Arjan van de Ven Interview

As I mentioned in my last post, O'Reilly interviewed him and it's a quite interesting read. I only disagree on one point. He says ...Read more »

Registration Hell

I know this is an old hat: You have to register for everything. Then came OpenID to the rescue. Only that it's so complicated to actuall...Read more »

Bashrc Tipps

Here's a little article with some tips for making your daily shell life easier which at least I have not seen before. They include savi...Read more »

Quick Transcoding with Mencoder and Xvid

This little script helps you to quickly transcode any content mplayer accepts to an xvid avi file. It copies the audio track and encodes the...Read more »

Upgrade individual packages for Debian-based systems

If you are using Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, etc), you are probably familiar with the apt-get update followed by the apt-ge...Read more »