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Unfortunately only in German... but I sure goggle translate will make a cats arse of it...
Internet os sh*tty Things
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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I'd agree with his pov in some respects - but its like anything in technology, it starts off with a good premise and somewhere someone perverts the intended usage and says 'hey, I can use that technology to become more lazy'
I'm using iOT for resource monitoring, married up with weather data to promote ecologically sound holidays on a particular property which markets itself as eco/green - helping customers make good eco choices - some people would call that a perversion, but, the customers actually want to know how much resources they are using. As an added benefit, we can say 'its going to rain this afternoon, here are some indoor type things you can see in the district'
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It fills my head with cotton wool.
This morning I started on a job for a friend: bolting together some of his videos: 25 files, all MP4, all same resolution and audio / video codecs. Can I bolt 'em together to make 5 MP4 files, each around 2 hours? Should be about 1GB per file, since the total input is about 5GB. No problem, done it loads of times.
Off we go with Corel Videostudio X9 ... four hours for the first file, Computer running like a stunned slug on mogadons while it does it's thing. And the output size? 13.2GB for a 1.06GB total input...
Holy carp. 
Brain full of cotton wool finally says "didn't we used to do that with Avidemux?"
15 seconds per file, total size of all five files 5.33GB. Sorted.
I hate having a cold... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: job for a friend: bolting together some of his videos
I'm trying to think of the reasons why someone would have 25 pieces 5 videos with each video being, say, around 2hrs long, and then I stopped and realised it's one of those questions best collectively left alone.
Every time - every, single, time - anyone in the office is sick Sean recommends - nay, prescribes - this[^]. He says it will do wonders for someone sick.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sean recommending a film with oiled up men? Shocking!
veni bibi saltavi
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It's nipple-tassel free though.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I suppose with the onset of winter he at least wears a shirt of some sort these days.
veni bibi saltavi
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Only in the office. He'll be back in the mankini come January 
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Mind bleach. Please pass me the mind bleach.
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It's compilations of half hour-or-so videos bolted together as a "training course". But he figures one 5GB file is a bit much for a single download or even a single viewing (it's ten hours complete, so it's a fair amount to sleep through watch)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Have you tried FFMPEG? It does a great job at stitching videos together and lots of other things if you can figure out the parameters needed!
If you have, how do you compare it to Avidemux?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: if you can figure out the parameters needed
And there is the nub of it's problem! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can't help with the video cruddles, but the cold is best dealt with using, in lieu of Whiskey what you don't do, garlic & ginger.
1 clove of garlic, 3-4 cm of root ginger. Finely chop and steep in about 1l of boiling water for 30 minutes. Add honey [2tb for me] and lemon [1/2 ish] to taste. Drink and feel better.
Slightest sign of sniffles and I make it and it may not keep out the cold but it keeps my grey cells from turning to mush.
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: Corel
I stopped reading right there.
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Quote: Hate leads to suffering.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Hate leads to suffering.
Suffering leads to an Oxymetazoline[^] addiction.
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...never had to actually use them. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is that the one with the half-sized up & down keys?
LUXURY! The winio OSK doesn't even have up & down keys!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ouch. OK, I'll take my teeny tiny up/down keys and stop whining.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Count yourself lucky. I have a 'full' keyboard on my Tosh with separate number pad and proper cursor keys, great for dev work and proper keyboarding. Except...
The up key is FUBAR and so I have to have numlock off so that I can have move the cursor up. 
veni bibi saltavi
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The worst products come from designers, developers, manufacturers, companies, etc. who refuse to eat their own dogfood...
Eating your own dog food - Wikipedia[^]
That's one thing it seems that Steve Jobs definitely had going for him: he used his own products.
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But he didn't put cursor keys on the iPhone.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Herbie Mountjoy wrote: But he didn't put cursor keys on the iPhone.
No, I have them right here. I'm looking at my phone and there they are: cursor keys right there.
Oh, wait, this is an Android phone. I've been using this phone for over and year and I just noticed it's an Android. Well, that's just crazy.
What do you know, Android phones have cursor keys. 
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He didn't put cursor keys on the original Mac, either...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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