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Combining separate m2v and wav into a single mpg
on Oct 16, 2009 in mp2 Windows mplayer When you export MPEG2-DVD in Adobe Premiere, you might wind up with separate m2v and wav files instead of one nice tidy mpeg file that you can upload to an online video sharing site. Here's a freeware way to combine those files: Download the latest...
Companies and Products that Suck, 2009 Edition
on Oct 15, 2009 in Bad Business Practices Indiana banking healthcare Fifth Third - We signed the papers to purchase a house in August. Our original closing date was September 30. Fifth Third said that was too soon, so we graciously pushed back to October 13, giving them 50 full days, 5 more days than the longest home...
Installing PEAR on Windows
on Oct 15, 2009 in Windows php pear go-pear.bat is no longer included with the PHP Windows installer, so you have to do things manually. Download the go-pear file locally and run from command line with "php go-pear" (or whatever you named the file). Run the PEAR_ENV registry file gen...
Ruby Gems Behind Proxy
on Oct 14, 2009 in ruby ruby on rails gems Command line switches for Ruby Gems don't seem to work in the latest release. Running the following before you run the gem command on Windows seems to work: SET HTTP_PROXY=http://%USER%:%PASSWORD%@%SERVER%:%PORT%...
Bebo White, America's first webmaster, to return to Rose-Hulman on Thursday
on Sep 15, 2009 in rose-hulman informatics curriculum web science science Bebo White, one of the pioneers of the Wide World Web, will be making a special presentation on Thursday. Sept. 17, at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology that examines Web science as a new, multi-disciplinary research effort. The event, from 4:20-5:...
NYT thinks Facebook is imitating Twitter
on Sep 14, 2009 in facebook twitter The NYT ran an article yesterday claiming that Facebook is adding "Twitter-like" features. I would argue the opposite: Facebook had micro-blogging first, the NYT just missed out on it since Facebook was restricted to the college crowd at the time. Fa...

