On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:29:49 -0600, Dale wrote:
> I'm not sure what is going on with the servers but when I switched to
> one of them, recent updates didn't even exist. I just did a KDE and I
> think Firefox and neither seemed to be in the tree from those servers.
> Thing is, I didn't note which
I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
they're rather big ... I want to email them.
How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they
are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they're using about 5 bytes
to store all the colour, luminance, what
On March 1, 2021 12:50:35 PM GMT+01:00, Wols Lists
wrote:
>I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
>they're rather big ... I want to email them.
>
>How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they
>are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess the
On 01/03/21 12:11, (Nuno Silva) wrote:
> On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote:
>
>> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
>> they're rather big ... I want to email them.
>>
>> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they
>> are jpegs that weigh
save/convert to pdf - use gs from ghostscrpit to convert them (I use
ebook for the target) which gives 10-20x reduction in size with only a
small reduction in quality - perfect for emailing.
I dont have the actual command string but I originally found the
suggestion via google.
BillK
On 1/3/21
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:50:35 +, Wols Lists wrote:
> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
> they're rather big ... I want to email them.
>
> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they
> are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:48 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> should do it, you may need to play with the threshold setting. The file
> command reports the output file as being "1-bit grayscale".
>
> You can also use -monochrome but that will produce a dithered image,
> that's probably not what you want
On 01/03/21 13:48, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:50:35 +, Wols Lists wrote:
>
>> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
>> they're rather big ... I want to email them.
>>
>> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they
>>
On 3/1/21 3:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:29:49 -0600, Dale wrote:
I'm not sure what is going on with the servers but when I switched to
one of them, recent updates didn't even exist. I just did a KDE and I
think Firefox and neither seemed to be in the tree from those serve
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 10:45:32 -0500, Jack wrote:
> > Alternatively, switch to syncing from github and you'll always be as
> > up to date as possible - and it's much faster.
> Syncing won't help until the ebuilds are fixed, and the bug does not
> say that has happened. The problem is not (yet) sync
On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote:
> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
> they're rather big ... I want to email them.
>
> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they
> are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they're using about 5 byt
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:03 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 10:45:32 -0500, Jack wrote:
>
> > > Alternatively, switch to syncing from github and you'll always be as
> > > up to date as possible - and it's much faster.
>
> > Syncing won't help until the ebuilds are fixed, and the bu
On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 01/03/21 12:11, (Nuno Silva) wrote:
>> On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And
>>> they're rather big ... I want to email them.
>>>
>>> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? A
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:54 AM Wols Lists wrote:
>
> And the png does make a massive difference - the same command with jpg
> output is 1.7MB - so why is my scanner chucking out 800KB jpegs if I set
> it correctly?
jpeg quality is adjustable. You can output a jpeg file of almost any size.
Soft
HI, Gentooers!
So, I typed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd, and despite
hitting ctrl-c quite quickly, zeroed out some portion of the initial
part of a disk. Which did this to my zfs raidz3 array:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zfs
Firstly, I'll say I'm not experienced, but knowing a fair bit about raid
and recovering corrupted arrays ...
On 01/03/2021 22:25, John Blinka wrote:
HI, Gentooers!
So, I typed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd, and despite
hitting ctrl-c quite quickly, zeroed out some portion of the initial
part of a
On 3/1/21 3:25 PM, John Blinka wrote:
HI, Gentooers!
Hi,
So, I typed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd, and despite
hitting ctrl-c quite quickly, zeroed out some portion of the initial
part of a disk. Which did this to my zfs raidz3 array:
OOPS!!!
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