James Emmrich

For computers, I love nothing more than a tidy desktop. Something about being able to enjoy a nice wallpaper and have lots of area to put temporary files while I am working on “the project of the moment.” However, Gnome likes to place all these “handy” icons on the desktop that invade my cleanliness. And [...]

As a Linux user, I guess you come to expect a certain amount of FREEDOM. And I think when you get a taste of it, you only want more, and more until you are at the point of being considered spoiled I guess ha! Well I have a Windows Mobile (pocket pc) cell phone. It’s [...]

Over the past couple of years I have needed to convert audio and video files from one format/container to another. Here I hope to archive all the useful commands that I use to get the job done. .mkv to divx I found a cool little script from HowForge.com that uses mencoder for conversion. #!/bin/sh INPUT=$1 [...]