Before my current job, I worked at Health Sciences Centre, a large hospital. It was quasi-government, the running joke was that you’d have to kill someone to get fired. I’ve since come to realize that’s not true. Update: They seemed to have found someone to take the new position. I worked with all kinds of [...]
For a while now I’ve been wondering how to convert an .AVI file into a VCD, having tried once or twice but ending up stuck. Recently, a friend sent me a show he taped from TV, which prompted me to try again. I succeeded, and here’s how I did it. The basic steps in converting [...]
One of the comments to an older article pointed out Feed On Feeds as a good RSS aggregator, and I finally got around to trying it. I have to admit, it’s pretty much exactly what I was looking for. The main screen lists all your feeds, with a count of how many new articles were [...]
I’ve recently started playing with PIC microcontrollers at home, and have found some more of vi’s features saving me time. I can’t believe I haven’t used this before, the ability to run makefiles from within an editor session, and have vi interpret the output. Like programming in C, Makefiles can be used to automate the [...]
As often as I use CVS, I can never remember how to start a new project from an existing code base. Invariably, I look in the man pages and on the web, and read through several pages to get what I want. Here is the way to do it. The goal here is to take [...]
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