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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Android Apps to get
50 Best Android Apps: Lifestyle and Productivity App
Some interesting choices which I should look at getting.
Lens selection thoughts
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$1350 on craigslist)
Move from openSuse 11.1 to 11.2
openSUSE BuildService – Virtualization
download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_11.1/
OpenSuse 11.2 Installation Repository
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/
filesystem of suse 11.1 is /dev/sda2
Using LV snapshots to manage multiple versions of an OS
As I was trying to figure out how to copy a LVM volume, I came across this. Interesting way of using LVM snapshots to manage multiple copies of the same OS. Continue reading
David Deangelo : material that helped him build his inner game/build foundation
David admitted to reading about 1000 books… Some of his very favorite material that helped him with his inner game and develop his foundation. Continue reading
Merging multiple avi files into one.
To concatenate multiple files into one, I’ve found this:
http://techtips.chanduonline.com/2006/08/15/how-to-join-multiple-avi-or-mpg-files/
Will test it out tonight
File access speed of file based VM vs physical disk access VM
I am curious to find in my environment how much worse a file based VM is at file access vs one that is based on a physical partition.
File based VMs are much easier to manage and backup, but at what cost? Continue reading
Bash scripts I've found usefull
To convert avi files to mp3s (used this page as reference)
This script converts all the avi files in a folder to mp3s.
for file in .; do for filename in *.avi; do mplayer -dumpaudio "$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
Sorting/planning out my NLP learning
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)