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  • Linux On The Computer Chronicles

    I recently found an old episode of the Computer Chronicles on YouTube which contained a interview with Linus Torvalds!! I rushed to download the entire episode from YouTube and cropped it to just contain the interview. And heres the end product:

  • How To: Create a Website Favicon (Favorite Icon) Using GIMP

    So, you may have noticed that my blog has a cute litte tux the penguin looking at you through a round little window up in the left (or right) corner of your web browser. What you are seeing is known as a “Favicon” (short for Favorite icon) and it’s used to quickly and simply identify…

  • How To: Play Classic MS-DOS Games in Ubuntu Linux

    Ever wanted to play all of those classic MS-DOS games that you have on floppy in your old dusty drawer, but don’t have any retro MS-DOS computer? Don’t worry, you can play (almost) all of them in a emulated MS-DOS environment. And the emulator is called ‘dosbox’, and it’s not only available for Linux, Windows and Mac…

  • How To: Start And Stop ffmpeg Converting At a Specific Time

    Whoaa, Long title there! Anyway, as the title would suggest, I am about to explain to you how to start and stop ffmpeg converting at a specific time. The command variables are very simple -ss (Start time) and -t (Convert as specified amount of time). Sounds tricky? Don’t worry, i’ll explain it to you in…

  • How to: Extract Audio From Video Using ffmpeg

    So, you want to extract some audio from a video ey? Sure! No problem! You can do just that using ffmpeg, here’s the command string. In this example, i’ll extract the whole audio track to a mp3 file, with a 320k bit (constant) rate and 44100hz audio rate (high quality mp3): ffmpeg -i “whatever.format” -vn…