Note: This page is concerned with generating HTML when you already have your thumbnails and photos. I have another page if you want a script that can create thumbnails. Maybe deprecated with all the new ways to get this done, but here is an example of a working FOR loop in PHP. Summary This page describes a PHP script…
Open Document format Open source office doc. Much better for printing. cal = Calendar.Prints a calendar for [[month] year].cat = Catenate.Joins files end to end or send file to standard output. cd = Change Directory.”..” is one directory up. Without a path, sends you home.chgrp = Change Group.Changes the group associated with file-list. Group is the name or group…
Summary With the widespread use of hand-held devices used to browse the Internet, it has become more important to make links that are large enough to be touched by hand, not just clicked with a pointer. I searched around a while and am satisfied with this simple solution using CSS without relying on the “button”…
Summary This page has a brief explanation of a possible way to increase the resolution of your unsupported / poorly supported video card under linux by using the generic vesa driver. A sign of this is only getting 800×600 or 640×480 pixels when your monitor can handle a greater resolution. Background Trying to install Linux…
Summary Here is my recommendation. If you have trouble with an Acer or Gateway laptop that has a black screen on boot, and won’t boot into the CD ROM device, then try plugging an ethernet cable into the laptop from a working router. It worked both times for two different laptops with different operating systems….
Update 2016. I still use these scripts to process photos. Summary Below are three small perl scripts that makes use of the exiv2 application to manipulate EXIF data in a JPG file. They are single loops that can change the value of the meta data associated with a JPG file (the data about camera, shutter…
Updated 2015-08, Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS. Apache 2.4.7, PHP 5.5.9, MySQL 5.5.14 Summary I wanted a local copy of Joomla to experiment with. It is not a simple thing. You need to have Apache, PHP, and MySQL installed first. Here is the offical list of Joomla Requirements. One shortcut might be to use Xampp. If you don’t want…
Created 2015-08. Xubuntu 14.04.2. Update 2023 I think this page is deprecated, at least for anyone using a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. Sometime in the last few years, the automatic software updater started to add a second round of updates after the kernel files were updated. It appears after the restart and shows a window of…