better question on Google Moving PRC Records Out of China · · Score: 1

    Why are they keeping records in the first place?

  13. Re:not quite... on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a journal article, it was one of those "how to wash your hands" pamphlets they leave in doctors offices.

  14. Re:not quite... on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Regular soap doesn't kill bacteria, it just washes it down the drain. In the article I read, this washing away was as effective as antibacterial soap in removing the bacteria on hands, so long as you don't care what's in the wastewater.

  15. Re:I had a MRSA infection on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    And I thought resperator induced pneumonia on top of whatever you're on the resperator for in the first place was bad enough, but that takes the cake.

  16. And a new one: on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Azithromycin resistant Streptococcus Pnumonae.

  17. Re:MRSA on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So why not just keep a stack of clean labcoats at the clinic/hospital?

  18. Re:see sig. on Foundations of Ajax · · Score: 1
    or
    doc = document.implementation.createDocument("","",null) ;
    doc.onload = onload_function;
    doc.onError = onerror_function;
    doc.load("data/request.php?" + arguments + "&" + timestamp );
    Which is the standards-compliant, non-crazy-scripty way of doing it. Also this method and yours SHOULD both respect the same-source rule. If it doesn't, it's a browser bug. Also, it won't display your data in the page by accident if you make a mistake in your stylesheet (class/name that's styled "position: absolute;" in your data).
  19. Wrong devisor on Kids Build Soybean Fueled Sports Car · · Score: 1

    Those stats are per person (total population), not per vehicle occupant mile. Which makes them totally meaningless for the conclusion you are trying to draw.

    There are far fewer motorcylce occupant miles driven in North America than passenger car occupant miles. The vast majority of people who never ride a motorcycle have zero chance of dying while on a motorcycle, which skews the odds.

  20. Laptops can be handy in meetings. on Laptops Required for Freshmen · · Score: 1

    If you use it as an audio recorder, then leave it alone once it's recording, or use it to project motions being debated, it can be a handy tool for the secretary of a meeting in a formal meeting.

  21. which reminds me on College Student Receives Email of the Lost · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm constantly editing text my boss writes for publishing on the web that has stuff like "enter your email address (eg: smithj@telus.net)" to say username@example.net.

    Whoever smithj@telus.net is should be glad.

    Remember folks, example.org, .net, .edu, and .com are reserved for use in documentation and common system names like Postmaster@, abuse@, root@, etc shall not be used for personal email addresses.

  22. Re:One word... Cedega on Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Cedega doesn't work so well on a PowerPC Mac.

  23. Re:Very cool... on Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 1

    What I thought was most cool was that it asked you all the questions before it goes off and does things, so you don't have to set one thing up, wait, set something else up, wait, set annother thing up, wait, etc.

  24. Re:Uh oh! on Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 1

    Tried VueScan?

  25. Re:Extra packages showing bad form? on Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do not question it, or we shalltaunt you a second time.