“As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburettors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven…
Wow, Amazon UK is listing the book
I wonder where they got the cover art from though? I certainly haven’t seen cover art from the publisher yet. Then again, the art that’s been used is kinda nice. You can find the book listed here. Thanks to Anton for point all of this out in the comments here.
Converting a bunch of TIFF images to a PDF using ImageMagick
I just got this question in email, and thought I should answer it publically to help other people who might be wondering: I used following commands to convert D:\>convert -adjoin scanImage_1.tif -adjoin scanImage_2.tif -adjoin scanImage_3.tif three.pdf This didn’t work. And I use D:\ >convert -adjoin scanImage_1.tif -adjoin scanImage_2.tif -adjoin scanImage_3.tif three.tif And convert three.tif three.pdf…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 1: Installation and Configuration
I want to talk about the chapter I’m currently writing, but in order to do that in a way which makes sense, I really need to mention the chapters which are already written. Well, it makes sense to me at least, and this is my site, so I guess I get to do that if…
The architecture of PerlMagick
Steven comments on the slowness of PerlMagick in the EXIF tag extraction case. I’m pretty sure that it’s not forking a process though — ImageMagick is now a set of libraries which are wrapped to make the command line utilities we all know and love, as well as PerlMagick. So, I don’t think a fork…
ImageMagick slowness extracting EXIF information from JPEG files
For the book I’ve been working on a PerlMagick example which takes a directory of images, lets you rotate and label the images, and the publish them to a list of different possible publication directories. It’s basically an automation of what I’ve done with the image publication for this site for some time, but also…
Using an Intel PCI modem as a FXO card
Some of the Linux Aus mob have been interested in FXO cards recently. Perhaps they’re interested in using an Intel PCI modem as one? [tags: asterisk voip fxo intel modem pci] [icbm: home]
A book on ImageMagick?
I’ve been sitting on this for a little while, and a couple of people I’ve met in the flesh have heard about it, but I think the time is right to start talking about it more in public. A little while ago Apress asked me if I would be interested in writing a book on…
Google maps used to map US casualties from Iraq
A map which shows US casualties by home town. That’s a lot of people, and it’s a lot less than the Iraqis have lost. I have a lot of sympathy for America, and for the people of Iraq I guess to. What is this whole conflict improving? [tags: iraq war] [icbm: name=”Hotel Avante, Mountain View,…
Andrew is a loony
He hasn’t slept in something like 48 hours now. He’s a loony. On of the funnier parts of the trip over was listening to the Channel 9 “from the flight deck”. Before they could take of the United plane insisted on burning off 1,000 pounds of fuel. How long did it take? 5 minutes of…