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No, only on messages.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You "hate iTunes with a burning passion."
So, you don't like my work, then? 
So sad... 
NOT! 
(  )
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Tell you what: if you go and yell at the current team and ask them, in turn, to yell at the otehr teams and
a) fix the insane issue where everythig locks up waiting for network timeouts, and
b) bring the OS into the 20th century and not force us to click an "eject" button to unplug devices
then I'll be happier.
I find (b) to be the most unbelievable part of MacOS given Steve's tyranical insistence on simplicity for the user.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, I'll be visiting with 1 or more team members in a few weeks (though, they dunno yet... surprise attack!).
Though, last I checked, they just don't jump into the space capsule from the ISS and go to a full throttle departure which, undoubtedly, would bring about a discontinuation of life for all involved.
Rather, they initial a process/procedure which includes decoupling the connections (ports) so that communication (e.g., air, etc.) is no longer synchronous (e.g., existing connection) between the ISS and space capsule headed back to earth.
Now, while we aren't working at the life-threatening level regarding the killer vacuum of space  , we also don't want to present data-threatening activity to users, lest they begin shouting the product is like a vacuum via expressing "THIS SUCKS!" 
Thus, regarding the requirement to press Eject, as I'm sure you can deduce, this is due to the software (iTunes) via the OS being in synchronous communication / connection with the device. As such, it is of necessity to press Eject such that the software can then initiate the process / procedure of decoupling the device from the mothership to ensure the proverbial airlocks are properly closed so that data (or, the "air," enabling the "livelihood" of many a user) is not frustratingly lost. 
However, yes, I concur that, for tech pros like us, pressing Eject *still* SUCKS!
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I understand the need to ensure airlocks are closed, but I would also point at Windows and say "that doesn't require me to press an eject button". 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I absolutely love the idea of a fingerprint sensor. An absolute necessity not just for phones but for signing into anything in my opinion
I do not: I prefer having someone get away with my phone and crack it easily, than having him get away with my phone AND my finger.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: than having him get away with my phone AND my finger
But you have spares! In fact aren't your fingers setup as RAID 10? Or should that be RAIF 10?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Every now and then my website provider break my blog. Further I am also annoyed to have to manually upgrade my blog to latest release (of BlogEngine) manually myself...
All of this to say: what blogging website would you recommend?
Also, if I own my own domain, could I somehow make this (recommended blog) a subdomain of mine?
And is there a way to salvage all my previous blog entries? (on BlogEngine)?
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Super Lloyd wrote: my website provider break my blog.
No kidding. I just clicked the blog link.
I use WordPress and am pretty happy with it. It's possible to convert your blog entries, as talked about here[^].
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Yep... 
Thanks Pete I'll do just that!
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One more question..
Do you host and administrate WordPress on your own website or just use the WordPress[^] website?
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I've used Wordpress on my own domain, the host company had an option to install Wordpress using a wizard which I did and then it worked.
It tells me when updates need applying, I say OK update, it updates, it keeps on working.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I do both. My personal blog is on the WordPress site. The corporate one is self-hosted.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Every now and then my website provider break my blog.
Yep. Clicked on that link.
I used WordPress for a while, but I am not a Blogger person so I threw in the towel.
Edit: typo fixito.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
modified 10-Sep-13 11:44am.
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I have bout of blogging.. a new bout is coming soon! :P
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I have to agree with the others I use wordpress for my blog, and even cheekily use wordpress as a CMS too, they've simply just done a fine job on it. So good choice.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Frankly I'd recommend just using wordpress.com then, if you're set on your on TLD, just using a redirect. Let them manage it.
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I have a project where I need to convert 2000 to 5000 pdf files to tiff images every day. I have a 'mock-up' in powershell that works ok. I will need to add multiple pdf's to one tiff as seperate pages. The file sizes are around 60k
My question is: What would be the best way?
The way I see it, I have a few options.
1.) Write something. Are there any libraries I should look at. Doesn't have to be free, but free is always nice. I used Ghostscript to convert them in my powershell script. Not really confident my powershell script can hack the load, but Ghostscript seemed to be ok.
2.) Find something. Needs to monitor a folder or be able to kick it off with task scheduler
3.) ???
Any thoughts?
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I use CutePdf to print to pdf, and it shows up as just another printer. I wonder if there might be an option like that for you to print to an image (tiff, jpg, whatever).
If you could find something like that which would just install as a printer like CutePdf does, maybe you could write a script that prints the docs that it finds in your folder.
Don't know how realistic an approach this is - I'm making it up as I go along.
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Thanks, Christopher. I'll have to see if I can script the input and output. The folders will be static so it should make it easier.
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There is. Universal Document Converter[^] should be able to do that. Beware: It is not free.
You can try the evaluation copy (which places a watermark on the printed documents/images)
The cost is 20 - 69$ / License (Depending on your Numbers of Licenses). So should be affordable if it is what you need.
I'm not affiliated with the producer/publisher of this product in any way. I only have used this product before for exactly this task.
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LibTiff[^] is an open source library for reading, writing, and managing tiff files. The download includes a number of command line utilities, including tiffcp and tiffcrop which can combine multiple files into multi-page tiff files. Combine these utilties with your existing powershell script and ghostscript.
What's in the PDF file? Just one or more images, or also text? Are the embedded images JPG? If you can simply extract images you could skip the ghostscript step (or any other "print to a file" step), which would probably improve performance.
XnView[^] can be used to batch convert images from various file types, including pdf and tiff.
PDFtk[^] is a utility for managing PDF files, with a GUI and also a command line interface. Can split pages and extract images from PDF files.
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The PDF's only contain images. I hadn't thought about just extracting the images out before combining and creating the tiff.
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Raeldin wrote: I will need to add multiple pdf's to one tiff as seperate pages.
Can't you merge the PDFs first[^] and then print to TIFF? If you can do the latter and the merging is a problem, the link I posted should help.
I use the GUI version found here[^].
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A product we used to use was called OutsideIn which could more or less convert anything to anything. We used it to convert all types of files to tif/gif. To be honest, I don't know how it came to us but it was taken over by Oracle[^].
I don't know if it's free or not but I must suspect that anything they get their hands on will cost a pretty penny or ten. If it's for work, ask your boss to look into it. Despite the Oracle connection it really is a first-class product. It wasn't their creation which probably explains why it used to be a good SDK then, but whether they've run it into the ground now, who knows?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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