In order to rename Images from xxxxx.gif to actualdate.gif on Linux (As long as the image have a EXIF info of course)

jhead -n%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S *.jpg

This will rename files matched by *.jpg in the format YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM_SS

(jhead is required to be installed)

I use this format so Coppermine Gallery (http://coppermine.sourceforge.net) can then change the Image description to it’s actuall date using the filename.

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Today I went down to Cardiff Bay, to an area called “Mermaid Quay” (seems Quay is pronounced Key)

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Today I woke up to a surprise, the chair I bought yesterday, arrived at 9:00AM .. WOW .. talk about Fast !!

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Recently I bought the book “The Da Vinci Code” in Portugal (Azores) ..

I just read it last week .. and man was it GOOD .. Dan Brown’s writing is very easy to read, and it’s plots remind me of Crichton, well researched and interesting fiction with a twist of truth
So yesterday while in Swansea, I noticed a 3 for 2 sale on his books, so I had to grab the remaining 3 from his collection

- Deception Point
- Digital Fortress
- Angels and Demons

I started reading the last one, it features the same character (Robert Langdon)as “The Da Vinci Code”.. I have read 120+ pages since last night already, and within another 2 nights of reading I shall be done, so far it’s as great as “Da Vinci” ..

Good reading
Dan Drown’s website -> http://www.danbrown.com

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I was a bit fedup with using a dining room set as my desk, so Today I was finally able to just go to IKEA and get me a desk and Chair.

The Desk was 75� the Chair was 65� .. the Magazine and CD holders where 9�

I got this desk because I can make it higher than the standard desk, which means my back wont arch when I am working.

I feel that now I can finally work
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I rarely Use Cpanel server anymore, but we do have a few on the NOC, and they constantly the target of hackers .. so ..

With the Help of Vladimir (Unicorn) .. here is a nice Iptables ruleset for Cpanel based servers.

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Tonight I attended the “South Wales Linux Users Group” (http://www.swlug.org/) meeting.

It was interesting, it happen at a nice coffee shop “A shot in the dark” in Cardiff, it was nice for networking and meeting new friends, but the Beer was lousy :p

Next Meeting: Nov 04 in Swansea

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If you ever ran /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat

to get something like this


[root@mail2 root]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 4830
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 173


After you find and stop the spammer, you now have a mess of email on your QMail queue .. here is a way to remove it

take a “user@domain.com” that is common on the spammed emails (usually the sender) and run this command


grep -R user@domain.com /var/qmail/queue/mess/* | awk -F":" '{print "rm -f " $1}' | sh


That will delete the emails that contain that user@domain .. be very careful with this, a wrong setting and you can be wiping your mailserver clean instead
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I went to check Swansea (Wales) today.

The city looks nice, the downtown doesn’t have as much flair as Cardiff does, but it’s very nice neither the less ..

The main differences I saw is that Cardiff is very well compacted downtown, Swansea is a bit more spread, it actually gives the impression of having a Larger topografic area than Cardiff, I don’t believe it does,, the seem to be about the same, but Swansea has 100K less people.

The price difference between the two cities can be as high as 40% (Real Estate) .. so unless I find a major deal in Cardiff, Swansea might be the only choice we got … we will see as I scour more of the vicinity during the upcoming months.

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I have installed X1000 v3 Linux on my NX7000 Laptop, I mush say Ahmad (http://x1000.bitbuilder.com/) has done a terrific Job.

here is a screenshot.

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