Stretch Your Mind: Planarity
“Arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap” Planarity is a game that is simple in concept, but will have your visual processing areas tying themselves in knots. All you have to do is rearrange a...
View ArticleThis is How We Catch You Downloading
TorrentFreak are running a story about the means and methods used to track filesharers on P2P networks. The firm responsible for finding those sharing copyrighted works, Logistep AG, are using a piece...
View ArticleFirefox Beta 3
As a PortableApps Firefox user, I downloaded Beta 3 of Firefox 3. It’s pretty slick looking, and there’s a whole host of new features. I don’t like the lack of ‘go’ or ‘->’ at the end of the address...
View ArticleInstalling / Replacing Flash Plugin in Firefox Portable
I was recently playing a game called Spin the Black Circle, a gravity-based game where you manoevre a ball through a series of hazards by rotating the environment the ball is in. It’s kind of Crystal...
View ArticleInstalling Debian on QEMU
Since I decommissioned my home server in favour of an NSLU2 (a NAS), I’ve found myself without a Linux machine to much about with or develop on while on the go (well, whenever I can’t use my laptop)....
View ArticleUbuntu 9.10 Karmic Upgrade Problem Fixed (mountall/init)
(Jump to the bonus section on sorting a removed Gnome panel) I finally got round to doing the Jaunty->Karmic upgrade on a troublesome machine. Well, re-doing. I made an abortive attempt to install...
View ArticleExtract A Single Image From A Video Using FFMPEG
Dead handy, this: ffmpeg -ss 0.5 -i inputfile.mp4 -t 1 -s 480x300 -f image2 imagefile.jpg The various options: -t 1: limit to 1 frame extracted -ss 0.5: point of movie to extract from (ie seek to 0.5...
View ArticleProject Euler Problem 11
Just a hint, so you don’t go down the wrong path. You probably won’t, but if you don’t want any hints, stop reading this article! PS If you don’t know what Project Euler is, I recommend having a look...
View ArticleScribeFire’s Arrow Keys Don’t Work
This post is composed within ScribeFire, the blogging extension thing for Frirefox (et al). And I can’t edit posts easily because using the arrow keys causes a blank javascript:; to fire. Bloody...
View ArticleMP4 / H264 Errors in Adobe Premiere Pro / Media Encoder / MainConcept
I’ve been editing together a few gameplay videos recently (eg DayZ Tread Lightly).I came across a rather perplexing error when trying to encode a long video. Basically, I have a few sequences of...
View ArticleTerminal sharing via web? Use Gotty
I found an old 2.5″ hard drive that I didn’t recognise, and it was not keen to mount- it kept errorring out. So I figured I’d ddrescue it, and wanted to share that process with a friendly online...
View ArticleAdding Discourse to a mix of nginx-hosted sites [How]
I set up a Discourse server today. It was pleasantly straightforward. The official docs work well enough, though there are a few things I did: integrated with existing nginx sites by cribbing from this...
View ArticleVLC on Android skips some songs
Be careful with the record player, you’ll make the needle jump! Before I begin, let me make one thing clear: VLC has been my media player of choice for what feels like an eternity in computing terms....
View ArticlePandoc to docx: tips for myself
With bonus LibreOffice content! Background I’ve been using pandoc for a few years now as part of my workflow in sending out minutes of a local group- I use LaTeX to make ’em beautiful in a PDF and also...
View ArticleTuesday Tabsplosion: Org-Mode (The Basics)
Who organises the organisers?* Context, or On Rabbit Holes Sometimes one dives down a rabbit hole. Occasionally, down that hole one finds an actual rabbit; other times, the rabbit you find were the...
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