A talk on two dimensional imaging
Author: mikal
2001: AUUG Annual Conference
A talk covering Panda and PandaLex
2001: Computer Engineering 3 A
A talk on Distributed Systems
2000: Panda
A talk at CLUG about Panda
2000: AOSS
A talk at AOSS about Panda
Graphics programming with libtiff: gray scale and colour images
The followup to the first article covers gray scale and colour images. Published online by IBM DeveloperWorks. [tags: libtiff tiff graphics]
Graphics programming with libtiff: black and white (reprint)
My first online article, an introduction to programming with libtiff for IBM DeveloperWorks. Reprinted by AUUG in their magazine. [tags: libtiff tiff graphics]
And then Nemo wanted weighted random numbers
Nemo then wanted weighted random numbers, so this item has been added to this page. The following script selects a random element from a weight list of options… #!/bin/bash # Copyright (c) Michael Still 2002 # Released under the terms of the GNU GPL # In this case, Nemo wants to be able to specify…
How good are bash random numbers anyway
How good are these random numbers anyway? I generated 100,000 random numbers between 1 and 10, and then had a look at their frequency: 1: 9964 2: 10009 3: 9978 4: 10015 5: 9997 6: 10020 7: 10011 8: 10008 9: 10006 10: 9992 I would say that this is probably close enough to random…
The challenge and the result
So, I was at a CLUG meeting last night, and one of the speakers had a whole bunch of bash scripts for XDM theming. Anyway, he was using a perl script to generate the random selection of the theme elements, and me and my big mouth offered that it could be done in bash itself….