Where’d I Go?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:47:11 +0000

So as you may, or maybe not, have noticed. I was off the air for a few days…. almost a week… The short story was, I didn’t pay my bills on time…. and if that were the only reason I wouldn’t be writing this… so… The rest of the story is my service provider ( the company [...]

A bit more about avisplit

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:39:58 +0000

So I’ve been experimenting a bit more with the avisplit utility that I talked about in my last posting. I’ve been trying to transfer over an old ( 15-20 years ) TV War Movie video that I had originally recorded on VHS tape. It’s called “Life Line to Victory” and while it isn’t a bad movie, [...]

Transcode – an amazing little avi tool

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:13:24 +0000

A friend of mine recently had a problem with a couple of avi files he had of a movie of his. The movie was actually in two parts and he wanted it combined. Plus, he also had two subtitle files to the movie and was wondering if I could embed them into the finished avi [...]

What is ipmasq and Why Should I Care?

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:00:22 +0000

So I mentioned yesterday that when I fwent to write my article about “fglrx” that I ran into another/new problem. That problem was that I could no longer log into the Internet, nor could I even access other computers on my home network. It was as if the network card became unplugged – only it [...]

What the “fglrx” happened?!

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:49:39 +0000

So once again I have discovered that Linux is no where near ready for the average user… Don’t get me wrong, it is much more powerful/flexible/fun/easy to use that any version of Windows that I’ve kicked the tires on. It’s just that free software means that not everyone works on what everyone else needs! A case [...]