Mike DelGaudio

If you need to copy files from your Mac to a Linux Host using SCP, Cyberduck will let you do that, even though SCP is not listed in the protocol list. Just select SFTP from the protocol list, and your regular Linux login credentials (or public key file) and you should get in.

Apparently, when using the DVD Library feature of Windows Media Center, the software would much rather have each DVD in a separate folder, with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subdirectories in that folder. I’ve had precious little success getting Media Center to read ISO format files.

So, if you have an ISO file Can you play it in Windows Media Center? Well, sure, kinda.

It turns out that your little friend 7-Zip, the free, open source archive manager, understands .iso format files as compressed archives.

So, simply open the .iso file in 7-Zip, and extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a folder in your library, and you’re off to the races.
Something like:

+Videos
+---My Movie
+-------- VIDEO_TS
|-------- AUDIO_TS
|-------- folder.jpg

Adding an image, explicitly named “folder.jpg” will add that as the “box cover” to your display in Media Center.

Best of luck.

Install MySQL:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Start:

/etc/init.d/mysql start

Stop:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

Restart:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

Check the status of MySql server:

/etc/init.d/mysql status

Did you know that you can link to a specific page in a PDF document? Here is an expert from the Adobe Knowledge base that explans how:

When you open a PDF file within a web browser, the first page of the PDF file will be shown by default. You can add a string into the HTML link so a PDF file opens and jumps to a specified page or set destination. To use either of these two methods, do the following:

Open a PDF file to a specific page

To target an HTML link to a specific page in a PDF file, add #page=[page number] to the end of the link’s URL.

For example, this HTML tag opens page 4 of a PDF file named myfile.pdf:

<A HREF=”http://www.example.com/myfile.pdf#page=4″>

I’ve become a big fan of Grooveshark for discovering new music. It is a great way to legally find and share music. Interestingly, you can upload your own files into Grooveshark to make them available to everyone, and a portion of the revenues go back to the artist in royalties — however that works.

Each file, or playlist you create can be converted into an embeddable widget for your blog. For example, give the Glitch Mob a listen. :

Vista has odd permissions when editing files, especially if the file is in a location that Windows thinks is sensititve.

If you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission, probably telling you the file is read only, even if the read-only bit is not set. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file.

• Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
• Right click “Notepad” and select “Run as administrator”
• Click “Continue” on the UAC prompt
• Click File -> Open
• Browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
• Change the file filter drop down box from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)” Select “hosts” and click “Open”
• Make the needed changes and close Notepad. Save when prompted.

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I was evaluating Google Chrome this morning, and in between crashes (and boy, do I get a lot of whole browser lockups!) I started messing with the URL bar and found this “secret page”.

No seriously, it says “Shh! This page is secret.” To it seems to give all sorts of stats about timing of events, and consumption of resources by the browser. To see it in your own copy of Chrome, just type “about:stats” in the location bar.

A Christmas From My Memories, originally uploaded by delgaudm.

This is how a lot of HDR images come out, interesting, but pretty cartoon-y and not at all realistic looking.

Living Room, originally uploaded by delgaudm.

I’ve been messing around with trying to get more realistic looking HDR photos. Too many of the ones I have create look like surreal cartoons. Cool, but not what I was looking for. I am actually pretty happy with this one. It pretty accurately reflects what I actually saw.

This is a stack of 5 jpg images, -2 to +2 Merged in Photoshop.

This beta release is a preview of Picasa 2.7, which will bring the Linux version of the application up to speed with the Windows edition. Picasa remains the only Google app which is unavailable for Mac OS X, a fact you can brag about to your Apple-loving friends.

As with previous versions of Picasa on Linux, this release bundles a customized version of the Wine Windows compatibility layer automatically installed inside the app, freeing you from the burden of maintaining a working Wine installation and from worrying about Picasa’s compatibility whenever upstream Wine is installed

Linux.com :: Picasa 2.7 a slick upgrade on Linux