Astronomy

Building an Observatory – Part 1

About 10 years ago I decided to build an observatory. I’m finally getting around to doing it. My reasoning for building it has changed down the years. Initially I wanted to build it in order to have a serious imaging and research setup, now I want it for convenience. I want a setup that I […]

Solaris

Helping you manage you Solaris 11 support updates

… or Overcoming Your Fear of Repositories as the OTN Garage puts it! My colleagues Glynn Foster, Pete Dennis and I have put three articles on Oracle Tech Network that we hope will help you keep your Solaris 11 systems up to date. Here’s why these documents may be of interest to you administering Soalris 11.

computing

Converting files for ipad with ffmpeg

Works for me: ffmpeg -i INPUT -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 160k  -vcodec libx264 -vpre iPod640 -f mp4 -strict experimental -threads 0 OUTPUT For other recipies, well, starting points anyway, see https://develop.participatoryculture.org/index.php/ConversionMatrix

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