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How to wake up early, the geekest way

I was in a country far far away last month. So far that there was no broadband access (yes, this is possible). Anyway… Generally I use my mobile phone as a clock and as an alarm clock. Unfortunately I brake it down just before my night flight. So, to simplify …
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Bad FTP mirrors with fmirror or wget? Use lftp!

Today I’ve found that my websites were not backed up as expected. I was using fmirror (v0.8.4) to get a copy from my host provider to my backup machine. Here is the command line I was using: 1 $ fmirror -kRS -u kevin -p pass -s ftp.website …
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A/V sync problems: VLC better than Mencoder

Today I tried to transcode a bunch of videos using my favorite script. I need to do this because the videos produced with my cheap camera use Mjpeg as video codec and raw-data as audio codec. This result of incredible large files. To share my videos with friends, I transcode …
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