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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Converting MKV to MPG on Mac OS X
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009I have found a very useful blog post that someone has written to show how to effectively use mkv2vob on Mac OS X. I have tried this with Snow Leopard and it works great. It requires :
- CrossOver
- Mac OS X
- Windows Script Host 5.6
http://www.mediafire.com/?nkgtwtzzwzj
Visual Basic 6 Runtime SP6
Available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nkgtwtzzwzj
mkv2vob
Available here:
http://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=1
Simply create a new bottle in CrossOver that simulates the Win XP os environment. Then install Windows Script Host 5.6 ,Visual Basic 6 Runtime SP6 and mkv2vob to that bottle as unsupported software.
Now when running mkv2vob it should work and converting to MPG should be quick and easy.
That new mac smell
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Ohh you know the smell I’m talking about. It’s that sweet high quality plastic-y-but-not-cheap-plastic smell. Even if your mac is not made out of plastic. It will still smell amazing, you can smell the quality. The detail; perfection. The only thing is it does not last forever and you know it as soon as you get your new pride and joy out the box. You know the truth that the chemical smell will not last forever. And indeed as you carefully slide your new mac out of it’s lovingly wrapped cover you know that in a few months time it’s sweet cent will be gone forever. It’s not the box, oh no. Press your beak up against the intricitly designed polystyrene box padding and inhale. You will only find traces of the nectar but the piece de resitance. Take a close whiff of the machine it’s self and your taste/smell(?) buds will be delighted.
It’s not as much of a pile of bullshit as it sounds. Honestly. A quick search for “that new mac smell” returns pages of forums. People are querying the unique smell and wanting more. If only there were a way of finding out exacty the source then I would sell it in little boxes or tubs or even on scratch ‘n sniff. People have blogged about it ” what gives it that new smell? “, why does it smell so good”. One website even siad that it is simar to but more addctive than the new car smell. People have said it’s bad for you! What’s not bad for you these days
Speak to any mac user - they will know what you are talking about. It’s well known among mac users: new mac smells amazing.
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VMWare conflict with Nmap
Monday, April 20th, 2009Today when I went to check what ports were open on my router with Nmap it gave me a message saying:
Failed to open ethernet interface (vmnet8). A possible cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html).
This confused me at first but then realised that it does not like the virtual network interface that is installed for VMWare. I am currently operating under Mac OS X 10.5.6.
The only solution I thought up to solve this was to delete the interface. This worked, but now means that any OS I install onto a Virtual Machine may not have any connectivity to the internet. Ohwell!
Just run this command to delete network interfaces. (hardware and virtual)
sudo ifconfig vmnet8 remove
(you will be propted to put in your password because of the “sudo” command.) Nmap now works with no conflicts with Virtual Machines or VMWare Fusion.
Don’t know what to write!
Monday, April 6th, 2009Hey,
Been getting the fancy pictures you see above working. Pretty simple really. There used to be a plugin for this in an older version of WordPress but it’s no longer available. So it was implemented the old-school way, rolling the sleeves up and getting elbow deep in some PHP hackery of wordpress. That’s what’s so brilliant about WP: something not working right? ; can’t find a plugin: just edit the html directly and put in your own PHP code to create that feature just the way you want it.
Anyway, I used Photoshop to put the frame round a picture, copying the frame from the ‘kubrickheader.jpg‘ image which is the standard banner for this theme. Made quite a few of these, just putting random photos in, whatever makes it look good. Then I changed the code in header.php (wp-content/themes/default/) so that every time the page is loaded a random number is generated (between given values) and stored. The banners are all saved banner1.jpg, banner2 . . etc so I just made it that rather than load the default image, load the bannerx.jpg, where ‘x’ is the value of the random number we generated and saved.
The desired effect is that every time the page is re-loaded a different number is generated and appended onto the call to the banner draw, and thus a different pretty picture every time.
Hello world!
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
The Ballad Of Chasey Lain by Bloodhound Gang
