Video info links

(a manageable) collection of links to video codec info and plugins for avisynth.

http://neuron2.net/library/library.html

Leave the poor guy alone…

Just to remind myself that while the government can do a lot of good for people, it can totally screw things up too.

or why all the post 9/11 stuff is a waste of my (taxpayer) money…

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/09/03/miami.airport.evacuation/index.html

The only reason the poor guy is on their list cause they totally, totally, hosed him. Made him sign a false confession, all that stuff that you think only happens in the movies.

http://www.fas.org/butler/index.html

Chatham MA beach panorama – using Hugin

Cape Cod beach panorama

only my second attempt at using Hugin. Done holding the camera so didn’t get enough overlap. Horizon didn’t come out straight.  Also learned that moving people and waves are going to throw it off (yeah, obvious…)

Doxygen Graphviz DOT problem in Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid

The graphviz version graphviz 2.20.2-8 from Ubuntu’s repository seems to have some bug in DOT that causes it to hang.

The latest from http://www.graphviz.org/Download_linux_ubuntu.php is 2.26.3. However there’s maybe a funny in the dependencies as I needed the base and the lib packages graphviz_2.26.3-1_i386.deb & libgraphviz4_2.26.3-1_i386.deb as otherwise tryign to run DOT without the lib package you get:

dot: error while loading shared libraries: libgvc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Makefile debugging article

Makefiles are pure evil.  The concept was nice but working with them is awful. I have wasted more hours/days/weeks chasing down makefile problems because the #@$#*$ idjiots that came up with the idea must have assumed nobody would use more than one makefile and build nothing more complicated than ‘hello world’. I put this right up their with Microsoft’s  Windows Registry as one of the top 10 dumbest implementations of a good idea ever.

Now I feel better…

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/197003338
Debugging Makefiles By John Graham Cumming, February 05, 2007

Linux upstart instead of init.d

intro article

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7033/1/

but it makes it painful to figure out why something doesn’t start as there’s no way I’ve found to debug – i.e. it run the start/stop, etc in their own process and messages seem to get sent to /dev/null…an echo “hello” 1>&2 doesn’t end up in the logs.   Someday I’ll understand why…

another link: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/

Educational materials site

Good place to look for a range of primary/secondary lessons (not just science):

http://www.curriki.org/

From which I found a link to here:

http://phet.colorado.edu/ which has various simulation programs available (java mostly)

Linux GPL terminal program with logging and other features

So far this seems like the best terminal program for Linux:

http://software.jessies.org/terminator/

(there’s a couple of things that show up in google for Terminator)

Though for Windows I still like Secure  CRT:

http://www.vandyke.com/

Linux Ubuntu open link or files as root and more right click stuff

Sometimes it’s easier to stay in the desktop than to futz with command lines.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-open-files-as-root-via-a-right-click/

For doing a right click “search here”:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1376682

Don’t buy Watchguard products

Call it a review, call it opinion, call it the truth…

Overpriced pieces of steaming dung they be…yes, I’m running on a “old” Firebox but I’ve finally hit my limit with them…whole reason we bought was because they promised software upgrades. Soooo when we needed to upgrade to add QoS the answer was “you need to buy new hardware, we don’t support those (2 year old) ones!”

And today I spent lots of time baffled as to why one system all of the sudden lost connectivity outside of the local area. Answer – the firebox “user” count is based on every address it’s ever handed out, and that went over 12 users so it just shuts off any “new” user. WTF it shouldn’t even limit just plain old NAT – I always thought the user limit was something tied to the VPN use.

And their VPN sucks. So no other way to describe it.

So while it all looked good on paper, the reality is they are a bad deal.

So when some says Watchguard just so no.