Because I always forget and have to dig through man pages, there are a few simple ImageMagick commands to resize an image while preserving the aspect ratio. I hate firing up Photoshop or Gimp just to do this:
convert -resize 200x150 original.jpg resized.jpg
Ok, you’re a security conscious Mac user so you’ve enabled the Open Firmware password. Now you want to boot from a CD and just holding down the “C” key while the computer starts up won’t work. What do you do?
You boot into Open Firmware (hold down command-option-O-F while the computer starts up), hit return and, when prompted, enter your Open Firmware password. Then at the prompt type
boot cd:,\\tbxi
47DN8DWPETEH
