Articles about software

1. Generate random passwords

   One way of making hard to guess passwords is to take random data and encode it with base64 to make …

2. vid2mkv

   My digital camera can also produce movies, like most camera’s these days. It saves them in AVI format, with …

3. vid2mp4

   Videos with H.264 video and AAC sound im MP4 containers seem to strike a very good size performance balance …

4. genbackup

   This shell-script makes a backup (with the tar program) of the directory from which it is called, with all its …

5. foto4lb

   Photos from modern digital cameras are generally so large these days that you have to shrink them to use them …

6. make-mp3

   After writing the make-flac python script, I adapted a copy to use LAME to generate variable bitrate MP3 files instead …

7. gitdates

   In answer to this question on stackechange, I wrote gitdates.py (available from github). If it is called from a …

8. dicom2png

   Note

   It is probably better to use dicom2jpg from the same repository. It produces much smaller files, and the quality …

9. git-check-all

   This scripts looks for all directories in the users’ home directory that are managed by the git revision control system …

10. make-flac

    In this day and age I want to have my music collection available on my computer. Lugging around all my …