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Linux notes: High load on Acer Aspire 5738z with Ubuntu 9.10
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Sunday, March 28, 2010. High load on Acer Aspire 5738z with Ubuntu 9.10. There is a bug w.r.t to the graphic drivers for this laptop. This causes udev to take up quite a bit of CPU, making the laptop run hot. The Ubuntu bug is here:. Https:/ bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/linux/ bug/440411. From the ubuntu bug, once can go look at the related kernel bug:. Http:/ bugs.freedesktop.org/show bug.cgi? For now I am killing udev to keep my laptop cool. Like so:. Sudo /etc/init.d/udev stop. Flex / AS3 notes.
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Linux notes: July 2010
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Thursday, July 8, 2010. Compiling sfxr on Ubuntu. Sfxr (http:/ www.drpetter.se/project sfxr.html). Is a cool utility for generating sound effects. To compile it on Ubuntu you need to install a few packages to resolve dependencies. Dependencies are: build-essential libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins libsdl-dev libgtk2.0-dev. Taken from the comments in http:/ theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-posted-on-some-of-work-i-want-to.html. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ubuntu Jaunty Jalopy (9.04). Flex / AS3 notes.
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Linux notes: Canon CanoScan 9000F in Debian Linux
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Sunday, December 2, 2012. Canon CanoScan 9000F in Debian Linux. I purchased a Canon CanoScan 9000F. Scanner, to use with my Debian system. To ensure I would have a smooth time, I went to the Sane project website ( http:/ www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON. And confirmed that it was fully supported. Debian version of my system:. No LSB modules are available. Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 (squeeze). Got the scanner plugged it in, powered it on. dmesg showed it. Which found no scanner, bummer. Git clone g...
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Linux notes: Video conversion in Linux
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Thursday, May 17, 2012. Video conversion in Linux. My Nikon COOLPIX P300. Camera generates h264, 1920x1080 videos in a .mov container. So a 17 second video is over 40 Megabytes. I decided to convert this to a different format, with the aim of reducing the file size. A quick search led me to ffmpeg. Running that dispalyed a message to use avconv instead. So on to avconv. To do a basic conversion, the command is:. Avconv -i in movie.mov out movie.avi. This however failed with:. November 24, 2012 at 2:30 PM.
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Linux notes: June 2010
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Thursday, June 17, 2010. Ffmpeg: A simple command line tool for converting video formats. Ffmpeg -i input file output file.extension of new format. Like so, to convert a mpeg to swf (Adobe flash format). Bash$ ffmpeg -i video.mpeg output.swf. You can tweak the defaults by adding more parameters. Some that are useful are, bitrate(-b), framerate(-r) and output video size(-s). The last one would scale your video. Bash$ ffmpeg -i video.mpeg -b 700k -r 25 -s 580x200 output.swf. Labels: Recommended linux apps.
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Linux notes: Compiling sfxr on Ubuntu
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Thursday, July 8, 2010. Compiling sfxr on Ubuntu. Sfxr (http:/ www.drpetter.se/project sfxr.html). Is a cool utility for generating sound effects. To compile it on Ubuntu you need to install a few packages to resolve dependencies. Dependencies are: build-essential libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins libsdl-dev libgtk2.0-dev. Taken from the comments in http:/ theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-posted-on-some-of-work-i-want-to.html. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ubuntu Jaunty Jalopy (9.04).
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Linux notes: xvidcap: Make a video of your linux desktop.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010. Xvidcap: Make a video of your linux desktop. Is a nice tool to make movies of your linux desktop. It installs from the repos "sudo apt-get install xvidcap" and works great. Labels: Recommended linux apps. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ubuntu Jaunty Jalopy (9.04). Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10). Ffmpeg: A simple command line tool for converting . Xvidcap: Make a video of your linux desktop. Other blogs to check out:. Flex / AS3 notes. Simple template. Template images by gaffera.
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Review and recommendations: Book review: Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
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DVDs, Books and Graphic novels. Thursday, February 16, 2012. Book review: Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi. Fuzzy nation by John Scalzi is a rewrite/reboot of the novel, Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper. While Little Fuzzy is in the public domain, Scalzi released Fuzzy Nation with the permission of the Piper estate. I have not read Little Fuzzy, so I do not know how it compares to the original. Seeing how well this book turned out, I now feel like reading the original Little Fuzzy, to see how they both compare.
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Review and recommendations: Graphic novel review: Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan Mcleod
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DVDs, Books and Graphic novels. Saturday, May 11, 2013. Graphic novel review: Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan Mcleod. Graphic novels, martial arts. Infinite Kung Fu is a 464 page, graphic novel about (magical) Kung Fu and zombies. It was created, written and illustrated by Kagan Mcleod. The art is black and white and has a painted, water color like, look to it. This style complements the martial arts theme of this book well and is one of the stronger points of the book. Labels: 4 star graphic novels. Watermark...
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Linux notes: September 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009. Good sound editor for Linux. Audacity is a great sound editor for linux. Allows you to import various file format, edit them and export them back into any format you like. Homepage: http:/ audacity.sourceforge.net/. Labels: Recommended linux apps. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ubuntu Jaunty Jalopy (9.04). Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10). Good sound editor for Linux. Other blogs to check out:. Flex / AS3 notes. Reviews and recommendations - Books, DVDs and Graphic Novels.