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How to block Facebook’s like and commenting features *within* Facebook using...
Add these two three lines to AdBlock’s filtering rules: facebook.com##span.UIActionLinks facebook.com##div.commentActions>span facebook.com##li.uiUfiAddComment
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Udev rules to own a dm disk
Just making this big mental/virtual note of how to assign LVM volumes’ ownership: a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-my-volume.rules with the following contents:...
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How to install a ton of -dbg packages for shits and giggles
# dpkg -l | cut -d\ -f 3 | sed 's/^\(.*\)$/apt-get install \1-dbg/g' | sed -n '/aacp/,$p' | bash (This is making a lot of assumptions and it’s generally a bad idea to run arbitrary code you find on the...
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2 gigabytes for Acer Aspire One A0A110?
Finally got me the titanium drill bit I needed to remove the corroded-solid screw that held the last piece of +Acer #Aspire One’s PCB in place. Then spent better part of the day disassembling and...
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PAN over Bluetooth in Ubuntu 12.04 w/Bluez 4 & Blueman
I’m setting up a Bluetooth “Group ad-hoc Network” (GN) between my desktop (say, MAC 00:00:00:00:00:0A) and laptop (MAC 00:00:00:00:00:0B) just to see if I can. Existing documentation’s pretty sparse,...
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Yourls, just Yourls
This is a fork of YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter that does nothing but generate YOURLS for new posts (and new media if opted). I ripped out all the Twitter bits and other stuff I have no use for, because...
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Dump effective Xorg.conf (note to self)
sudo service lightdm stop sudo Xorg -configure :1 sudo service lightdm start
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QJoyPad w/255 keycodes
Here’s QJoyPad as it was on PlayDeb.net today, but with MAXKEY in constants.h changed to 255 to allow for bigger keycodes. qjoypad_4.1.0-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb
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List (dpkg) packages that provide a virtual package
jani@saegusa:~$ grep-available -F Provides -s Package mail-transport-agent Package: postfix Package: dma where mail-transport-agent is an example virtual package. (Via Serverfault).
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KB928416 ei asennu?
Tuli pitkästä aikaa käpisteltyä nyt jo elinkaarensa loppua lähestyvää Windows Xp:tä. Sen päivityksissä oli heti jotain perinteistä häikkää: KB928416:een itsensä assosioiva valinnainen .NET 3.0...
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Example run of regionset
I once bought a DVD from outside my region, partly just to see if I could make it work. Regionset is the commandline tool to change your drive’s region setting, but it’s somewhat exciting to use due to...
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How to prefer official repository packages over GetDeb’s updated versions
Adapted this from yuvilio’s solution to down prioritize a PPA: jani@saegusa:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/getdeb-unprefer Package: * Pin: release o=GetDeb Pin-Priority: 400 On Precise, this lets me...
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More transcoding notes: libvpx
As I wrote at the end of the previous post, the second pass may fail with “Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0″ when auto-alt-ref=1 is used. The VP8...
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Thus Spoke Don Munsil
Two-lobe Lanczos is fine. It’s Lanczos (or any other sinc-based filter) with more than two lobes that gets problematic. However, if you’re going to use 2-lobe Lanczos, you might as well use Catmull-Rom...
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“Core Enabled: 1″ or enabledcores=1 from a 2 core Intel Pentium G2120
For my Intel Pentium G2120, `lshw -class cpu` and `dmidecode -t processor` both claim only one core is enabled on my dual-core Intel Pentium G2120. This is despite ‘All’ being enabled in the UEFI...
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Transcoding note: targeting quality with VP8
In CQ mode, --target-bitrate becomes “target maximum rate”. If requested quality (--cq-level) can be achieved with less (than --target-bitrate) bits, it will be encoded so, but --target-bitrate does...
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Transcoding note: better crop without Avidemux
I came up with a better way to crop the videos: as before, figure out the best deinterlacer (say, yadif) with Avidemux, but then just look up the timecode (say, 123 seconds) for a good reference frame...
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Transcoding notes: VP8 on old noisy grayscale material
Flush the stupid green tint with lutyuv=u=128:v=128. Avconv’s -nr option is there but doesn’t seem to do anything (at least for compressibility, with libavtools 4:0.8.6-0ubuntu0.12.04.1). hqdn3d does...
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ImageMagick: combine multiple PNGs into a multi-layer TIFF
convert frames10/frame001.png frames20/frame001.png frames30/frame001.png -adjoin frames/frame001.tiff
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Shotwell from Yorba’s daily PPA depends on libgee 0.8.2
Shotwell from Yorba’s daily builds PPA cyrrently depends on “libgee-0.8-2 (>=0.8.3) but it is not installable” on Precise. Fundamentally, this is caused by Yorba (by decision) moving to libgee 0.8...
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