just spent ~2 hours trying to wrangle ImageMagick or pdfjam to convert and condense about 400 jpegs into one PDF

finally did it in about 5 minutes with gscan2pdf:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/gscan2pdf

sometimes....GUIs are good

@ashley THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS

@ashley wait I'm sorry what is this from because this *is* what @clairefox 's soul is working on

@ashley I completely forgot about that Twitter exchange!!! This is an awesome and thoughtful post as always, Ashley, and I can't wait to test this, I've got a dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows laptop at work now and a regular need to shuttle things to/from a Samba share from either OS....

You and @bitsgalore's "imgr" tool family have got me all inspired to work on my own GUI ideas...

@ashley yes!!!! I recall trying out a few front-ends and never really loving any of them, will be happy to test

I have also been wanting to learn how to do this to make a lightweight QEMU launcher, so I want to hear about what tools you're using...

Any vintage computing and/or emulator enthusiasts out there who have favorite hobbyist sites or resources? I realized this was a crucial missing piece in my emulation-resources repo:

https://github.com/EG-tech/emulation-resources/blob/master/README.md#hobby-blogs

new slide for when people ask us if the legacy operating systems in EaaSI are "secure"

https://xkcd.com/2166/

iPRES program is out!

https://ipres2019.org/program/

Can't wait for my favorite pre-conference activity, which is planning when to take a break (not going to be easy since our hackathon got accepted!!)

@ashley aaaaahhhhh no one told me these things before I made the travel request 😭😭😭

@ashley eeee I hope so too but I'm actually not hanging around for most of the conference! pretty much going for the workshop.

maybe drinks that evening??

side note: has the "Delete and redraft" feature always been part of Mastodon or was that part of the recent update? because CLUTCH

LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!!

Any colleagues going to Texas in August for #SAA2019, please join the EaaSI and FCoP teams for this FREE day-long workshop on preserving software and implementing emulation access services

Come hang and catalog some software!!! (really)

http://bit.ly/about-aug-2019-emulation-workshop

@sabrams @ashley

@andrewjbtw I think you're right, and I think it's one of our long-term goals to investigate routing source repository requests from emulated environments to Software Heritage (or a similar source archive/mirror) rather than their originally-intended repos, for stability and security

in the meantime, being able to temporarily connect an Ubuntu 8.04 environment to the net and just apt-get install a dependency b/c hoary/universe is still live.....is saving me a lot of time

I know it's now like part of my job to figure out what happens when this is no longer the case, but thank christ Ubuntu has kept all its old-release source repositories up and running

I’ve seen people express concern that Apple’s Ruby announcement will affect Homebrew. Don’t worry - we’ve been shipping our own Ruby where needed for a few years now. We’re in a good position to adapt, and we’ll be ready long before the change actually happens.

@andrewjbtw

I know HBO is probably preserving the literal assets and all but who is preserving *the spirit* of HBO's desperate attempts to maintain subscriptions after the GoT finale

I just want to catch up with Barry, please chill out with the four trailers for your lineup before every episode, my dudes