Author name: albertw

Solaris

Helping you manage you Solaris 11 support updates

… or Overcoming Your Fear of Repositories as the OTN Garage puts it! My colleagues Glynn Foster, Pete Dennis and I have put three articles on Oracle Tech Network that we hope will help you keep your Solaris 11 systems up to date. Here’s why these documents may be of interest to you administering Soalris 11.

computing

Converting files for ipad with ffmpeg

Works for me: ffmpeg -i INPUT -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 160k  -vcodec libx264 -vpre iPod640 -f mp4 -strict experimental -threads 0 OUTPUT For other recipies, well, starting points anyway, see https://develop.participatoryculture.org/index.php/ConversionMatrix

Astronomy, Photography

Hacking a webcam for long exposure astrophotography

I finally got around to hacking a Philips SPC 900 to enable it to take long exposure images suitable for astrophotography. The modifications are fairly well known. The approach I took is a mixture of the http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Members%5FArea/Projects/spc880conversion.pdf from Bolton Astronomical Society and http://www.yesyes.info/index.php/diy/philips-spc900-webcam-lx-and-ampoff-mod/ . The circuit between both approaches is roughly the same, I followed

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