Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDFs and/or jpegs together. Help, please!
A quick google reveals that someone else has run into this situation before: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2507766/merge-convert-multiple-pdf-files-into-one-pdf Does this solution work for your use case? Gregory 'Rudi' Rudolph r...@nmare.net (518) 888-6156 Verify PGP Signature via https://keybase.io/verify I am Rudi9719 This email message and attachment(s) may contain sensitive and/or proprietary information and is intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message without making a copy. Please do not transmit any sensitive, proprietary, ITARS or FOUO data via e-mail without using approved encryption techniques. Nov 25, 2022 11:40:46 Alan Mackenzie : > Hello, Gentoo, > > I'm back again after something kicked me off the mailing list some while > ago. > > I have a problem, in that I need to join several PDFs or jpegs output > from xsane (the scanner program) into a single document. > > I don't know which program can do this for me. Would somebody please > recommend one (or even two) to me, please. > > Thanks! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?
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Would this be a case for "ps"?
If you would like to know the PID of the process that calls your script you
could execute "ps -o
comm= $PPID"
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/ps.html
Rudi
November 11, 2019 5:34 PM, "Jack" wrote:
> On 11/11/19 12:38 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 04:37:17AM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote
>
> hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that
> know the name of the process that is trying to access
> it, and based on its name, it links it to a file?
>> Short answer... YES! Now convince the developers to use it. Here's a
>> trivial example...
>>
>> * Create a 2-line executable script "foo"
>> #!/bin/bash
>> echo "${0}"
>>
>> * Create a symlink with the command "ln -s foo bar"
>>
>> * Execute "./foo" and the output will be "./foo"
>>
>> * Execute "./bar" and the output will be "./bar"
>
> That makes a distinction based on the name by which the script was called,
> not on the name of the
> calling script. Caveman Al, have I misunderstood what your are asking for?
>
> Jack
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?
On Feb 18, 2020 22:33, james wrote:On 2/18/20 9:29 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote: >> So, >> >> After contacting several US carriers, the cover story is you can get a >> cell phone, root it with linux, and it 'should work'. Supposedly, you >> are encourage, but they >> will not offer any help. So rather than spending months, >> I'd like to 'cheat' and find a gentoo hack(er) that has >> rooted and put some form of gentoo, or embedded_gentoo >> on a cell phone. >> >> Please respond to the list, but, for whatever reason, private >> responses are OK too. >> >> >> I'm just tire of my Android cell phone downloading update *every >> night*. I want/need control of the stacks >> running on the phone. I have heard this is quite popular in Europe and >> the Rf circuits have their own firmware, so it's really next to >> impossible to hack the Rf side >> of communications.? >> >> >> Any and all responses, public or private, are most welcome. Links only >> are fine too! >> >> >> James > > > For gentoo, I would say "not easy at all" - the problem is custom > hardware, propriety drivers and lack of information, even in well > supported models. > > There was an app where you could install gentoo into something like a > container - worked well but the android kernel I was using at the time > didn't have some functioned enabled that fed into limiting some > operations in the container. > > Easier and more practical would be to install LibreOS. You can build ii > yourself and build/include your own software as needed - I did it many > times with its Cyanogenmod predecessor (I presume you still can).� There > are some other stacks suitable for phones such as sailfish and even > android can be built yourself (and you can defang/customise it while > doing it - google not needed and if you dont install GAPPS it still > works fine) > > To be honest, if what you mentioned is your main gripe, build android > and use a third party app store like F-Droid to control that side of the > equation. > > Make sure you look into rooting, flashing a new OS and the implications > of doing so - that can be another whole level of pain depending on the > brand of your hardware, and how recent it is (less chance with new stuff > as the really smart people have not had time to trailblaze :) > > BillK Good info (thanks!) Here's what I've found so far. The purpose of this posting is to share info, so we have a gentoo on a cell phone. I am currently researching 'unlocked' samsung phones that support 5G and CDMA, so most sim cards should work. If others are interested, or know of viable github (etc) places to upload codes to, gentoo centric, I'd be all for that. I just done with carriers running my cell phones. Sure they can control the RF (hardware), but not the software running on the phone. here are a few links:: https://fossbytes.com/how-to-install-a-linux-on-android-phone-without-rooting/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_virtual_network_operators Here is an unlocked 5G and CDMA? I'm looking at to root with gentoo:: Galaxy S20 5G 128GB (Unlocked) https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s20-5g-128gb-unlocked-sm-g981uzaaxaa/ Chating with samsung right now. Explaining *why* there needs to be a samsung dev phone, supporting and working with Gentoo we'll see how this goes... More comments? encouragement, folks interested? James I am very interested, although my testing capabilities would be restricted to a non-samsung Pixel 3. My understanding is also that the Pixel and Nexus devices publish their "vendor blobs" or hardware binaries online which may help? I've experimented with Ubuntu Touch a bit on the Nexus 5, however the device is quite slow at this point. My use case wouldn't be so much for control over updates, but more for things like Convergence (Ubuntu), Dex (Samsung) or Android Desktop. Where you dock your phone and have a linux/Android desktop with floating windows etc. I'd like to be kept in the loop on this, and if possible I would also like to help contribute software however I'm not really skilled with hardware. I configure my kernel and that's about it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Now it's AMD's turn ...
"While Hardware Unboxed found disclosures that Intel funded the research, raising concerns about the objectivity of the study, the authors have also received backing from Intel (and other sources) for finding flaws in the company's own chips as well as other products. It appears to just be a general effort to spur security research, then. As it stands, the funding source doesn't change the practical reality -- AMD may have to tweak its CPU designs to safeguard against Take A Way attacks going forward." While I usually side with AMD for their contributions to the Open Sourced community, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even though they're funded by Intel the fact that they've been keeping the specifics quiet proves that they're trying to help rather than smear the name of AMD. Hopefully this doesn't cause as much of a recoil as the Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. What % of performance was lost for those? 20? Gregory 'Rudi' Rudolph r...@nmare.net (518) 888-6156 Verify PGP Signature via https://keybase.io/verify I am Rudi9719 This email message and attachment(s) may contain sensitive and/or proprietary information and is intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message without making a copy. Please do not transmit any sensitive, proprietary, ITARS or FOUO data via e-mail without using approved encryption techniques. From: Michael Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2020, 08:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Now it's AMD's turn ... Just in case Intel felt lonely in the vulnerabilities game, some researchers (also funded by Intel) managed to reveal the illusion of secure computing is probably in the past: https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/08/amd-cpu-take-a-way-data-leak-security-flaw
