Steven Reimer

Wow, this is handy. Had I known about this early it could have saved me a lot of time

mogrify -resize 800X600 *.jpg

Comes with ImageMagick in Linux.

An update to my Ubuntu 10.04 experience. I did a fresh install and things have gone a bit smoother. A couple hiccups remained though.

• Wireless no longer worked out of the box on my Dell Latitude E6400. I had to install 3rd party drivers.
• NVidia 3rd party drivers were worse. This seemed to be the cause of the freezing mentioned in my last post. Using the 3rd party NVidia drivers caused my laptop to freeze during boot and shutdown if on battery power.

Upgrading my laptop from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 was relatively painless. I did get a scare when the graphics failed with a white streaky screen. For some reason there was an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that shouldn't have been there. After switching to console and removing the conf file, the graphics were fine. Flash had to be fixed by removing the flash plugin and re-installing via command line with

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

That's all I had to do after the upgrade. At least for now.

edit

So it turns out that I am having major issues with Lucid Lynx. Well, one issue, it freezes constantly. Especially during boot and shutdown requiring hard kills. I will spend some time trying to repair it, but it's looking like I'll be downgrading.