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Some ideas extracted from the Deep inner Game series that I found profound. Read more…

Just came across this:

50 Best Android Apps: Lifestyle and Productivity App

Some interesting choices which I should look at getting.

Just a thought on lens selection:

Zooms

Tokina 12-24 f/4 (3.01 at photozone.de) (around CND$500 used on ebay)

Sigma 24-70 f2.8 (2.67 at photozone.de)  (around CND$500 used on craigslist)
Canon 24-70 f2.8 L (4.24 at photozone.de) (around CND$1300 used on craigslist)

Canon 70-200 f4 IS ( CND$1150 on craigslist)

This would cover  quite a wide range with 3 lenses.

Primes

To get the really large apertures, primes seem to be the only way to go.

Canon 100mm f2.0  (4.19 at photozone) (CND$425 on craigslist)

Canon 50mm f1.4 (4.19 at photozone) (CND$400 on craigslist)

Sigma 30mm f1.4 (3.06 on photozone.de) (1/2 the price of the Canon 35mm f1.4 with arguably better wide performance then the canon, but sigma lens is only for crop bodies) CND$400-500 craigslist
Canon 35mm f1.4 (3.74 at photozone.de) (CND$1350 on craigslist)

openSUSE BuildService – Virtualization
download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_11.1/

OpenSuse 11.2 Installation Repository

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/

filesystem of suse 11.1 is /dev/sda2

As I was trying to figure out how to copy a LVM volume, I came across this. Interesting way of using LVM snapshots to manage multiple copies of the same OS. Read more…

David admitted to reading about 1000 books… Some of his very favorite material that helped him with his inner game and develop his foundation. Read more…

To concatenate multiple files into one, I’ve found this:

http://techtips.chanduonline.com/2006/08/15/how-to-join-multiple-avi-or-mpg-files/

Will test it out tonight

I am curious to find in my environment how much worse a file based VM is at file access vs one that is based on a physical partition.

File based VMs are much easier to manage and backup, but at what cost? Read more…

To convert avi files to mp3s (used this page as reference)

This script converts all the avi files in a folder to mp3s.
for file in .; do for filename in *.avi; do mplayer -dumpaudio "$filename" -dumpfile "$filename".mp3; done; done

Tried the above script, and I kept getting core dumps. Modified it to use ffmpeg instead of mplayer.

for file in .; do for filename in *.avi; do ffmpeg -i "$filename" -ab 128k -vn "${filename%.avi}.mp3"; done; done

To convert mp4 files, I found this at this site. It uses some pretty advanced techniques (at least to me) to pass the output of one program (faad) to another (lame).
I added the -V9 (V9=lowest VBR quality), since I wanted a small file size.

#!/bin/bash
for i in *.m4a; do
echo "Converting: ${i%.m4a}.mp3"
faad -o - "$i" | lame -V9 - "${i%.m4a}.mp3"
done

Having acquired so much NLP material from friends, I need to decide how to take it in, and in what order.

I guess I’ll start with an inventory, and then sort it. (hopefully the inventory will help me realize what I have)