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AUSkey is not a solution

Fri, 2010-06-25 08:44 — tregeagle

I attempted to use the 'AusKey Secure Identity Data Exchange Thingy' only to find it does not work with GNU/Linux. I emailed them to let them know about their broken system and just recieved this cut&paste response:

The AUSkey solution currently does not support the Linux platform. This is consistent with other ATO systems.  The 'technical information' link on the AUSkey site outlines the operating systems and browsers that are officially supported.

Converting Audio Files; FLAC to MP3

Sat, 2010-05-22 11:37 — tregeagle

Using my little computer which has the cpu capacity of a very stupid weevil I find it quicker to avoid too much GUI.

So, lets get to the point:

Navigate to the directory which contains the offending FLAC files and copy this in:

for file in *.flac; do $(flac -cd "$file" | lame -h - "${file%.flac}.mp3"); done

You'll get an error if you don't have lame or flac installed. So install them and try again. Done. Easy.

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Converting video for mobile phone.

Thu, 2010-03-18 16:48 — tregeagle

Converting a video file for a Nokia mobile.

My lad has an annoying mobile phone that does more than make and receive calls. He wanted to watch the Mighty Boosh on his phone and like a foolish Pa I converted the videos to 3gp for him.


Now they play on his phone. He'll no doubt ask again so here is what I did to convert from avi to 3gp:


The Gimp

Thu, 2010-03-11 11:38 — tregeagle

The Gimp is great graphics editor that I use a lot. I have not become as adept at using it as I once was with Photoshop. So I am starting this thread to keep notes on stuff that I keep forgetting. If you'd like to share please feel free to add any cool gimp plugins or procedures/shortcuts to do cool things.

 

So to kick off here is a link to a great plugin:

http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/

Join the Conversation

Fri, 2010-02-05 11:46 — tregeagle

http://microblog.ourcoffs.org.au

Maybe some of you use Twitter to micro-blog all that overflowing brain blather. Maybe you don't. Either way I have a suggestion, go create an account on our very own local Microblog. We can chat to each other or just share info about stuff that we want to share. It'll be fun.

If you are still not convinced here are some benefits:

  • Can easily set it to auto-forward to your Twitter or Facebook account
  • It is Open and Free
  • It is managed by us, not some billionaires in North America
  • It has a bunch of bananas on it

Click the bunch of bananas and join in the conversation.

Grab stuff with less clicking

Sun, 2010-01-24 18:54 — tregeagle

My studious partner wants to listen to a Latin podcast on her audio player. She has a bit of catch up to do, there are hundred probably thousands of mp3 files to download. Now I know there are all kinds of graphical download plugins and managers I could use but I prefer something a bit quicker and more simple.

New Video Editor

Fri, 2010-01-01 19:08 — tregeagle

There has been some discussion around editing your videos and I'm hopefully reporting an exciting new development for 2010. No not the Christmas hat that appeared on the VLC icon this year....

VideoLAN, the developers of the excellent VLC Media Player are working on a new free video editing package, VideoLAN Movie Creator.

I shall be watching this closely to see how it goes. Cool huh?

Change the default application

Sat, 2009-10-24 08:26 — tregeagle

I just spent more than ten minutes trying to figure out how to change the default audio player on my Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. I think the fault is my brain not Ubuntu. Now if I write this down I may actually remember such a simple procedure....

Open Source - Chiang Mai

Tue, 2009-07-28 19:37 — tregeagle

Riding around Northern Chiang Mai today I passed this:

I woke the owner up, he spoke a little english and said that we open source people should stick together and share the knowledge. He looked a bit sleepy so I let him toddle back to bed.

Windows 7

Fri, 2009-01-09 13:16 — tregeagle

Remember how Windows 95, NT4 and XP featured lots of sky? 

skys the limit
The next version of Windows is starting afresh, forget grass roots, forget the sun baked earth, they are starting deeper down than any other OS...

Try Windows 7:

 
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