Feels Like Christmas

I’ve been writing articles for Bright Hub since October of 2008.  I love it it’s a good way to get my knowledge across to a bigger audience.  I’ve been planing on doing some hardware reviews.  Today Thermaltake’s offerings came in a Blacx see picture on the left.  The Blacx is a HDD cradle for SATA drives you can hook up a harddrive by  USB or eSATA.  If you click on the picture on the left you can pick one up for you.  Or for the geek in your life.

Using Script-fu in GIMP

I upload images a lot and needed a way to batch resize 35 or more for use.

When putting a photo gallery online with 30 or more images, it sometimes becomes a real drag to scale down one by one.  When I was using Photoshop, I used the automate process to create a macro. However in GIMP, Script-fu is used and is an excellent way for batch editing, but it doesn’t have macro function. Script-fu as name suggests, uses a script for batch editing.

Script-fu was developed to allow a command line access to GIMP. In this case how ever we will be using the user interface version.

I need to find a script to perform the task’s I wanted. Found it on the gimptalk forum.  Yes I could have written a script my self but why waste the time.

There is a downloadable script that doesn’t adjust width and height like I wanted. I wanted to scale the images from 100% to 50%.

How to get Atheros AR242x wireless to work. 2

**10-23-2008** This how to still uses madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz And has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1(both x86-64 and i686) with kernel 2.6.24-21-generic. And once again every one who has problems please re-try the how to.

**09-17-2008** Thanks to Gideon, who told me the links weren’t working any more. This how to now uses madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz As always this revision has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1(both x86-64 and i686) with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic. And once again every one who has problems please re-try the how to.

**09-03-2008** This How to now uses the newest snapshot madwifi-hal-2008-08-15-r3862-20080903.tar.gz. As always this revision has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1(both x86-64 and i686) with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic.

**09-01-2008** This How to now uses the newest snapshot madwifi-hal-2008-08-15-r3851-20080829.tar.gz. If you posted a comment to say it isn’t working then please re-run everything. And report back to verify that the solution is now working for you. As always this revision has been tested by me and works for (K)Ubuntu 8.0.4.1 with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic.

This is a revision of my original post using the solution provided by Madwifi it’s been tested by me and it works.

Windows drivers are here

If you own the same laptop as I do, a Toshiba A205-S5825, then you probably have the same problem, if you are using Hardy or Gutsy with the newest Kernel(2.6.24-19-generic) or older, the wireless doesn’t work out of the box.

It cost me about an hour to solve this mainly because no one knew anything about this particular chipset.

So here is the solution for the AR242x. If you have a chipset in the A5700 series then this could work for you too.

The solution is quite simple and only takes you a couple of minutes to apply and then you can use your wireless.

For this How to you do need wired internet to the computer.

How to get Atheros AR242x wireless to work.

Windows drivers are here

Aug 18 2008: This is a The old version and this solution isn’t recommended anymore please use: the solution in my new post it’s been tested by me and it works.

If you own the same laptop as I do, a Toshiba A205-S5825, then you probably have the same problem, if you are using Hardy or Gutsy with the newest Kernel(2.6.24-19-generic) or older, the wireless doesn’t work out of the box.

It cost me about an hour to solve this mainly because no one knew anything about this particular chipset.

So here is the solution for the AR242x. If you have a chipset in the A5700 series then this could work for you too.

The solution is quite simple and only takes you a couple of minutes to apply and then you can use your wireless.

For this How to you do need wired internet to the computer.

Download an entire site with wget.

“Mini How To” Download an entire site with wget.

Ever wanted to download every image on a website?  Like wallpapers but don’t wanna spend the time to download them individually?

There is an easy way using Terminal.

The website myhdwallpaper.com has 9000+ HD wallpapers but I really don’t have the time to click through every wallpaper and just download the one I want.

The simple solution is to just do a:

wget http://myhdwallpaper.com

This would download the entire website in a flash(depending on your internet connection).  But what if we want to download without the webmaster of the website noticing right away (a good webmaster will notice no matter what) we can use the following command: