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Audio quality redux
Yet an other example for how simple steps can improve the audio quality considerably. The clip below is taken from this blogpost (which I originally found trough Hacker News). You can find the processed version here, or use the controls below to do a quick A/B comparison of the two. The processing was very simple…
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Power Line Humm Removal With Audacity
As a response to George Starcher’s Removing Power Line Hum from Audio with GarageBand I would like to post a quick tutorial on how to do the same with Audacity:
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Protein Shakes site review
This is something new for me: protein shakes. Medically I can’t offer advice about it (I’m weary about using foreign substances not recommended by a specialist), but the site certainly is has some positive signs: The badges at the bottom are clickable and they go to the respective sites which certify the site The domain…
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Running JRuby on 64 bit Windows
Usually it is as simple as: download, install, run. You can run into problems however if you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit JVMs installed (which is quite often) because it will try to use the 32 bit JVM. You can check which JVM is being used from the command line: jruby –version…
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Using less with syntax highlight
You can use vim as your pager and obtain two benefits: syntax highlight and access to all the advanced commands (like search). You can do this under ubuntu by adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc: alias less=’/usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/macros/less.sh’ Note: You have to have vim installed (which doesn’t come by default, but it is as simple…
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Link love
Here are a couple of close friends’ blogs. They are just starting out writing, but hopefully giving them some link love will encourage them to write even more great content. Without further ado, in no particular order: No Such Host Scienti-XS VTopan
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100 years of style
A very entertaining video in the style of Evolution of Dance: Hattip to refresh.ro.
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Quick’n’dirty Mediawiki file crawler
URL=’http://10.0.0.1′ MIME=’image/jpeg’ bash -c ‘wget -q -O – “$URL/wiki/index.php?title=Special:MIMESearch&mime=$MIME&limit=500&offset=0” | grep -Po “/wiki/images[^”]+” | xargs -n1 -I {} wget “$URL{}”‘ What it does: it uses the “MIME search” functionality on the wiki to locate files of a certain mime type and then xargs+wget each of them. Limitations: A maximum of 500 files are downloaded Downloads…
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Creating a non-MAC bound CentOS 6 machine
I was building VMs to be deployed with Vagrant / Virtualbox for our QAs and discovered that on new instantiations of the machine the networking interface wasn’t coming up. The problem was that Virtualbox was assigning a random MAC address to the NIC (and rightly so, to avoid conflicts). I used the following steps to…
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Levant Digital Marketing review
Levant Digital Marketing is a company which does Search Engine Optimization in the Middle East. They seem to be a very new company (the domain was registered in January of 2011). They are part of “JHG Holding”, but this itself is also only from 2009 (and their site contains minimal content). I didn’t manage to…