Archive for November, 2009

Monday, November 30th, 2009

In your prayers, thank god for this, pray for this person, or that thing, or some whatever. Someone in an accident and didn’t actually die? Well, good goshins, let’s thank omnipotent and omniscient Invisible Sky Daddy for that…though don’t you think that if your deity had any compassion (or even existed), there wouldn’t have been […]

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

sudo hddtemp /dev/sd?  So I won’t forget (again). Still don’t know WTF is wrong with the Sensors ACPI temperature display; it’s apparently not using lm-sensors or even sensors, which (AFAIK) is specified by the script, so I have no idea where it’s getting the information, but it doesn’t make any sense for it to show […]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

I’d be able to retain this information for more than the time it takes to actually process the video, and wouldn’t have to look it up every goddamned time. ffmpeg -i <filename.mpg> -deinterlace -ar 44100 -r 25 -qmin 3 -qmax 6 <filename.flv>

Friday, November 20th, 2009

So I basically rule today. First, I fixed my Hello Kitty phone theme so that I didn’t have to separately select the main theme as well as the SMS theme; they’re now all in one, and I changed the images for lockscreen and SMS (might redo the SMS to move HK up just a bit, […]

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

If you’re going to create even a very cute custom icon set for an application that the vast majority use on Linux, then for the love of whatever you consider holy, don’t make the goddamned thing on Windows and just chuck it up on a server without an explanation because Windows doesn’t specify folder and […]

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

After updating to Karmic, I hadn’t got around to doing things like making my storage partitions mount on boot, or setting up GIMP so I can use the Wacom stylus with pressure sensitivity, but don’t have to use the crappy mouse (reserving the option to use said crappy mouse if I so choose). Nothing serious, […]

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

If I forget one more time… When I upgrade one computer and not the other, or the phone, and get a denied connection with SSH, it’s because I forgot (again) to delete the known_hosts in ~/.ssh. So I can find this: hosts SSH sftp connection denied connect upgrade known_hosts