Free and Open Source blogger with an attitude
I found this funny video clip from Ubuntu Video website. the clip is about an Automatic Cat Feeder powered by Ubuntu Linux.
Funny how this guy solve his problems by utilising excess hardware in this manner, creative indeed.
This inspires me to come up with simpler solution when I come accross such problem like this. Sometimes , the toughest problem does not always require an uber-1337 solution.
[tags]ubuntu, linux, diy, opensource, cat, cats, automatic, automation[/tags]
There’s differences between knowing the Path, and walking the Path
There’s definitely a lot of differences between the two. Walking the Path is much harder, takes more determination and hardship.
…but how can I walk the Path, If I don’t know one?
I know some people love to store their favorite movies or video clips in their phone (especially nokia phones). Here’s a quick how to, to convert movies and video clips to a format suitable for use in mobile phone.
For this thing to work, we will be using the multipurpose encoder/decoder – ffmpeg.
Convert from MPG to 3GP
ffmpeg -i video_clip.mpg -s qcif -vcodec h263 -acodec mp3 -ac 1 -ar 8000 -ab 32 -y clip.3gp
Convert from AVI to 3GP
ffmpeg -i video_clip.avi-s qcif -vcodec h263 -acodec mp3 -ac 1 -ar 8000 -r 25 -ab 32 -y clip.3gp
Convert from 3GP to AVI
ffmpeg -i clip.3gp -f avi -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 file.avi
With these method you wont need to spend a dime on expensive proprietary encoder anymore to transfer your favorite music files into your phone.
It should be noted that, the ffmpeg package from the default installation in Ubuntu are pretty useless for practical purposes. Please read this to enable 3gp encoding in Ubuntu : Enable mp3 and amr support in ffmpeg ( Ubuntu )
[tags]ubuntu, linux, nokia, 3gp, ffmpeg, debian, windows media player, media player, open source, encoding, ripping[/tags]
I don’t know what got into her, but it’s seems almost like her life long dream to work overseas, especially in Dubai.
She often mentions that how exciting it is if she were to work over there, with a fat salary, a new and foreign environment, and a chance to visit the word’s largest shopping mall, the Dubai Mall! And I know first hand that she loves to spend her time shopping!
However she did give up some thought on where she would live if she’s going to work in Dubai. I was concern about that too. So I did some check up on properties in Dubai, to see what kind of apartment or place that I could get her. I prefer to get her something that is nice, located in a safe neighborhood, and easily reachable.
After hours of searching the internet, I finally came across Dubai Marina properties, a website that lets you find real estate properties in Dubai. It is easy to use, and it has a lot of property to choose from.
Personally, I’ve browsed few apartments that suited my budget using the system, and I find it very interesting. I haven’t told her yet about this website and I guess you’re the one who are first to know about Dubai Marina properties.
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Latest news from BBC that I read, It seems OLPC (one-laptop per child) XO laptop will be available to the general public to purchase after 2008.
This was confirmed by the chairman of OLPC group (Nicholas Negroponte) that they have considered commercial schemes to distribute XO Laptops around the world. It isn’t clear yet how much does an OLPC cost to the general public, but they are considering a “buy 2 get 1” scheme, perhaps as a source of donating or funding the project.
Personally, I’m eager to test one of the machine out myself, I envy ditesh and jayakumar because they had the chance to try out the machine in person. :p
[tags]olpc, linux, laptop, fedora, $100 laptop[/tags]
I hate receiving email spams, who doesn’t right? The volume of email spams that I receive hasn’t decrease over the years.
The emails that I receive range from the from the usually annoying sex enhancing drug, sex toys, to a variant of nigerian scam email which ask you for your help to deposit some amount of money.
Most of these emails are stoppable by the keyword filters and bayessian-based spam blocker which scans the frequency of words inside the spammers email. The filter will try to find the keywords commonly associated with scam and spam emails and able to put the spammers email directly into the trash without it ever reaching your inbox.
However, a new breed of spam emails emerged recenty, these emails dono not use text to relay their messages, but instead uses images which can easily bypass keyword-based spam filters which is common in email clients.
However, BorderWare’s has come out with a solution, “Intercept Image Analysis”, which takes the spam fighting methods further by inspecting over 30 attributes about each image, to adapt, learn and defeat new image spam campaigns.
Intercept Image analysis is specifically designed stop image spam , and is compatible with any email clients that you use. Try it now, and send those email spams to >/dev/null
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