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Maybe you should try Aardvark. Just heard about this today and tried it out. Instead of getting a Google-type plethora of “more-or-less” answers, Aardvark actually sends your questions to people who have declared an interest on whatever happens to be the subject-matter of your question.

Then, within a few minutes you’ll get some emails with suggestions for your dilemma.

I had a specific question relating to how to play a particular radio station on my iPod Touch that I had been grappling with for two weeks.

Within 30 minutes, the problem was solved thanks to Aardvark.

Was this a flash-in-the-pan? Only time will tell but certainly a great start.

I really have no movie editing experience, so when the need to try to splice together four large .avi files arose, I was flummoxed for want of a better word.

However, a little googling quickly provided what looks like a great CLI command to do just that. I got it from this post. To run the command you need to install mencoder (sudo apt-get install mencoder) and then run

mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi input1.avi input2.avi …

Works great although you must make sure that all of the input avi files have the very same fps and resolution. Otherwise it’ll just error out.


What’s that picture?

This is part of a painting called The Hunters by dutch painter Pieter Bruegel from about 1560. I love this guy's work and those of his other family members. They provide a real opportunity to go back in time and participate in life 500 years ago in north-western Europe.

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