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It's sometimes useful to strip the embedded fonts from a pdf, for importing into something like Inkscape. Be warned, this will increase the size of a pdf substantially.
I tried this with only gs writing with -sDEVICE=pdfwrite but it doesn't seem to work, so I just pipe postscript output to ps2pdf for the same effect.
If you want to do the same in OS X... grep as necessary for information you need....
Directories listed in human-readable format
An old USB A/B cable is all you need to make your own Smart Home hardware!
Cut off and discard the B-portion of the USB cable. On the A side, connect the RED (+) and WHITE (D-) wires via a 1 kiloohm resistor.
$Picture:
http://imgur.com/dJGVlAU
Now plug the cable into a USB port on your Linux computer. Your hardware is ready!
Run the above command after changing variable mysms to your personal email-to-SMS gateway info as required by your cellular service provider.
The command uses the amazing usbmon tool (see link below) to detect the cable.
For the curious, to view the raw usbmon output, run this command: (Also see the sample output)
$usbmon -i usb0
How does it work? When the red and white wires are connected (via the 1 kiloohm resistor) the USB hardwere is tricked into thinking that a new USB device is trying to start up.
We then use the usbmon utility to capture the host USB events as it tries to talk to the cable.
The expect utility watches the usbmon stream and waits for the disconnect text "-2:128" before sending the SMS message.
Finally, the sendmail tool is used to email the SMS message to your smartphone via your cellular provider's SMS-to-email gateway.
As a result, when the electrical connection between the red and white wire is interrupted, or the USB cable is unplugged from your computer, you get an SMS notification of the disconnect event on your smartphone.
Could this be the cheapest smart home gadget ever? What are YOU going to sense with it?
Please let me know in the comments and please don't forget to click it up!
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$Links:
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http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/8/usbmon/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Pinouts
http://imgur.com/dJGVlAU
Instead of typing separate commands to create various subfolders, we can create multiple subfolders by listing them between brackets and separated by commas.
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"
This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory.
Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds.
sec2dhms() {
declare -i SS="$1"
D=$(( SS / 86400 ))
H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 ))
M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 ))
S=$(( SS % 60 ))
[ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:"
[ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H"
printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S"
}
ps command gives the possibility to display information with custom formatting with the -o options followed by the format specifier list.
