October 1, 2004
Blog Entry on the Friday 01st, October, 2004
Off on holiday, chill-out time. Limited internet.
October 4, 2004
Blog Entry on the Monday 04th, October, 2004
at a mark thomas gig very very good
url to follow when not blog-ing from phone
Mark Thomas Coca-Cola gig
October 6, 2004
Blog Entry on the Wednesday 06th, October, 2004
Went out in Newcastle and went over the Millenium bridge, see photos -> others. Still only have net access via phone, so i love putty, ssh heaven
Out of date cartoon
Blog Entry on the Saturday 09th, October, 2004
It a bit out of date, but still funny or very real.
Presidential Briefings
Fly like a bird ?
Blog Entry on the Saturday 09th, October, 2004
Lol, got a mini helicopter in a sale for only 12.50 GBP
Mini-ITX Project
Blog Entry on the Sunday 10th, October, 2004
Spent most of the day, but I have got my Mini-ITX project back on track.
Firefox 3
Blog Entry on the Sunday 10th, October, 2004
This is how you demo firefox 3. created by Gandalf
:)
Blog Entry on the Monday 11th, October, 2004
See Scan of a scan.
Taxi Please
Blog Entry on the Sunday 17th, October, 2004
Louise popped over from Canada on the way to see her mother. Collected her from the airport then went up town. Photos, here, here and here
Always remember not to leave your car keys at work when you have to make an early morning visit to Heathrow [Airport]. Not get up in the morning remember and then have to pay for a taxi to and from Heathrow....
Anyone Going to Japan ?
Blog Entry on the Monday 18th, October, 2004
I was about to purchase a Zaurus SLC-860
When on Nippon Export I spotted a new shinny toy, the Zaurus SL-C3000. Nice, hurry up November 10th.
Other links :-
Register
itmedia or itmedia in English thanks to Babelfish
Can I have a lift home from the pub ?
Blog Entry on the Thursday 21st, October, 2004
Allyson has passed her driving test.
For many reasons this has taken a while, but this is great news. Allyson did pass first time! Time to go car shopping.
I heard 2nd hand, but now seen some footage
Blog Entry on the Monday 25th, October, 2004
The reason Bush still gets more than a single vote... Fox News. Have a look at the footage at Outfoxed.
Lucky we still have the BBC, brave enough to tell the truth, but getting a mauling from the Hutton Inquiry. Never happen here ? Only becuse we have the BBC:-
Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.
The BBC is run in the interests of its viewers and listeners. Twelve Governors act as trustees of the public interest and regulate the BBC. They are appointed by the Queen on advice from ministers.Maybe at last a reason to be a monarchist, but not a republican, so still no votes for Bush.
Does Blog Feed work ? - Maybe
Blog Entry on the Monday 25th, October, 2004
Not to be left out on planet.livecd.net I've have put together a RSS feed. According to the Validator its ok, prepare for rants.
Slashdot, - Ubuntu For PPC, And As A Live CD
Blog Entry on the Wednesday 27th, October, 2004
A ./ story on Ubuntu, mentioning the Live CD. Obligatory Morphix Plug. With reference to the Morphix tools:- Module Maker, ibuild and TROM
What Extension or OS are You ?
Blog Entry on the Friday 29th, October, 2004
Being a person not lead by the crowd ....
Which File Extension are You?
I did not hack it but:-
Which OS are You?
White (Trash) Goods
Blog Entry on the Sunday 31st, October, 2004
A long time ago in a galaxy far far way ... I can remember DVD players being uber cool and expensive. As we have Laptops in our household what the point of splashing out on a DVD player. But whilst food shopping I picked up a DVD player in the supermarket for only 30 quid (43 Euro). Yes thirty pounds, 3K pennies
It plays anything I can throw at it DVD, SVCD, VCD, CD, Files: MPEG/MP3/JPEG. On any kind of media DVD*, CD, MiniCD. [Except a DVD structre on a CD.]
It nearly a litlte bit more than cabling from the TV-Out of my server to the TV. I am tempted to buy another one just to see whats inside, the worst I end up with is a DVD drive. How could you even make a $1 profit on the DVD player ?
Haggle, ffmeg to mpeg-1
Blog Entry on the Sunday 31st, October, 2004
Spend most of the day car shopping with Allyson. Looks like we have found Allyson's Car, but I am honing my negotiation skills, haggling is fun. "Now, are you telling me that's not worth twenty shekels?"
Following on from my DVD player purchase, I have not encoded/decoded video for a while, forgot what fun it could be, but finally got it to work.
#Convert to 25 fps if needed ...
mencoder -o temp.mpg -fps 25 -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 input.avi
#Then ffmpeg will convert to mpeg-1 With the correct audio format
ffmpeg -i ./temp.mpg -f mpeg -vcodec mpeg1video -b 800 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec mp2 -ab 128 output.mpg