Posted on Tue 24 November 2009 in geek • Tagged with climate change, cru, science
A couple of stories recently have gotten me thinking about the process of doing science and how it may change in the coming years. The current approach is to spend time doing your research and once your happy you have a defensible theory you write a paper explaining what you …
Posted on Mon 23 November 2009 in general • Tagged with house, plumbing, rugby
We spend Saturday visiting the big smoke for a birthday party and house warming. For Graeme's birthday we frequented a cordoned off area of an Ausie Sports bar to watch the two Rugby international. England where predictably beaten although managed to hold onto their dignity up until the last twenty …
Posted on Fri 20 November 2009 in geek • Tagged with nc, netcat, patch
Wow, I actually found something that netcat can't do.
--- netcat-openbsd-1.89/netcat.c 2009-11-20 17:44:40.000000000 +0000 +++ netcat-openbsd-1.89.patched/netcat.c 2009-11-20 17:43:35.000000000 +0000 @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ /* Command Line Options */ int Cflag = 0; /* CRLF line-ending */ +int cflag = 0; /* CR line-ending */ int dflag; /* detached …
Posted on Fri 20 November 2009 in geek • Tagged with encode, media, mencoder, mplayer, ps3, rip
There are literally hundreds of scripts and tools for encoding stuff to various compressed video formats. However I was never able to find something that did exactly what I wanted and until recently just did everything from the command line with mencoder. Eventually I got tired of the copy and …
Posted on Thu 19 November 2009 in geek • Tagged with bash, bashrc, screen, session, terminal
GNU Screen is one of the most useful tools in my arsenal. In the days before I used screen I used to make extensive use of Gnome Terminal's multiple tab functionality. I'd have one tab for edit/commit commands, one for running code, others for watching logs and the plethora …