I recently updated some x11 packages using swaret on Slackware. It seems to have broken the ImageMagick convert utitility, at least that is my guess since I haven't noticed any other updates in ...

You can use the convert command that comes with ImageMagick to extract parts of an image. You can cut out a 100-pixel-wide chunk from somewhere in the middle of an image: $ convert -crop 100x+0+0 orig ...

Let's start with some homework. Go to Google (or Bing) and search for "privacy is dead, get over it". I first heard this from Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, but it's attributed to a number ...