By epb on November 15, 2010
I got my CherryPad America toward the end of October. It’s a low-end tablet, comparable to the ones you can now find at WalMart and KMart. I bought mine primarily to function as an e-reader, and quickly found that it had impressive video codec support and could do more than I was expecting out of [...]
Posted in linux | Tagged android, CherryPad
By epb on October 27, 2010
The CherryPad America is a tablet running Android I plan to write up a review for later, however a quick note for anyone who might be searching: Yes, if you do a factory restore, the default language will be Chinese. You can change it to English by pressing the change-language button in the lower-right hand [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged linux, tablets
By epb on September 25, 2010
Was directed to a nifty tutorial regarding Python’s optparse, and how to use it to quickly create handy command-line utilities. Saves you the trouble of ever having to parse the command line. Check it out on IBM’s website: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-pythocli/ Summary taken from the article: Summary: If you work in IT, as a UNIX® Sysadmin, a [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged outside_tutorials, python
By epb on September 25, 2010
Ran across a problem where I had a bunch of emails in Outlook’s msg format that could not be read (due to lack of Outlook) on someone’s computer. Did some digging and found msgconvert.pl. Did the job handily with only a few quirks. Snag it at http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/
Posted in Problems | Tagged perl, problem, solved
By epb on September 11, 2010
Heh, this Saturday I spent nearly 7 hours playing Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale and I have to say that I love it. Beyond a fairly enjoyable cast of characters you can choose just about every aspect of your shop from what is stocked to the wallpaper, flooring and carpeting used. As for inventory, you [...]
Posted in Games
By epb on July 18, 2010
I really don’t have a shorter description for this. I was working on a personal project the other day and realized that this might be a nifty function. Basically, you know all those snippets to make cropped thumbnails (squares and the like), and how most of them either center or crop to the top of [...]
Posted in php | Tagged gd, images, php
By epb on June 23, 2010
I have a sizable collection of music, so sizable in fact that I can’t store the full collection on any portal media. Since I only use Windows to play video games, I use Rhythmbox to manage my music and found myself in need of a way to sync to a USB thumbdrive. Now, the issue [...]
Posted in linux | Tagged linux, mp3, music
By epb on May 31, 2010
An odd quest perhaps: but adding album art to an MP3 (in ID3 tags) is readily doable with the KTaglib extension for PHP. Once you have it, you can use a script like this to add artwork to an MP3: $mp3 = new KTaglib_MPEG_File(’2.mp3′); $idv2 = $mp3->getID3v2Tag(true); $album = new KTaglib_ID3v2_AttachedPictureFrame(); $album->setType(KTaglib_ID3v2_AttachedPictureFrame::FrontCover); $album->setPicture(‘testalbum.jpg’); $album->setMimeType(‘image/jpeg’); $idv2->addFrame($album); [...]
Posted in php | Tagged metadata, mp3, php
By epb on May 21, 2010
This week I was working on a computer that was having problems with it’s hard drive. I could get it to start once, and then it would fail to start up again. As you can imagine, the drive had some bad sectors, but the people I was fixing this for could not afford another $60 [...]
Posted in Problems | Tagged computer problems, hard drive
By epb on May 6, 2010
I made a pretty normal trip to jlist (an online shop selling all manner of things Japanese) and for some reason thought: I bet I could change this store layout with Greasemonkey! With a couple of hours of fiddling, I had managed to create a script that took their HTML and mangled it to my [...]
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