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  • Steve 11:51 pm on September 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Social Spider Web 

    I am deluged each day with people (irl) re-living their lives in the social spider web.  You see, I call it a spiderweb because once you get trapped – facebook kills you.  Then you turn into one of my friends (who will remain nameless) and post at least 10 pictures of herself, talk about having sex one night and then going to the hospital the next for a urinary tract infection.  Sadly, this lady has been trapped by the social spider web, and has been slowly killed.

    The other tell tell sign of the spiderweb is the gang signs.  Spiders love these gang signs – so be on the lookout for { @, #, !, ♻ }

    That is all – but please be my friend:

    http://www.facebook.com/steve.stalcup

    http://identi.ca/vorian

    http://twitter.com/vorian

    now for a funny movie

     

  • Steve 3:05 pm on August 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Even Sci-fi authors love us! 

    I’ve been waiting to get my hands on a copy of N. D. Melander’s book ( Icarus Falling ), and reading his blog to keep track of when I can.

    Tonight I came across this post and thought I should pass it on. Enjoy!

    http://www.parkingorbitpublishing.com/2010/07/writing-in-open-source-world.html

    An opensource created Sci-fi book…. what could be better?

     

  • Steve 4:28 am on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    I am tired….

    Well, what started out as a test of a new blog function turned into a mistaken post on Planet Ubuntu.  I have to say thanks for all the cheery responses.

    Why am I so tired?  Camping with my wife and 5 kids – burning up during the day and freezing to near death at night.  The grounds were beautiful, and generally the sun wasn’t so bad.

    to sum it all up, I’m tired

     

    • Ravindran 5:32 am on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Cheer up Steve.. happy friendship day!!!

      • Steve 9:30 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Same to you! Thanks

    • Akshat Jain 8:46 am on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      dude,absolutely love your planet ubuntu avatar.

    • Steve 11:39 am on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Ah! This was not meant for planet ubuntu! Sorry folks

      • Steve 9:30 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        But thanks for the avatar props – it has evolved over the past years

    • Jonathan Carter 12:44 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Get some sleep and excercise :)

      • Steve 6:27 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I intend to! :)

        Thanks

    • Aoirthoir An Broc 1:14 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      We don’t give a damned if it was meant for planet ubuntu or not, we’re glad it went there. We love your posts.

      • Steve 6:26 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Well thanks, I suppose I’ll leave it

  • Steve 2:23 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Dear lazy web …. 

    Does anyone know of an application that will convert PDF files into posters?

    I have a blueprint that is a one-page PDF, and my attempts at converting it to a multiple page poster haven’t turned out like I would hope.

    Thanks as always!

     

    • Paul Kishimoto 2:41 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      • Steve 4:27 am on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Thanks, didn’t look there :o

    • Aoirthoir An Broc 3:38 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Um… sudo apt-get install pdfposter ?

      http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/

      • Steve 4:27 am on August 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I know, should have checked closer

    • Henry C. Gernhardt, III 3:43 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Is the PDF vector or bitmap? If it’s vector, you could use Inksape, although I’m not entirely sure what to do thereafter. Import the PDF into inkscape, then change your document properties to reflect an appropriate poster size. Group all the objects and scale them to the new page size. Now you have a poster-sized version of the original one-page PDF.

    • jim 3:55 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      $ apt-cache search pdf multiple page poster
      pdfposter – scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages

      Was that so hard?

    • Martin Owens 6:08 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Can you give an example? The question seems like it could go multiple ways for me, but non of them make much sense.

      Turn a PDF into a poster: File > Print
      Turn an existing PDF into a new media format: Inkscape
      Create a Tiled Print Job for making a large output: I don’t know how to do this.

    • Marcel 9:44 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’d suggest: Print to a Postscript file and then use the, well, poster commando from the poster package :-)

    • Robert 12:36 am on July 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      If you’re willing to go to Postscript and back, you can check out the ‘poster’ program: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/poster/

    • Alex Willmer 12:59 pm on July 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Did you try pdfposter, available in the Ubuntu repositories?

      pdfposter -pA0 ~/Downloads/Pricing\ Table\ 1-3-10.pdf ~/test.pdf

      worked for me scaling a single A4 page to A0, and tiling it over 18 A4 pages

    • Boerny 1:57 pm on July 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Have a look at pdfposter(http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/) or posterazor (http://posterazor.sourceforge.net).
      Both should be in the ubunut repository.

    • Boerny 2:10 pm on July 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Maybe you are looking for pdfposter or posterazor.

  • Steve 10:51 pm on July 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Package Training 

    This almost feels like a “Hello Planet Ubuntu” post, because it’s been so long (but Hello Planet Ubuntu anyways)  :)

    Daniel has a way of reaching through the fiber and really getting people to commit to the hardest things, I am in awe of how he does it.

    I hope to accomplish two things in this post, one is inform prospective Ubuntu developers on training available.  The second would be the need for folks in the Ubuntu Development community to step out and help these prospects out.

    To the prospective Ubuntu Developer:
    There are a number of resources available to get you started with packaging.  One of which is live instruction via IRC on freenode.net channel #ubuntu-classroom.  These live sessions are very informative and typically have you see a task from start to finish.  The package training coordinators are working on getting these weekly sessions started back up.  So until these classes start up again, here are some great links to help you get started.  Of course, as always, #ubuntu-motu on freenode is one of the best places to get questions answered in real time.

    To our Developers:
    Please consider taking the time to teach one class.  These classes are once a week, and are roughly an hour.  Get in touch with someone in the Package Training Coordinators team if you are interested.

     

    • Martin Owens 2:10 am on July 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Please consider helping with the Debian packaging introduction visual guide: lp:~doctormo/doctormo-random/debian-packaging

    • Steve 3:43 am on July 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’ll check it out and check it out.

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