Author: Jani
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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ReactOS: Building A Free Windows XP Compatible OS
“The ReactOS® project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.”ReactOS via Juha
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Adressi vapaiden tiedostomuotojen käytöstä
“Me allekirjoittaneet käytämme vapaita tiedostomuotoja ja haluamme vapaat tiedostomuodot myös valtionhallinnon tuottaman tiedon tallennusmuodoiksi. Yleisten vapaiden tiedostomuotojen käyttö parantaa tiedon saatavuutta nyt ja tulevaisuudessa sekä on tasa-arvoista kaikille kansalaisille.
Tämä adressi luovutetaan eduskunnalle, presidentille ja muille tärkeille päättäjille syksyllä 2006.”
Tavallaan ironista, että kun yritin allekirjoittaa tuota Firefoxissa, sain virheilmoituksen, ja IE:tä käyttäen allekirjoittaminen onnistui heti.
