Posts Tagged ‘drive’
Wuala: Another Cloud Storage Service
July 6th, 2010 | Author: VooDooStevie
I recently was introduced to Wuala which is another cloud storage service. The free storage starts of with 1GB with the ability to expand up to 3GB if you have friends sign up for the service. Much like Dropbox you need a client to use it. The client creates a networked drive on whatever platform you are using (I use windows at work and Linux at home so this is a nifty feature that I can take advantage of). With the networked drive it’s easy to access your files however you cannot upload to the root folder you have to upload into Documents, Music, Photos, or Videos only. You can create new folders if you wish for files that don’t quite fit into that generalized category.
Posted in Reviews | 
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Thing Done Before Windows Boot Up
June 30th, 2010 | Author: VooDooStevie
I read an article recently about what a guy did before a Windows machine finished booting up and it made me nostalgic for the old 8088 days. His posting can be seen here. But read on for the full article and my nostalgic counterpart.
Posted in Humor |
Tags: ascii art, ascii codes, beep, bps, coffee mugs, counterpart, disc, dos manual, dos prompt, drive, e mail, Eclipse, kicker, linux machine, Looked, microwave ovens, mile, Monday, need, one of the lucky ones, outage, Pidgin, power, power outage, recollection, Runner, slow boot, Software, store, Talked, tilda, time, wait, wait time, windows boot, windows machine, word documents, work |
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Day 13 – Rip, Transcode, Warzone!
August 13th, 2009 | Author: VooDooStevie
We last left off with ripping a DVD using dvd::rip. It really took it about an hour to rip it from the CD to my Hard drive. But it only rips the files into VOB format. In order to play on another machine or for me to burn the movie onto a DVD I need it to be encoded into an AVI file, so I transcoded the video within dvd::rip. After about 2 hours of doing that, I had a perfect 1.5GB AVI (it was a 2 1/2 hour movie so it was expected).
The issue I had with ripping movies in the past is the sound didn’t sync with the video. It was like watching an old Kung Fu movie but more annoying for the audio. You”d hear a bang and then see it 5 seconds later. Not good.
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu |
Tags: artillery, AVI, avi file, battery technologies, blip, co worker, day, drive, Dvd, file, format, game, game play, Hard, hard drive, home computer, hour, issue, kung fu, machine, massive research, movie, order, P
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Day One – Install and add things
August 1st, 2009 | Author: VooDooStevie
Ok let’s begin a by saying I am using an Acer Aspire 5720Z for this whole experiment. It has a built in webcam and microphone as a little extra on the unit.
I completely backed up all my important Windows based things (in case I return to windows) and all my important documents (podcasts, itunes settings, pictures, and other stuff) onto my external harddrive.
Took a DEEP breath and put the installation CD into my CD drive and rebooted the machine.
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu |
Tags: Acer, Air, Amarok, Aspire, breath, cd drive, decent player, deep breath, desktop, Digsby, download, drive, experiment, external harddrive, flash player, google, gPodder, hard drive, hurry, input name, installation cd, instant messaging, iPod, kernel, linux version, machine, microphone, Nano, partition, Pidgin, playback, Player, setup, time, Tweetdeck, version, webcam, Windows, Wine |
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