work there. But things have gotten better over the years... staff retires/gets reassigned, fresh blood gets hired (who actually know wtf they are doing).
Lots of things are *bad*... some worse than others.
Such is life.
Craigslist) but after witnessing the 120 MB/s on my SATA drives, I'm quite impressed, and I'll hang onto my 2 GB P4 for awhile longer.
Well it works! =) Rare is the day I ask it to do anything challenging. How many GHz do I need to surf the web anyway haha.
work there. But things have gotten better over the years... staff retires/gets reassigned, fresh blood gets hired (who actually know wtf they are doing).
Huh?!
Craigslist) but after witnessing the 120 MB/s on my SATA drives, I'm quite impressed, and I'll hang onto my 2 GB P4 for awhile longer.
many GHz do I need to surf the web anyway haha.
No wonder you have so many problems and don't know what works. The rest of the world moved on.
On a sunny day (Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:21:47 -0500) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :
out too.
an other machine,
other laptop, etc etc.
Been doing that on nn PCs ever since Linux .98.
In all that time I: once accidently did rm -rf * in /, hit ctrl C really fast, and lost part of X11 dir, copied it back from CD, no problem.
Other easy mistake is to add a space in an rm statement.
But when trying anything on the command line you have to pay attention, like when driving a car, or flying a plane.
The other mistake I once made is replace a libc by an other one, everything stopped working, but I would have done that as non-root with sudo anyways, was just a moment of mis-understanding, you learn.
All that time wasted by operating as a castrated user, with no power to do any I/O (that I need all the time anyways). Imagine a car where you have to sit in the right seat steering, and every time you need to accelerate or break, or whatever, need to hop over to the left driver seat.. (For the UK it is the other way around). I would scrap it :-) There even was a distro where you got a totally red screen as soon as you logged in as root. Old women, like NASA doing acrobatics a few hundred km up, people asking about lawyers if Dennis Tito wants to send a couple past mars...
No more assault weapons, hey no more matches, no more kitchen knives, no more food? You could get indigestion, probably horse meat with hormones in it anyways:-) Age of old women, men who go where no man has gone before (marry an other man), and all that political crap.
And the consequence of a fatal error? I once dropped a harddisk (with MS windows and Linux on it). mmm so what! you DO make backups do you? At least of the stuff you worked on for years?
I prefer not to walk around with chains on my feet and a weight on my neck.
just work there. But things have gotten better over the years... staff retires/gets reassigned, fresh blood gets hired (who actually know wtf they are doing).
Oh, you know... I could be on the streets... or in prison... but I'm not, so I count my blessings. =)
many GHz do I need to surf the web anyway haha.
So many problems? It works fine. Faster than the Core2 Duo machine at work (running WinXP). There is the occasional Ubuntu bug, especially with volume control, but it's no big deal.
Besides, I'm cheap. Otherwise I'd buy an i7 and be done with it. Haha.
Right. You need an auxilary X server, e.g. Cygwin/X. Also free, and comes with a nice set of Unixish tools for Windows (Cygwin,
formatting link
). Getting X11 tunnelling to work across SSH is often fiddly in Windows, but with Putty it just works. Putty has many other shining virtues as well, e.g. it's a general purpose terminal that blows Hyperterminal away completely. I use it all the time for talking with instruments and so on, as well as for running X apps over ssh.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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just work there. But things have gotten better over the years... staff retires/gets reassigned, fresh blood gets hired (who actually know wtf they are doing).
count my blessings. =)
Should you be? Both of those conditions are self-inflicted.
How many GHz do I need to surf the web anyway haha.
(running WinXP). There is the occasional Ubuntu bug, especially with volume control, but it's no big deal.
You must have the work machine configured very poorly. Again, fire the IT department.
Life is short. I work so that I can do and have things. I do. Why sweat the small things?
Do you mean like all dem welfare weenies? That doesn't quite seem to be your thrust.
Not at all to any point, just whinging.
Maybe. The Unix world philosophy is so very different. Over the years MS stuff has been becoming more like Unix/Linux for over 2 decades. Similarly GUI tools in Linux have become better than equivalent MS tools. If you really want to set me off i can seriously out complain, with better backup, the ever growing failings of MS system management tools versus that of most any Linux distribution. I might have to learn the history of another distributions tools to make it stick but i surely can.
If you expect it to exactly mirror your MSWin experience so that all those years seamlessly apply you are kidding yourself. Go play with a Mac for a week, month, or year. See how different that is, yet NOBODY whines about that difference.
difference when using mencoder to transform different
Oh, nice! I usually use mencoder though. Not sure why I never really warmed to ffmpeg. Maybe just because I know how to convert h.264 to mpeg-2 using mencoder, but not with ffmpeg...
But, yeah, the Core 2 duo at work gave faster times than the Pentium 4 at home, haha.
Something like this.
#!/bin/sh for i in *.mp4; do if [ -e "$i" ]; then file=`basename "$i" .mp4` mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf \ scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:\ keyint=18:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 30000/1001 \
On a sunny day (Wed, 6 Mar 2013 08:46:43 -0800 (PST)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :
to ffmpeg. Maybe just because I know how to
haha.
Yes, I have used mencoder, but i tis reall ya sbste of ffmpog, if you look in the source oy see mplayer uses ffmpeg. I sometimes use mplayer -dumpvideo etc if I am lazy and just need some material.
The general format foe ffmpeg from format X to format Y is something like:
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