I always forget how to do this: ffmpeg -i iphone-portrait-orientation.mov -b <bitrate-of-source-file>k iphone-portrait-orientation.avi mencoder -vf rotate=1 -o iphone-landscape-orientation.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=<bitrate-of-source-file> iphone-portrait-orientation.avi
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Fiddling with my vim statusline
This: function! FileSize() let bytes = getfsize(expand(“%:p”)) if bytes <= 0 return “” endif if bytes < 1024 return bytes else return (bytes / 1024) . “k” endif endfunction set statusline=%1* “color to user mode 1 set statusline+=%<%t%w%h%m%r “tail of…
XHTML 1.1 Strict New Window Links With jQuery
I was throwing together a prototype site last night and I thought it might be nice to aim for XHTML 1.1 Strict compliance, really just for kicks. Most of the time, this is no big deal, but I was stuck…
Installing the Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7
This set of instructions exists more or less on more than one site, usually completed by a few follow-up comments. For my own sanity and future reference, these are the 100% reproducible set of installation instructions, which prevent a nasty…
Inserting video content into a LiveJournal comment
Yesterday I was looking for good instructions on inserting video content into a LiveJournal comment (for someone else) and couldn’t find any. So, after being successful, I felt it my geek duty to write up my directions in case, some…
Tagged with: how-to, LiveJournal, photobucket, video, youtube
Posted in blogging, code, geek life, how-to
Posted in blogging, code, geek life, how-to
Cygwin Prompt Here (for tcsh)
In a post I can no longer find, Scott Hanselman blogged about a registry entry to add a “Command Prompt Here” item to Windows’ right-click context menu. This has, many times, saved me almost 30 seconds of opening cmd.exe and…
Floppy Disk Pen Holder
Quite a while ago, my wife left me alone at home for an evening with nothing to do. Arguably, I could have cleaned or something, but I was feeling crafty, and had happened upon a tutorial on Instructables for creating…
Keeping SSH connections open (in PuTTY)
Lifehacker posted an article this morning about keeping SSH connections open in Linux (which was just a re-posting of an article on FOSSwire). This is helpful for all of those Linux users out there, but for those of us who…
Using Subversion to safeguard my photos
During the backup project, I created a subversion repository for all of my installation media and installation files – anything I’d need to set up a new computer. The intention was to have a system that was a solid backup…
Code Highlighting With Google’s SyntaxHighlighter
This is (mostly) a test post to see how well Google’s SyntaxHighligher works. As you hopefully see below (if your browser supports javascript), it works well. I approve! function safe($num) { // there has to be a smarter way to…
