Mental Masturbation, Musings, and Methods

I was trying to convert a Quicktime screencast (saved as .mov) to a format my professor could more readily use. For those who don’t know, FFmpeg is an amazing tool with a wide range of applications, including converting between video formats and ripping audio from a video. Anyway, this took me a little to get [...]

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For my discrete math course (CPS 102) this semester, I had to create a space-filling curve for one of my homework assignments. I decided to take this as an opportunity to play with HTML5′s canvas element since I’ve yet to had a legitimate use for it in any programming yet. I think it came out [...]

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Recently, while flying between Durham and New York, I decided to take a picture of the propeller during take off.  I don’t know what prompted to me to do this, but when I pointed my iPhone camera at the propeller out my window I noticed very odd pattens.  I took multiple pictures throughout the flight [...]

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I got an e-mail this morning from someone who saw my post on Twitter about using LDAP on the iPhone here at Duke.  The person said they followed the tutorial but couldn’t quite get it to work.  So I figured it may be useful to post a few quick instructions on setting it up.  As [...]

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I tried this over break but didn’t have enough room on my internal hard drive, but now that I’m back at school downloaded the source for chromium to my external (took up about 10 gig) and built it (about another 5 gig).  And it actually runs!  Its definitely still in development, crashes on all sorts [...]

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