Monthly Archives: November 2007
Why Piracy Isn’t Bad: in terms your mom will understand
Understanding piracy, whether software, music or whatever, is pretty tough, especially when you’re trying to explain why it might not be that bad for the people who’s stuff is being pirated. Here’s an article explaining why piracy isn’t necessarily bad for business or for artists, and might even be good, and does it in language [...]
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Awhile ago, I posted on how to simply split an .avi. As it turns out, VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod will only work based on keyframes. If your video doesn’t have any keyframes (which mine didn’t), it will only clip from the beginning of the video to your punch-in point, which, of course, is NOT what you want–you want [...]
Control Torrets from A Web Interface
Ok, this looks like something I’d be interested in: a torrent client that you can control via the web. It’s called TorrentFlux and runs on Linux and Windows. You set your box up as a LAMP server, so it’s like a web server. Then you install/use this, and it serves up pages that allow you [...]
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CSS Diagram
You don’t understand the box model for CSS. This is because it’s hopelessly confusing. Of course, by “you”, I mean “me” (or “I”, as it were). Here’s a digram that will help: It won’t make you write good css. But at least it takes a bit of the confusion out of the whole thing.
Screen Space
A month or two ago, I got a big, widescreen monitor at work. It’s something like 22″ and runs at 1680×1050. this is a lot of screen space. Especially compared with my laptop, which is a 15.4″ screen and won’t go any tighter than 1024×768. When I first got the new monitor, it was awesome. [...]
Applications for E17
I think Enlightenment is way cool. It’s a window manager/desktop environment for Linux. It’s got lots of bling to it, and has animations, drop shadows, transparency, blah blah blah, and still runs better on my laptop than Gnome does. However, the newest version, E17, has been in alpha or beta for as long as I’ve known [...]
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How The Web Has Changed
Here’s an article on an html how-to site with instructions on how to stop people from stealing your images. This is utterly bizarre to me–does anybody think like this any more? I remember for a while, everybody on ebay was disabling right-clicking, which is outlandishly annoying. But I haven’t noticed that in a while (then [...]
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Trade Songs w/ Sufjan
Ok, this is pretty cool. If you write an original Christmas song, and send it in, you might get to trade songs with Sufjan Stevens. He takes your song as his own and you get his song as your own. How cool is that?
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