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Computer Woes: Good TV transcoding with mencoder

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. Good TV transcoding with mencoder. Since I got my PVR working (I'll backpost on this later) I suddenly have a need to transcode my TV captures from their 720x576 MPEG2 space-devouring format to something more manageable, like XVID. For this I use mencoder, the command-line encoding tool that comes with MPlayer. Oac chooses audio encoder (lame). Ovc chooses video encoder (xvid). Xvidencopts: b...

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Computer Woes: How my Poweredge 1300 got its 2.6 kernel

http://computerwoes.blogspot.com/2005/07/how-my-poweredge-1300-got-its-26.html

Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. How my Poweredge 1300 got its 2.6 kernel. I've had bad troubles getting my Dell Poweredge 1300 to boot the shiny new Debian 2.6 kernel I downloaded for it. It got stuck when trying to mount the IDE drive (the system SCSI worked fine). After a tip from a colleague i added "acpi=off noapic nolapic" to the kernel option in /boot/grub/menu.lst and now it boots fine! And personal phone startpage.

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Computer Woes: Long-time Gaim problem solved

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. Long-time Gaim problem solved. I've been getting an error message (since like forever) each time I start Gaim. And personal phone startpage. Posted by osiris @ 19:30. View my complete profile. How my Poweredge 1300 got its 2.6 kernel. FileZilla SFTP2 is slow. How my Latitude got its groove back. New server from leftovers (back-dated). Error messages - you had better believe them.

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Computer Woes: March 2005

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. I suddenly realized .bashrc wasn't running on my Debian machine. The solution was very easy - the part running .bashrc was comment out in .bash profile. The hard part is understanding why this is the default. More about this here: http:/ my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg? And personal phone startpage. Posted by osiris @ 12:26. View my complete profile. Good TV transcoding with mencoder.

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Computer Woes: .bashrc not running

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. I suddenly realized .bashrc wasn't running on my Debian machine. The solution was very easy - the part running .bashrc was comment out in .bash profile. The hard part is understanding why this is the default. More about this here: http:/ my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg? And personal phone startpage. Posted by osiris @ 12:26. View my complete profile. FileZilla SFTP2 is slow.

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Computer Woes: Haupauge mixed emotions

http://computerwoes.blogspot.com/2006/01/haupauge-mixed-emotions.html

Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. I was very happy with the ripping quality of my Hauppauge PVR USB 2 external TV card. I was not very happy with its instability however. Recordings regularly end up half-sized or zero bytes. And personal phone startpage. Posted by osiris @ 16:14. View my complete profile. Good TV transcoding with mencoder. AnkhSVN problems with file:/ paths. Long-time Gaim problem solved.

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Computer Woes: MySql access denied for root - doh!

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. MySql access denied for root - doh! If you are not careful, you can easily demote your root account in mysql to have zero access - "Access denied for 'root@localhost' using password YES". Fear not, it is easily solved by restarting the mysql service with the option - skip-grant-tables. If you're running mysql on Windows, it's easiest to add the row. And personal phone startpage.

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Computer Woes: FileZilla SFTP2 is slow

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. FileZilla SFTP2 is slow. It's always a bit sad when you find a program you like to be inept. The turn has come to FileZilla. Which I've liked and used for a time (se old post about that). I've had real speed problems between my Windows desktop computer and the Debian box in my wardrobe. Speeds above 160 KBps have been impossible, which is quite ridiculous on a LAN. And personal phone startpage.

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Computer Woes: February 2005

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Woes from advanced computer use - programming, open-source-undocumentatia, it-support-for-friends-and-family etc. FileZilla SFTP2 is slow. It's always a bit sad when you find a program you like to be inept. The turn has come to FileZilla. Which I've liked and used for a time (se old post about that). I've had real speed problems between my Windows desktop computer and the Debian box in my wardrobe. Speeds above 160 KBps have been impossible, which is quite ridiculous on a LAN. And personal phone startpage.