Or, for an alternate title, “How to manually set a speed on your optical drive”. I have an aging Thinkpad T61 (maybe the last one to have shipped to North America with SuSe Linux pre-installed!), and it has an optical drive that creates quite a noise and serious vibrations when running at full tilt. So […]
Several people requested the slides from my talk, “The Hotrodder’s Guide to Maximum Performance LAMP” immediately after my talk … so here it is! OpenDocument Presentation Slides
I found myself wanting to put FAHScreensaver in as a proper screensaver in Linux, partially because it looks nice but mostly because the idle detection in Linux by Folding@Home seems to be broken. So here are some steps to make that happen. These steps assume you have root or otherwise privileged access to the machine […]
If you’re like me, you just can’t bring yourself to get rid of a perfectly usable computer, particularly an old Thinkpad workhorse. However, in the case of my Thinkpad T21, even in Linux it is being forced into obsolescence, primarily by the graphics card (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Graphics Ltd. 86C270-294 [SavageIX-MV] (rev 13)). […]
So you pay for a cable/dish subscription, and want to be able to use the WatchESPN/ESPN3 website to watch live content. But for some reason it just doesn’t work on Linux. Turns out, the Adobe Flash plugin depends upon the now defunct HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to assist in mediation of DRM protected content. The […]
I frequently use SysRescueCD to perform a variety of tasks. In this case I was wanting to clone a hard drive onto a new SSD. However, the default shell in SysRescueCD is zsh, and it doesn’t interpret commands how I’m use to. To change shell: chsh -s $(which bash) You will need […]
One of the niftier but lesser known features it Windows is the ability to use Alt Code Sequences to type special characters, such as accented letters. Anybody who has done work in a foreign language on a computer knows the value of having this functionality. Good news … KDE allows you to do […]
You will need: – Recent ffmpeg – Panasonic Lumix FZ35 (duh) ffmpeg -i INPUT-FILE-FROM-CAMERA.MTS -vcodec libxvid -b 7000k -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 192k -deinterlace -s 1280×720 output-file.avi
Things you will need: – Linux – ffmpeg – A Droid, dummy Warning: I do have all the freedom hating codecs installed. You will have to output to H.264, and depending on your inputs, you may need to hate freedom even more than that. 😛 ffmpeg -i filein.mp4 -y -subq 6 -deinterlace -level 30 -f […]
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