Monthly Archives: March 2009

Encoding a motion jpg video produced by a canon A430 to xvid

mencoder, motion jpeg, xvid, canon a430 Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on March 31, 2009, at 19:03 | No comments

My Window Maker “desktop” configuration

During the ten years of my love-hate relationship with X-Windows, I've often tried and enjoyed using full-fledged desktop environment (starting with KDE and later sometimes GNOME too), but, given time, I always gravitate back to WindowMaker. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 30, 2009, at 13:03 | 3 comments

Mounting a MediaWiki installation with WikipediaFS for FUSE

Another one of those I-wish-I-had-blogged-about-this moments: I wanted to bulk-edit some pages in my Dutch Hardwood Wiki and I knew I had previously done some scripting using a FUSE filesystem for MediaWiki. However, I didn't remember the name of the filesystem I had used before. Searching for "mediawiki fuse" didn't help in any way. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 27, 2009, at 14:03 | No comments

Extracting the MP3 stream from a Flash Video (flv) file

I wanted to convert an Flash Video (flv) file from YouTube to MP3. The first tip I found essentially streamed the original file into a different file: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 10, 2009, at 21:03 | 2 comments

MediaWiki problems with MySQL VARBINARY padding

I have been wanting to protect a certain page on my Dutch 15Monkeys wiki for weeks. I could install the ReCaptcha extension already (the best Captcha there is), but it's just that one page that's being spammed. So far, I've been unsuccessful in regaining my Sysop right for that wiki. I need these rights if I'm going to protect these pages. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on March 09, 2009, at 14:03 | 2 comments