nihil is a WordPress theme which began as a brach of mariginari, but with entirely different focus. The theme is accompanied by a set of plugins, most of which haven’t changed much from their mariginari roots. (Note that the versioning of the plugins doesn’t relate to mariginari versioning, i.e. version 0 here is still newer than versions >9000 of corresponding mariginari plugins.)

The code is released under Creative Commons’ CC0 1.0 Universal license. Beware: this is always a work in progress, so it might break and/or burn your house down.

Download: nihil-2010-05-20_10-00.zip (84 kB)
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In a re-iteration of my previous experiment with making noise, I’ve now generated 12 seconds of Full HD noise for your viewing pleasure. Note that the audio is quite loud (or at least appears as such), so adjust your system volume accordingly.

Again I used ImageMagick to generate the frames and Audacity for the soundtrack, but instead of ppmtompeg I used ffmpeg for combining the pictures into a video, for better compression offered by modern codecs.

First I cast this imagemagick spell:
$ time for i in `seq -f %04.0f 1 300`; do convert -size 1920x1080 \
xc: +noise Random -blur 1x1 -fx intensity -normalize -depth 8 ${i}.png; done
Completing this step took about 20 minutes in my current setup (an Athlon II X2 250). (Note that for just 300 frames there one excess 0 worth of padding in the seq parameter, because I initially did a longer sequence of lower res frames. Four or more are needed if you go beyond 1000 frames.)

Next I put the images together using ffmpeg. I compressed the video with x264:
$ ffmpeg -y -i %04d.png -vcodec libx264 -b 1800k -r 30 test.mp4

I then generated 12 seconds of white noise in Audacity, and exported it into a WAV file, which I then compressed using faac:
$ faac -q 300 -o noise12.aac noise12.wav

Finally I muxed the two together, again using ffmpeg:
$ ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -vcodec copy -i noise12.aac -acodec copy hdnoise.mp4

jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp .jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”.jpg”
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp X.jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”X.jpg”
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ man mktemp
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp XXXXXXXXXX.jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”XXXXXXXXXX.jpg”
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp XXXXXXXXXXX.jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”XXXXXXXXXXX.jpg”
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp XXXXXXXXXXXX.jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”XXXXXXXXXXXX.jpg”
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.jpg”
jani@saegusa:Työpöytä$ mktemp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.jpg
mktemp: too few X's in template ”XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.jpg”

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mariginari is a heavily customized version of the My Valentine theme by Quirm.net, accompanied by a set of plugins. The theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License save for the title image, which is an adaptation of Husky-Chibi by Nunzia Catania and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0, and the 1950s television set frame, which is a derivative of a work by John Atherton and licensed CC by-sa 2.0.

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Note that this is always a work in progress, so it might break and/or eat your children.

I was wondering why /usr/local/etc isn’t used for storing local changes to system-wide configuration (which is in /etc/). Even after quickly reading through FHS’s definition for the contents of it, “Host-specific system configuration for local binaries”, I was convinced that the practice of adding local customizations directly to /etc must be flawed.

It was only after re-reading the definition with thought when the emphasis dawned on me: it is used for configuration of local binaries, not for local configuration of binaries.