Using Matroška containers for videos
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After using ffmpeg2theora and mkvtoolnix for a while (see also the previous installment) to re-encode videos into Theora video …
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genbackup
This shell-script makes a backup (with the tar program) of the directory from which it is called, with all its …
Switching to the vim editor
After having been an Emacs user for a long time, I was starting to grow disenchanted with it around version …
Chickpea and vegetables stew
This is a variation on a recipe that I found in a cookbook, because some of the ingredients in that …
Making my first e-book
Now that I got an EPUB reader, I started looking for a way to make EPUB documents.
In principle, an …
Sony Reader review
A lot of classic books that are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired (as they are supposed …
Filtering a sound recording
Recently I was listening to an MP3 file of a talk about no-till gardening when I noticed that there was …
Automated local backups
These days it is commonplace to have hardware or software RAID1, even in common PCs. In previous machines I’ve …
Updating multiple systems using a pre-built FreeBSD
Recently I updated my workstation to FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1. Since my laptop runs the same OS, I wanted …
Should system backups be compressed?
Every now and then I make backups of my FreeBSD system’s filesystems with the venerable
dumpprogram. This is …