January 26, 2012

Poor Joseph

January 24, 2012

Batch convert WAV to MP3 with LAME

Incantation as found on the web:

for f in *.wav; do lame -V 1 "$f" "${f%.wav}.mp3"; done

January 18, 2012

SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day

Disappointing to find Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl supporting this. I wouldn't expect better from Kohl, but I do expect better from Wisconsin.

January 10, 2012

Snow Prep 2012

With 3 to 5 snow in the forecast by Thursday, wrapped up most outside matters and made way in the garden shed for the last lawnmower having awaited it's over winter splash of fresh stabilized fuel. And likewise to similar ends pulled cords on the snowblowers to great delight when both fired with relative ease, one of which the Ariens ST-504 heading for retirement after 27 years of yeoman service. Not sure what I'll do with it. Meanwhile the smaller single stage will take care of this dusting as the new Ariens Sno-Tek 24 is still in the box.

January 10, 2012

sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org

Clock set from the command line in Linux.

Can also drop it in a crontab:

4 4 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org

As in 4:04 every day.

Hey! Everybody checks in on the hour. Dare to be different!

December 28, 2011

4:3x.75V=16:9

For those occasions when you'd like to change aspect.

December 27, 2011

Politality