November 2011
1 post
2 tags
Extracting DVD/Bluray without quality loss...
Using MakeMKV (available for Mac and Windows) you can easily extract tracks from encrypted Blurays/DVDs to MKV files. The interesting bit about this software is that no encoding is done. Eg, for DVDs, it preserves the MPEG2 stream intact. You can latter transcode it if you want (for file size reduction) but you will lose quality in the process.
http://www.makemkv.com/download/
MKV is a open/free...
August 2011
2 posts
“When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just...”
– Larry Wall.
Such a wonderful idea.
May 2011
2 posts
“Procrastination is your brain trying to tell you something.”
– Merlin Mann on Back to Work #17
“I believe that in the first place it is an ethical question from the human point...”
– Elias Jaua - Venezuelan vice president.
April 2011
2 posts
“When you see a good mover, look for a better one.”
– Emanuel Lasker
1 tag
March 2011
3 posts
2 tags
Apple Data Center
Dan Benjamin from 5by5 network has devised a new corollary to Godwin’s law of Hitler analogies:
As Apple discussions grow longer, the probability that someone will invoke the North Carolina data center approaches one.
1 tag
Sendai 2011
According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the earthquake’s enormous strength shifted the Earth’s axis by 25 centimeters (9.8 in). This deviation led to a number of small planetary changes, including the length of a day and the tilt of the Earth. The speed of the Earth’s rotation increased, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds due to the...
February 2011
5 posts
“When people ask you when are you getting engaged or married, when are you having...”
– Merlin Mann on the fine 5by5 podcast Back To Work.
CNY lion dance
January 2011
1 post
About Dominion cards prices
Isn’t (some particular card) too powerful/crappy/cheap/expensive?
Generally speaking, no. All the cards have been extensively playtested and there is almost no chance that the designer chose a specific wording or cost without having a good reasoning behind it. Some cards often appear too powerful because the players make them seem that way by focusing heavily on the strategies which...
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
5 posts
Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8350 →
A new landmark in 1080p Home Theater projectors. Especially at that price.
September 2010
12 posts
1 tag
The movies of Clint Eastwood →
The career of this man is quite something.
2 tags
Java Gotcha: type auto-conversion
If you want to have the escape character (0x1b in hex or 27 in decimal) into a string, you might do it this way:
String bold_tag = 0x1b+"|bC";
However, you will end up with the string bold_tag = “27|bC” because Java will auto-convert the char to string (0x1b to 27) before appending it to the rest of the string, which is absolutely not what you want.
To avoid this, you can do the...
2 tags
Class instance variable vs Class variable vs...
class Foo
@a = 123 # Class instance variable (1)
@@a = 456 # Class variable (2)
def foo
p @a # => nil not 123 or 456 - Ordinary instance/object variable (3)
end
end
(3) is an ordinary instance variable (which, not having been initialized, has a value of nil), it belongs to an instance of class Foo.
(2) is a ordinary class variable unique and accessible to...
The Wilderness Downtown →
I got shivers whatching this. Be sure to use an able computer.
For me it only worked with Safari 5. Pure HTML5, no Flash.
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He... →
Fascinating.
The story: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131
August 2010
10 posts
2 tags
Dynamic Select Lists with Ruby on Rails and AJAX | →
Best Rails tutorial showing dynamic form modification with AJAX I’ve come across.
“Le documentaire existe-t-il vraiment? Dès qu’il y a manipulation du réel...”
– Denis Côté (CDC no 645)
Redmine - Project management →
Excellent light, powerful & flexible project management web app. It came a long way since I last checked it out. You may use it for any kind of project where you have a lot of tasks to track.
Redmine - Flexible project management →
Excellent light, powerful & flexible project management web app. It came a long way since I last checked it out. You may use it for any kind of project where you have a lot of tasks to track.
3 tags
Redmine - Flexible project management →
Excellent light, powerful & flexible project management web app. It came a long way since I last checked it out. You may use it for any kind of project where you have a lot of tasks to track.
2 tags
jdclayton.com » Getting Explicit with... →
Great post showing how to check if objects can be safely deleted from the database with Rails.
3 tags
July 2010
8 posts
“Under Singapore law, the government can buy the land at any time, at a...”
– Singapore Prepares to Gobble Up Its Last Village - NYTimes.com
“Je crois sincèrement que la meilleure critique est celle qui est amusante et...”
– Charles Beaudelaire, 1846.
