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Month: March 2018

  • Scripts to extract audio from video clips or convert other audio formats to mp3

    This is a great thing because I can put all these MP3 clips onto my phone and play this music wherever I go. https://bytefreaks.net/gnulinux/bash/ffmpeg-extract-audio-from-mkv-to-mp3 find . -type f -name “*.mkv” -exec bash -c ‘FILE=”$1″; ffmpeg -i “${FILE}” -vn -c:a libmp3lame -y “${FILE%.mkv}.mp3”;’ _ ‘{}’ ; The script goes through the current folder and all subfolders…

  • Why I hate the Google Nexus 5X

    Well when I got this thing I thought it was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, a Google Nexus phone, with stock standard Android, a lot of available updates from Google, great spec and performance etc. Great hardware, well made quality product. Such a shame about the software though. Unfortunately over time…

  • New bits for “old” computers [9]

    Unfortunately I have not attended to any of the tasks in my last post yet because some aerial photos I was working on last week for mapping have to be redone. This time I have just closed off all web browsers and other applications in mainpc and used that one for Gimp so its full…

  • New bits for “old” computers [8]

    After a week or two with the new keyboard layout it has bedded in well and is now pretty much the default as I have been using serverpc to do a lot of time consuming and resource intensive Gimp stuff and are freed from a lot of thumb twiddling as I wait for it to…

  • Multiple keyboards [2]

    This is what the arrangement of keyboards now looks like with my computers. Basically on the left you have the double keyboard slide with two keyboards on slides under the desk, and then a third keyboard above. Over to the right you can see a fourth keyboard on top, and then below it two KVM…

  • Photography notes 03/2018

    I used to write on this blog a lot about my digital cameras and photography. Back then I took a lot more photos and even had many thousands of them published online. However in recent years my focus for photography as a hobby has waned and I took down virtually all of my online photos,…

  • Multiple keyboards etc

    My last post mentioned keyboard layout arrangements at my desk. I have now completed building a double keyboard slide (two sliding shelves directly on top of each other) the purpose of which is easy access to two different keyboards/mice for working with two computers simultaneously. This job took all day on Wednesday to complete and…

  • ReinstallMyPC: Symlinking /home/patrick/Maps to /mnt/share/mainpc/maps

    This week I started using serverpc to store some Qgis maps resources for NZ Rail Maps. Because everything has to work across network and local access (directly from mainpc) it means mainpc has to have a symlink created as mentioned in the title. Using the command to do this: ln -s /home/patrick/Maps /mnt/share/mainpc/maps whereby maps…

  • New bits for “old” computers [7]

    The serverpc is now being used to store additional mapping resources, specifically aerial photos as the amount of space these take up is significant and at times has filled up a lot of disk space on mainpc. I am working on a new layout of my keyboards so that I can use both computers at…