Category Archives: Computers
rebooting my mini-itx
It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on much anything computer-related as a hobby. Things have changed quite a lot in the past year. I moved to a much smaller apartment in Salt Lake, which is about a third … Continue reading
Filed under Hardware, Multimedia
multimedia reference guide: x264
It seems a little weird to me to post something on my blog that I already posted on our blog at work, but whatever. I figured it’d get more visibility if I wrote about it, since I already cover multimedia … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia
digital trike
So, I don’t normally talk about work on my blog, just because … hey, who wants to work? I’d rather surround myself with Reese’s cups and watch Roger Ramjet. I totally recommend it. Anyway, at Digital Trike, my current depriver … Continue reading
git and acl effective mask
I have run into this funky problem with ACL and git at work, and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I’m not sure if it’s a bug, wrong expectation on my part, or just plain ole … Continue reading
pear list
I’ve been tinkering with PEAR at work, switching between using portage to install stuff and sometimes using pear directly to install it. One thing that’d be nice is to get a list of the packages installed in pear command-line syntax. … Continue reading
Filed under Programming
uphpu presentation: ripping dvds
I gave a short presentation last night at uphpu on ripping and encoding DVDs under Linux. I wanted to type up a few notes on some stuff I mentioned during the meeting. Short version: Use Handbrake (available on Linux, Mac … Continue reading
Filed under Multimedia, Programming, Matroska, MPlayer
wrapper script for disc_id
I wrote a little wrapper script for disc_id tonight, available here. disc_id is a little binary that ships with libdvdread, or at least, it used to in older versions. I use disc_id to give me a unique 32-character string of … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia, Programming
web media frontend
I have always wanted to tweak my HTPC frontend quite a lot to add extra functionality, but the entry barrier to learning a GUI language has been way too high for me. I’ve had success though, in patching MythFrontend to … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Gentoo, Multimedia, MythTV, Programming
javascript rest api using prototype
JavaScript seems to be in my future, it looks like. Plus a bunch of Warner Archive awesome cartoons on DVD, but I’ll get into that later. I’ve been doing web design for a long time, but it hasn’t really gotten … Continue reading
Filed under Programming
my prototype cheat sheets: forms
I was having problems this morning with Prototype, in getting serialized forms, so I went back to this little cheat sheet that I wrote up once and updated it and figured out what the problem was. I uploaded my cheat … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
