GRUB Hard Disk Error

[James McDonald]

On 05/03/10 14:38, Gene Carpenter wrote:
> Linux Community,
>
> I've noticed that many of you are disappointed at the lack of traffic
> within the community. Well, my request may help spice things up.
>
> I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my Toshiba Qosmio Laptop. I am a
> newbie to the Linux world, so I need as much help as I can get. This
> seems to be an old problem. I found incidents as far back as 3 years
> ago. I also installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my Sony notebook laptop without any
> trouble.

I'm missing the point of this last paragraph. Please explain what 
incidents you are referring to.

>
> While I'm asking for help, can somebody tell me how to reduce photo
> pixal sizes from (3072 x 2304) down to (640 x 480) within the computer.
> I was able to do it when I had Windows XP loaded on my Sony. I needed to
> downsize my photos to display them on Craigslist.
>

Method 1.

Open picture in GIMP and choose Image ==> Scale Image and enter your new 
resolution and click OK.


Method 2. - Command Line

Install image-magick
Use:
convert -resize 640 test.jpg out.jpg

Where 640 is the width.



> Looking forword to you help.
>
> Gene Carpenter
>