Monthly Archives December 2006

I’m a port committer!

This is the best Xmas gift I’ve ever get
I’ve got my foot wet last morning. Really feels good. And there’s alot to learn… Setting up tinderbox is only the start…
With the commit bit, I’m feeling more responsable. Keep up the good work, boy!

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Samsung NV10

Well it’s Xmas time and time for gift. I’ve got a Samsung NV10 for my wife as Xmas gift. Though I think I’ll use it more
This little toy got 10M pixels on a 1/1.8″ Type CCD. The CCD and the Schneider lens is what attact my most. And I can have full control […]

IPod, again

Well, although I have no problem using IPod on my FreeBSD box, I got another question: my wife want to manager her IPod on her company notebook, which runs Windows and not allowed to install iTunes.
After some digging on the Internet, I found Yet another iPod manager. It runs on Max, Windows and Linux, and […]

adding subtitle to video

Well this might be my last post about using IPod on FreeBSD, cause the last I concerned, for us non-English users only, how to “hard-encode” the subtitle to video files, is resolved
Most of the DVD rip tools will generate 2 files: an avi file, mostly xvid encoded, and a .srt file, which holds […]

converting video to IPod

Well I’ve talked about how to use IPod on FreeBSD, I haven’t talked about how to convert the videos to formats that IPod can understand, because, well, I struggled several days with that.
So here’s a short note about how to convert video to IPod on FreeBSD, as of 12/10/2006.
The credits goes to these web pages:

Apple […]

remove adsense

Well this is boring…. And I decide to remove it to get a clear page

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the many ".serverauth.####" files in home directory

Where the “####” here means some digital. I’ve seen lots of these and delete them from time to time. And today I found this blog entry that explains why.
That blog is about running X on some Linux distros and unfortunately it happens on FreeBSD too.
So I took the solution the auth offerd. However, as both […]

quit w3m without confirmation

Like many console people I’ve set w3m as my man pager, i.e,
alias man=’TERM=xterm LC_ALL= w3mman’
when w3m is available.
However, there’s one thing bother me alot: whenever I quit the man page (from console, not within Emacs), w3m asks if I really want to quit. This is borthing.
So I finially turns myself to the document today. And […]

google adsense

Well I’ve seen lots of google adsense around, and put one on my blog. Let’s see if this can offer my Internet access fee

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