Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Making a huge PDF into a reasonably-sized one (by tossing superfluous bits) ... in gs(1)

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Short version: $ gs -o reasonable .pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r300x300 huge .pdf or, to turn foo-big.pdf → foo.pdf and save a little typing...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

For my Linguist Daughter: a Cryptoquip

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I have this urge to explain things that I learn. Yesterday 's “Crypt-quip” gives me that opportunity. The “cryptoquip” is a substitu...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Happy-ness

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I've been thinking about happiness lately, and some of this has to do with the current sermon series at church—not that my thoughts h...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Dishes weren't getting clean in Kenmore Elite dishwasher 665.13422K701

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So I noticed that the flatware wasn't getting clean in the dishwasher, and the cups weren't looking so nice either. Things were ...

Network issues solved: replaced D-link DIR-810L by ASUS RT-N66U

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Streaming video to our computers, or even audio, was problematic at our house. It had been some months (don't remember how many mont...
Friday, September 12, 2014

42% “efficient”

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Suppose a team of coders work on a project, and we say we want code reviews, or maybe inspections. We have estimates for how long vario...
Monday, August 11, 2014

One size fits… one.

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Today's Old Testament reading, from the book of Nehemiah, shows an interesting contrast in the way different people experience God. ...