Append “/bimage/” to the beginning of every line in file. cat file | sed -e ‘s/^/\/bimage\//’ > newFile Append end of line to the end of every line in file: cat file | sed -e ‘s/$/ end of file/’ > newFile reference link
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Encode770
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Encode770 is a shell script meant to encode video for Nokia 770. Unfortunately, this is Unix/Linux only; dependencies are mencoder and xterm. Once the script is installed in a file managers menu, Encode770 can be invoked from with a right-click. Great for re-encoding those T.V. shows recorded through MythTV.
Yahoo does a little Windows Mobile
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Yahoo! has announced a revision of it’s Yahoo! Mobile; now Yahoo! Mobile 2.0. In full web 2.0 catch phrase effect; “At its core is the carousel, used to navigate intuitively among the various Yahoo! Go widgets: your own personal channels for email, local info & maps, news, sports, finance, entertainment, weather, Flickr™ photos and search.” [...]
Some ReadyBoost Clarifications/ Testing
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
ReadyBoost is the Windows Vista feature that allows you to use a nonvolatile flash-memory device as virtual memory in order to improve Vista’s performance. While SD, CF, USB drives, and any other flash device will work, 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes are required, and a maximum of [...]
Smartphone Software
Monday, March 5, 2007
Lets just jump right in; I’ve been using a Motorola Q for 3 weeks now, below are the programs I’ve found useful. zaTelnet, a Telnet / SSH / SSH1 / SSH2 client for devices supporting Microsoft Compact Framework 1.0 or 2.0. TCPMP is a free open-source media player for Palm OS-based and Windows CE / [...]
Top Secret: We’re Wiretapping You
Monday, March 5, 2007
The title and blurb below were just too good to pass up, plus they managed to mention the movie Brazil. I’m no conspiracy-nut, quite the opposite; I’m actually crying inside at how bad our federal agencies are at keeping secrets. It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a [...]
Once Again, Closed-source Performs Inadequately
Monday, March 5, 2007
If you own a Zune, then you’re probably underwhelmed by Microsoft’s performance integrating the Zune with its own Media Center software. Ironic, since the whole point, of Microsoft producing it’s own music player, was to integrate hardware with software quickly; something that wasn’t being done quickly enough for Microsoft’s tastes. Yet, Microsoft has failed to [...]
Motorola Q Hacks
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Assorted Motorola Q hacks and tips that I’ve found useful What you’ll need: Only one thing, the free registry tool PHM Registry Editor. Remove Sent Message Confirmation with SMS Select Start and open PHM Registry Editor. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox Enter Inbox, select Menu –> New Key Name the New Key “Settings” Click on “Settings” and [...]
Nuclear Weapons Design Selected
Friday, March 2, 2007
The Bush administration has taken steps towards building the first new nuclear weapon since the end of the Cold War. Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, the government’s two premier nuclear weapons labs have been developing competing designs. Lawrence Livermore’s design is based on a warhead actually tested in the 1980s. Los Alamos’ design is based [...]
Rebuild Laptop Batteries
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Jay’s Technical Talk has a step by step tutorial on how to rebuild your laptop battery. Since it happens to every good laptop, it’s worth knowing how to do this. While a replacement battery costs over $100.00 Li-Ion cells cost under $6. Replacing internal cells is not for the faint of heart; soldering and is [...]