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Pre-press & Media Resources

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Some links I’ve found helpful over the years: www.prepressure.com:   Almost everything you ever wanted to know or need to know about pre-press processes. www.b4print.com:  Forum / news resource for pre-press information. Adobe Red Book:   The PostScript Language Reference Manual (a/k/a PLRM or “Red Book”) D90 Archive copy FontLabs:   FontLabs has taken over the development and [...]

EVDO and SSH Timeouts

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

When I switched to EVDO, I started having major problems with SSH Sessions timing out, which is a major problem for me.  I have also run into this on some Cable broadband systems, while DSL has always performed well.  I use an SSH Tunnel to send outgoing email (so regardless of whether I’m on my [...]

Nagios

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Rest of install to come… But let’s document connecting to a IM Server (Jabber) – Create Jabber accounts (goggle will do).     — From a browser, “initialize” the accounts by sending an invitation so they can be added to the “friends” list before we have to deal with command line stuff.  Simply send an invite [...]

My Favorite Commands…

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Some of the command constructs I love but don’t always remember off the top of my head: Recursively search for a text string, and provide the file path and name. sudo find ./  -exec grep “http://litmus.mozilla.org” {} \ ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null Recursively add files to svn: svn status | grep “\?” | awk ‘{print [...]

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