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Where’d I Go?

So as you may, or maybe not, have noticed. I was off the air for a few days…. almost a week… The short story was, I didn’t pay my bills on time…. and if that were the only reason I wouldn’t be writing this… so… The rest of the story is my service provider ( […]

A bit more about avisplit

So I’ve been experimenting a bit more with the avisplit utility that I talked about in my last posting. I’ve been trying to transfer over an old ( 15-20 years ) TV War Movie video that I had originally recorded on VHS tape. It’s called “Life Line to Victory” and while it isn’t a bad […]

Transcode – an amazing little avi tool

( Linux )

A friend of mine recently had a problem with a couple of avi files he had of a movie of his. The movie was actually in two parts and he wanted it combined. Plus, he also had two subtitle files to the movie and was wondering if I could embed them into the finished avi […]

What is ipmasq and Why Should I Care?

( Linux )

So I mentioned yesterday that when I fwent to write my article about “fglrx” that I ran into another/new problem. That problem was that I could no longer log into the Internet, nor could I even access other computers on my home network. It was as if the network card became unplugged – only it […]

What the “fglrx” happened?!

So once again I have discovered that Linux is no where near ready for the average user… Don’t get me wrong, it is much more powerful/flexible/fun/easy to use that any version of Windows that I’ve kicked the tires on. It’s just that free software means that not everyone works on what everyone else needs! A […]

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