DVD Flick is the BOMB!!
Friday, August 28, 2009, 06:52 AM - Windows
Does anyone say that anymore? I guess now it rips, shreds, something? Anyway. I just downloaded DVD Flick, an open source dvd rendering and burning program. Take any video you have, and I mean ANYTHING and this app seems to rip them and spit them out in a nice, standard DVD format. I took a bunch of DIVX standard stuff I found somewhere and threw them into the app, said "make me a basic menu and burn the dvd" and it worked. First time. No fuss, no muss. It just works.
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( 3 / 717 )log4net comes to Twitter
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 10:34 AM - .NET
Someone turned me on last week to this cool log4net appender for Twitter. Basically, you configure your app to "log" to twitter for certain events, and it acts just like a normal appender. Very cool. [ add comment ] | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 2.9 / 662 )STUPID CLAMD!!
Friday, July 31, 2009, 05:10 PM - Linux
I ran into an issue where clamd (the clam anti-virus daemon) was using 100% of my CPU time, forcing other programs (like auth!) to fail. After playing with several settings, I finally figured out how to disable clamd:
1. touch /var/qmail/supervise/clamd/down
2. vi /var/qmail/control/simcontrol
3. change :clam=yes to :clam=no
4. save the file and run /var/qmail/bin/simscanmk
5. qmailctl restart
6. qmailctl stat
You should get a message that clamd is down (since we added a file named "down" in the clamd folder for supervise) and it should stay down when we restart qmail.
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( 3 / 635 )What kind of timestamp is THAT??!
Friday, July 31, 2009, 03:26 PM - Linux
If you're like me and run qmail with multilog to split things out into multiple, readable logs, you end up with some crazy looking log entries, like this one: @400000004a736ed035017b1c tcpserver: status: 26/400. The message is pretty readable, but the timestamp, @400000004a736ed035017b1c, not so much. However, there is a solution. Instead if just issuing a tail -f filename, pipe that output to tai64nlocal, like this: tail -f filename | tai64nlocal. This will convert the output to something much more readable, like this: 2009-07-31 15:25:58.861012500 tcpserver: status: 31/400.
Happy Logging!
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( 3 / 490 )DesertCodeCamp USB Code
Sunday, June 21, 2009, 03:00 PM - Programming, Electronics
I recently taught a class at DesertCodeCamp using a Microchip 18F2455 PIC and C# code to build a Generic HID device to connect to a stoplight. The code for the project, as well as the JALEdit editor with all the options set to compile it and the bootloader update program are included in the zip here. [ add comment ] | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
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