This time when we went to Pondicherry on the year end, we took two cameras – I took my Rebel XTi and my wife the LX3. While uploading our photos to Flickr, we had a problem. We wanted to merge our photo sets, but because of the different photo naming conventions of the two [...]
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Using the official Flickr uploadr on Ubuntu
July 6th, 2009 · Comments · tech
I normally use jUploader for uploading photos to Flickr from my Ubuntu Jaunty box. However, since I got the amazing Panasonic DMC-LX3 compact camera, I have been uploading HD videos too to Flickr. Now none of the FOSS tools that I know of support video right now. Since I insist on uploading photos in the [...]
Tags:flickr·linux·ubuntu·wine·winetricks
Removing encryption from (legitimate!) PDF files on Ubuntu
January 10th, 2009 · Comments · tech
Many service providers have started encrypting the statements that they send you. While at some level, it does add some amount of security when the path to your inbox is not very secure. However, it is sometimes a major pain when you want to archive your emails. This is because every provider has decided on [...]
Using ffmpeg on Ubuntu to convert DV videos for video sharing websites
September 21st, 2008 · Comments · General
To begin with, this is the problem that I had. I had recorded a short clip using my Panasonic NV-GS330 camcorder. I had to upload it to Vimeo, my video sharing website of choice.
From the camcorder to the computer
Importing the video from the camcorder to the laptop was not much of a problem. I plugged [...]
Tags:ffmpeg·kino·linux·panasonic·tech·ubuntu·video·video editing·vimeo
Why I returned my Mac
August 5th, 2008 · Comments · General
I realize the title of this post is a bit provocative, but I could not think of any other way to put it.
Some weeks back, I got a new Mac Book Pro at work. This was my first exposure to Apple’s computer products, and after the initial few moments of aah-ooh’s wore off, I started [...]
Giving up on bcm43xx in Gutsy beta
October 8th, 2007 · Comments · General
The only major issue that I have felt in my use of Ubuntu till date(and to be fair, this is not ubuntu specific) is the problems I keep having with wireless setup. I can live with any of it’s other flaws.
In earlier releases, the problem had been WPA support. The default install didn’t have wpa_supplicant, [...]
BSD or GPL in the ideal world?
October 7th, 2007 · Comments · General
This Slashdot comment probably summarizes the difference of intent between and BSD and GPL as succinctly as one can. Every person who is unclear about the licence to use in his code, or has been a blind follower (“Should be the right one, because everyone seems to be using it”), should keep this at heart.
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Moved over to Gutsy
October 6th, 2007 · Comments · General
Just upgraded my notebook to Gutsy a couple of days back. It is still in beta and would be released on 18th October.
I recently changed my desktop over to Gnome from KDE. I have been a Kubuntu/KDE user for years, but the look and feel of KDE has remained tacky for a while now while [...]
