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avidemux compile or I just wanted to rotate some video…
Ubuntu 9.10... avidemux is crashing everytime I try to run the rotate filter with a partial frame range. So I'm trying to compile it from source to see if I can get it running. What they don't tell you in the online install instructions is you have to compile both the...
Default Ubuntu 9.10 Empathy Chat Client doesn’t support MSN Video ATM
Googled and found this Empathy FAQ Points to Ubuntu Personal Package Archive with an Empathy package which includes MSN support here ==> https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa/ However I am getting a "503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle...
Sweet Home 3D
Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn't using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a...
Make sure Google Analytics is seeing all your site
I get between about 100 to (almost) 200 visits a day to this site or so Google Analytics tells me. Recently I blogged about adding non-wordpress parts of your site to the Wordpress tab navigation. And then it hit me... Google Analytics isn't seeing anything about my...
Upgrades the wrong way… Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10
If you have even a small modicum of knowledge in IT you know the first rule of change management is "Before you do anything make sure you have a good backup". Well I've been using Ubuntu 9.04 since it's release and today the update manager gave me the option to...
Java on Chromium Browser Ubuntu 9.04
Note: This works on Ubuntu 10.10 also This worked for me: # you may need to install the sun/oracle java first me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre # if you have only just installed then locate won't work use find instead me@mybox:~$ find /usr/lib/jvm -name...