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. Continue reading
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
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? Continue reading
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)
I’ve been using TorrentFlux for a while on a headless server with great success for the past few years. Recently I’ve had some issues with it, mainly due to the fact that on some larger torrents, it seems to hang, seeding many torrents seems to eat a ton of memory, and CPU load.
So after some looking around, I found rtorrent. A full text based torrent client. Continue reading
I am not liking SuSe Studio so much anymore. The main goal for using it was to easily and quickly build xen VMs that I could deploy on my xen server at home. Continue reading
I am liking SuSe Studio quite a bit.
I’ve made a Xen server barebones OS on top of which to run xen virtual machines, and built it in SuSe Studio. Very painless process, which produces a very small download, which requires zero installation. Well not zero installation, since on initial run there needs to be some unassisted setup done by the system. Continue reading