The bad news are that Linux has been behaving pretty badly when the disk is under heavy load. The good news are that all you need is a kernel upgrade. First, let’s run a simple experiment: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=junkfile bs=1k count=20M Don’t expect anything dramatic to happen right away. It takes half a minute [...]
This is just a few command lines I use every now and then. Just so I have them when I need them. Convert a lot of Flash Video files to DIVX, audio rate 128 kb/sec mp3: for i in *.flv ; do ffmpeg -i “$i” -ab 128k -b 1500k -vcodec mpeg4 -vtag DIVX “${i%.*}.avi” ; [...]
This is how to make an encrypted DVD, which is automatically mounted by Fedora 12 (and others, I suppose) when the DVD is inserted (prompting for the passphrase, of course). The truth is that I don’t use this automatic feature, because only seeing the suggestion to save my passphrase as an option makes me prefer [...]
Many posts in this blog are just things I wanted written down in case I needed them again. This post is about very small things that don’t deserve a post of their own. To be constantly updated. Upload to web with Picasa 2.7 Didn’t work at first. Couldn’t sign in. Try later. Right. The fix, [...]
I really banged my head on this one: I was sure I had set up all registers correctly, and still I got complete garbage at the output. Or, as some investigation showed, everything worked OK, only the PLL didn’t seem to do anything: The VCO was stuck at its lowest possible frequency (which depended on [...]
