Monthly Archive: May 2012

May 26

Converting Videos for iPod Using FFmpeg

The iPod is an awesome little media player that a lot of people use to play music, but many others also use it to play videos. Unfortunately, though, it is fairly fussy about which video formats it accepts. Here’s how to convert videos to allow them to be played on an iPod (and presumably iPad …

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May 11

Patching Up with Git

Often when you work on other people’s code, or work with code in groups, it’s not a good idea to commit to the main repository. If not for any other reason, just so you don’t piss off the person who’s running the project. That definitely doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t work on their code, though. …

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May 04

Stone Soup on Fedora

Dungeon Crawl Console

I’ve already written about Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup here: http://www.robotgoblin.co.uk/blog/2011/07/16/good-old-fashioned-gaming/. It’s a great little game, with much of the same lore and depth as Nethack, but much, much easier! Unfortunately, though, there’s no Fedora repository (and I just checked the request and nobody’s working on it, so there probably won’t be anytime soon) and so …

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May 04

Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity

Cinnamon Screenshot

Ubuntu 12.04, what’s new? Having used Ubuntu since 9.10, I was pretty disappointed with the release of 11.04, as were most of the other people who were already users, to find that Unity was now the default interface. In 11.10, Unity was still default, but had gone through some work to make it a little …

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