Making a video from a set of frames can be done with transcode as follows. Disclaimer: this is mainly a reminder to myself, based on these instructions for making animations from frames, with some extra's.
First make a file with the filenames of the individual frames (in the right order …
I had some difficulties in Ubuntu with installing a new spell check dictionary for my mail client Thunderbird. My native language is Dutch (Nederlands) and writing Dutch with a English spell checker active is not very interesting. I tried the methods explained at http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html …
On friday 23 june 2006 I decided to upgrade my kubuntu powered laptop (Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi) from Breezy (aka 5.10) to Dapper Drake (aka 6.06). Here is a list (under construction) of my experiences with the upgrade so far. The merits/blames are not all addressed to (k …
Thanks to Planet Ubuntu NL I found a blog entry by Pascal de Bruijn with a hack to extract fonts from a PDF, using pdftops and FontForge. When I have some time, I definitely should try this.
Quick note to self on how to get the current working directory of in a Python script, like you have pwd (print working directory) on a Linux/Unix command line:
import os
print os.getcwd()
I'm a happy Amarok user, using it for playing/browsing/querying my music collection, but this weekend I encountered a problem: Amarok didn't start anymore. When I launched Amarok (version 1.3.1, that is) from the command line I got the following error:
$> amarok
amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK …The logs of my (drupal powered) website show a lot of referer spam. Some time ago I had this statistics page which contained a listing of the last 10 pages my site's visitors came from (aka referers). Soon spambots found out and spammed this list. I made the list invisible …
Ough, my blog just got infected with Blog.Worm.
Apparently it spreads just by visiting http://www.moox.nl/blogworm/. Any browser will do (even lynx, links or internet explorer)
This weekend I encountered a weird problem during programming C extension modules for Python. For some obscure reason floats from my C extension modules were formatted with a comma as separater (e.g. 123,456) instead of with the more familiar point (e.g. 123.456). Obviously some locale related …
A weird outcome of a halftoning experiment. Not what I would call a good halftone, but it's nice on itself.
