Afterdawn via Juha
Updating your computer is almost complete – Restart Now?
“Now, to get rid of it:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installationsYou can configure how often it will nag you (I re-configured it for 720 minutes, which means I’ll be asked twice on a work day), or completely disable it. [This] setting is only loaded when Windows starts, so a reboot is needed.”
D. Turini via C.A. Mackay via Juha
Suomenkielinen asetus näyttäisi olevan (‘Paikallinen tietokone’ -käytäntö / Tietokoneasetukset / Hallintamallit / Windowsin osat / Windows Update /) Uusi kehote ajoitetun asennuksen uudelleenkäynnistyksen yhteydessä. Mutta! Sen Ominaisuuksissa sanotaan näin:
“Jos tila on Poissa käytöstä tai Ei määritetty, oletusaikaväli on 10 minuuttia.”
Toisin sanoen sen poistaminen käytöstä ei ole mahdollista, vaan sitä pystyy vain viivyttämään. Huomasin tämän käytännössä viimeisimpien päivitysten asennuttua, kun tuo “Tietokoneen päivitys on melkein valmis. Sinun on käynnistettävä tietokone uudelleen, jotta päivitykset tulevat käyttöön. Haluatko käynnistää tietokoneen uudelleen heti?” -ilmoitus hyppäsi silmille heti sen käytöstäpoistamisesta huolimatta.
Mac. Nobody gives a shit.
Open Source Templates
How To: Download only certain files within a torrent (Azureus)
SVT1 Rapport: US Threatens Sweden With Trade Sanctions
“An english subbed version of the news cast about the MPAA and US government threatening the swedish government with trade sanctions if www.thepiratebay.org is not shut down.”
YouTube via Juha
Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference
The Inquirer via Juha
MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video transcoder
“MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features. […]
Requirements
- Windows Operating System or Linux + Wine
- A fast CPU if you want a reasonable speed when transcoding videos”
MediaCoder via Juha
Gerd Knorr’s webcam: input parameter
Finding out what the input parameter (which defaults to composite1, which didn’t work for my Creative Labs’ Webcam NX) should be was a little hard, so I’ll make a note of it for myself here: Urs Kradofler’s “WebCam under Linux” page says…
[…] do not use the option “input = composite1” as given in the man pages; enter the command v4lctl list to view a list of possibilities; in my case [the command input = Webcam was] ok.”
If you have multiple cameras, you can specify the device for v4lctl to look at by using the -c parameter (e.g. v4lctl -c /dev/video1 list).
For my Creative Lab’s NX the input parameter was to be ZC301-2 and, for my Philips Toucam II, Camera.
Remove Duplicate Messages: Prefere to delete…
I’ve been using the Remove Duplicate Messages extension a couple of weeks now. It’s working well apart from the fact that the Prefs dialog doesn’t seem to be working, or at least for the “Prefere to delete…” selection doesn’t get saved. I prefer the “unread” choice, so I dug inside the extension’s code and found out the line needed in Thunderbird’s prefs.js file:
user_pref("extensions.removeduplicates.prefereddelete", 1);
Just stick it in there, among other extensions’ settings. Make sure TB is not running when manually editing prefs.js, otherwise any changes will be overwritten when TB is shut down.