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batch renaming using awk and bash

Mass renam­ing of files using awk and bash

All the google apps DNS settings in one place

All the Google Apps DNS set­tings in one place.

Using SRT subtitle files on Popcorn hour

I was hav­ing lit­tle trou­ble get­ting .SRT file work­ing on Pop corn hour A-110. After some googling, I came across this page: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1060708 To enable SRT files sup­port you need the fol­low­ing steps. 1. Make sure the SRT file­name and the video name match (Except for the exten­sions obvi­ously) 2. Make sure they are in the […]

BBC Box

From Gwyd http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8193518.stm “I think Subhi has been fur­ther than the BBC box this year…” LOL Share on Facebook

Pictures processing workflow

This blog post is designed as reference/bookmark for myself, but I hope it helps some­one too. I nor­mally sort pic­tures I have taken every so often, usu­ally when the flash card is full. So they are usu­ally taken over a period of time from dif­fer­ent dates/times etc. So here is my process of han­dling  these pictures. […]

Toshiba Customer Support sucks

Why do com­pa­nies make it so dif­fi­cult to com­mu­ni­cate between the cus­tomer and the per­son actu­ally respon­si­ble for solv­ing the prob­lem. This only pro­motes poor qual­ity and ser­vice deliv­ery, as there are so many peo­ple in the chain the cus­tomer will usu­ally get fed up try­ing to reach the per­son and grudg­ingly accept “That’s all […]

Robot Chef!

Would you trust a robot chef to make you food? That’s what they have in Japan, a robot to make ramen. I bet it won’t be as tasty as the ramen I had in Ginza It’s still cool to watch See here Share on Facebook