Archive for the ‘ General ’ Category
For the time being, here are the x264 settings I am using to rip my DVDs and gives me the best output: ref=2:me=umh:b-adapt=2:weightb=0:vbv-maxrate=9500:vbv-bufsize=9500:subme=9:trellis=2:psy-rd=1|0.1 I use a CRF20. [Edit]: A very helpful source about x/h264 options: https://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/x264-ffmpeg-mapping[ READ MORE ]
The main documentation about installing Canon CAPT based driver can be found here I followed the instructions given on the page above but it just did not work. The issue there is that the 64bits version of the 2.3 CAPT drivers do not work on Ubuntu 11.10. After struggling several hours trying to build the [ READ MORE ]
Just using the Ubuntu repository works fine for me Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hotot-team/ppa/ubuntu maverick main to your /etc/apt/sources.list Then $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A29228DD41011AE2 $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install hotot[ READ MORE ]
This morning, I received that mail: No additional note. The form just looks like any form. A long boring list of tedious to fill fields. A name that sounds good bureaucracy. And a cheque of 143,52€ to send : … But.. wait a minute! Let’s look at the small bottom lines: This mail is in [ READ MORE ]
Today, I upgraded my WordPress version to 3.0. As usual, this has been a necessary pain. As usual, the automatic upgrade failed. As usual, my qtranslate version was said to be incompatible and I had to tweak it a little (setting it to 3.0 for me). But, far more annoying, after I upgraded WP Super [ READ MORE ]
Hacker News published today a small code snippet by Donald Knuth who exposed his way of programmatically resolve sudoku grids. The snippet uses a strange .w extension and its syntax, although being very close to C, showed some strange particularities. Comments seem to be marked using @<…@>= The source code includes a @c declaration Some [ READ MORE ]
As you know if you had a look to my about page, I am looking for a job in Montpellier. The reason I want to leave my Anjou is that: I am currently working for acer, who bought Packard Bell. It is no secret that there is no future for a former Packard Bell employee [ READ MORE ]
["hip","hip"] (hip hip array!) From Stack Overflow[ READ MORE ]
When I was a child and started to listening to music, I had a little monophonic outdated set. At the time, I remember that the sound that was coming out of the box was a quite indistinct continuous stream. I could make the distinction between two stations but could not name the song or the [ READ MORE ]
Lately, I was complaining I could not find any class-oriented language supporting some kind of inheritance for static properties. Well, I found one. This is a little embarrassing as I was considering myself as having had a good-enough look at python. I was wrong. I had missed this, among a lot of other things. Reading [ READ MORE ]