… 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.
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 Read more
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 the circuit in the former. The modification allows the camera to be switched to a long exposure mode via a switch. The switch can be triggered over a serial port, so I added a USB to serial adaptor and a USB hub (both from ebay) to the unit to allow control from a computer and have just one cable coming from the unit. Read more
I’m clearing out the attic and have some old computer magazines that some of you might be interested in. Free to a good home if you can collect from me, otherwise they go to recycling.
The first batch contains titles like Personal Computer News and Your Computer from around 1981-1983. The second batch are mainly Amiga Shopper (and the odd CU Amiga and Amiga Format) from around 1994.
UPDATE: All gone! Read more
I got the PST out again recently. As we approach Solar Maximum it would be a shame not to have a look every now and then. Read more
Recently a small piece of the door seal on our washer dryer came out in the wash. It was small but enough to mean water on the kitchen floor so it needed replacing.
The solution seemed simple. Order a replacement seal. Fitting it however was a problem. Read more
A collection of some of the main pages describing the long exposure and amp mods for the SPC900 webcam. http://home.zonnet.nl/m.m.j.meijer/D_I_Y/spc900nc.htm http://www.yesyes.info/index.php/diy/philips-spc900-webcam-lx-and-ampoff-mod/ http://stargazerslounge.com/astro-lounge/114129-pictures-taken-during-some-lx-mono-mods.html http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Members%5FArea/Projects/spc880conversion.pdf Now just to read through them all, order the bits I need, and do the mod. Simples. Read more
When creating python unit tests you need to create a method in a unittest class. The problem however is when you don’t know until the code is running what these tests will be. In my particular case I need to run a series of tests against a number of Solaris packages. But I won’t know what the packages will be in advance. Read more
The simple way to search for a string in a list is just to use ‘if string in list’. eg: Read more
>>> list = ['a cat', 'a dog', 'a yacht']
>>> string = 'a cat'
>>>if string in list:
... print 'found a cat!'
... found a cat!