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Finding the Offending Directories | FreedomPenguin
Sometimes you really don’t want to back up certain things on a computer. I wrote this article to show how I diagnose when too much is being backed up.
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Applying patches?
You know me, I love using bash. for f in ~/Documents/jbr_patches/*diff ; do \ echo $f; patch -p1 < $f || exit 1; \ sleep 1 ; done Right.
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Did you know about e4defrag?
I have never used either BleachBit or e4defrag, but I’m looking forward to trying them out.
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Finding Recent Files | FreedomPenguin
Here starts my new series of articles on making backups on the command-line. The heart of the process is the “find” program.
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2015-09-27 Eclipe Bloodmoon
Took these with my Pentax D40, 300mm F3 lens, on a tripod, of course. This was an interesting experiment with to see what noise levels for my CCD are like for 3200ISO and above. I actually could not appreciate those pictures. I think most or all of the pictures in this gallery are 1600ISO, 1…
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The Difference Between Sophistry & Philosophy
Originally posted on Ethical Realism: Many people confuse “sophistry” with “philosophy.” They think that philosophers are arrogant charlatans who foolishly think they know something. However, that description better fits those we now call “sophists.” What is sophistry? And what is philosophy? Socrates considered philosophy to be a force of good in opposition to sophistry. I…
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Adjusting video contrast, brightness, saturation, and color balance with FFMPEG
Originally posted on Computer Geekery: I spent most of today researching how to adjust various video settings with FFMPEG. Last night I shot video of a jazz singer in a fairly dark club. Even though I used a low-lux setting on the camera (Sony HDR-CX260) that compensated for some of the darkness, I was still…
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