Photo etc

dcraw examples

dcraw is a linux/Windows command line tool. It can convert RAW-files and that does also include Nikons NEF-files. Raw photo decoder “dcraw” v8.73 by Dave Coffin, dcoffin a cybercom o net Usage: dcraw [OPTION]… [FILE]… -v Print verbose messages -c Write image data to standard output -e Extract embedded thumbnail image -i Identify files without […]

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Linux

Profiles in Gentoo

Supported profiles You can view the list of profiles on your architecture officially supported by Gentoo developers when you emerge eselect and then run the following command:

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Linux

Making Postfix daemon programs more verbose

Append one or more “-v” options to selected daemon definitions in /etc/postfix/master.cf and type “postfix reload“. This will cause a lot of activity to be logged to the syslog daemon. For example, to make the Postfix SMTP server process more verbose:

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Scripting

Emerge new system from old World file

A slick script or method to compile the apps listed in the world file, from an existing system to the new system, all together at once, rather that typing in all of those application names into one giant emerge command. emerge -av $(cat /path/to/oldworld)

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