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In my the first part of my Microsoft Zune review, I mentioned that frustration with the autoplaylist feature of the Zune jukebox software had driven me [...]
Update: MKVOfDeath now has a new name: XenonMKV – and a new site to match. It’s also ready for use and is open-source under the General Public License. Please post any questions, compliments, comments or flames in the XenonMKV Forum. Comments are now closed on this post. Thanks to everyone who’s helped out so far!
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Also tagged gotsent, h.264, hdtv, movies, x264, xbox360I recently had a request from Phil to rip a particular track to MP3 from a band’s MySpace page. While most music on MySpace is shoddily encoded at 96Kbps, sometimes it’s the only place available online to listen to a particular song. To save yourself from the agony of calling up a Web browser, going [...]
Also tagged emo, howto, music, myspace, weasel, wiresharkJust checked out the Eclipse SVN site and apparently the issue with dashes in new PHP filenames has been resolved. I upgraded my work copy to the latest nightly build and things seem to be going well. (The October 1st integration build might be better stability-wise, but I’ve had good luck with the nightly builds.)
For [...]
Let’s say you have a shared web hosting account on a random cheap provider, and the only way to access the MySQL server is to either connect from an SSH command line or use phpMyAdmin. While both of these options are okay, in some circumstances it’s not exactly wise to have a phpMyAdmin installation publically [...]
Also tagged development, howto, mysql, network, putty, sqlyogI know a lot of people in Southwestern Ontario have Rogers for their broadband ISP, and sometimes it’s extremely useful to be able to diagnose problems with your cable modem signal if you’ve been experiencing intermittent connection issues. Usually the phone support technicians won’t do anything based on this information, since they have the ability [...]
Also tagged hardware, repairThanks to Dave for this pointer:
The default VNC application on OS X really bites, so if you want to access your Mac remotely, get a copy of Vine Server.
For viewing the result on a PC, install UltraVNC and use the following connection settings for best results. (This assumes you’re on a local area network [...]
I’m incredibly glad I didn’t release the first version of mountMerge last night. Apparently Java’s “delete” command does not respect symbolic links under Windows. As a result, my entire collection of files – over 800GB worth – was unceremoniously nuked.
I’ve spent the past day trying to recover what I can, since the delete operation [...]
One of my “most desired features” for my Windows box is something that I’ve referred to as a merged mountpoint. Last night I made a significant amount of progress towards implementing this feature on my own. Here’s some background information:
Most users have one hard drive in your system, usually C:\. This drive will probably have [...]
As a second part to the tutorial series (following the DVD Decrypter tutorial), I present the DVD Shrink resizing tutorial for resizing retail discs.
Again, it’s a Wink Flash demo and it’s totally up to you what you do with the information. Hopefully this should help you get a better idea of the concepts behind [...]