Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Ubuntu 12.04

Much has been written about the advent of Ubuntu 12.04. The much-maligned Unity interface is actually quite usable, finally. The Acer Aspire Timeline 1810T wireless card (an Intel 5100 AGN) did not work after resuming from a suspend-to-RAM. But a simple upgrade from kernel version 3.2 to 3.3.0 seems to have solved the problem. The problem is actually with the ethernet, not wireless, interface that crashes networking after overloading with quadrillions of packets. Reloading the ethernet driver appears to resolve the problem.

9 Timeless 3 Column Layout Techniques

  • #left { float:left; width:150px; margin:0; padding:0; background:url("corner.gif") top right no-repeat; font-size:80%; }
  • #right { float:right; width:150px; margin:0; padding:0; background:url("corner.gif") top right no-repeat; font-size:80%; }
  • #middle { margin:0 150px; background:yellow; font-size:80%; }
  • Clean, simple 3-column CSS layout.

    Worldwide mobile connections to hit 6 billion this month

    The GSMA Wednesday announced that the worldwide mobile connections are about to hit 6 billion, quickly catching up to the world’s 7 billion people.  The report notes that the Asia Pacific reason is the biggest force behind the growth, with nearly half of all mobile connections coming from this area.  Accordingly, China alone has 940 million total connections, exceeding that of Europe and the US combined.

    We appear to be well on track for a 100% penetration rate worldwide within 2-3 years.

    AtomicParsley - set video metadata

    AtomicParsley is a lightweight command line program for reading, parsing and setting metadata into MPEG-4 files supporting these styles of metadata:

    • iTunes-style metadata into .mp4, .m4a, .m4p, .m4v, .m4b files
    • 3gp-style assets (3GPP TS 26.444 version 6.4.0 Release 6 specification conforming) in 3GPP, 3GPP2, MobileMP4 & derivatives
    • ISO copyright notices at movie & track level for MPEG-4 & derivative files
    • uuid private user extension text & file embedding for MPEG-4 & derivative files