GalacticSlacker HQ havoc@harrisdev.com RSS feed from GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5 en RE-RSS spewer Twiki is down http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/_0KnnZueKss/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1446#1446 ]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 10:37:28 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1446#1446 Replacing the audio track on a MP4 video http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/R_olst7CRoU/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1445#1445 for i in `find path/to/files/ -name "*mp4"`; do ffmpeg -i $i -i `dirname $i`/`basename $i mp4`mp3 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 `dirname $i`/`basename $i ".mp4"`X.mp4; done

I'll elucidate later.
]]> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:13:50 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1445#1445 dynamic compression on audio files with sox http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/B_m8hlHhZLc/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1444#1444
This is being done on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so I had to install the MP3 tools for SOX:
sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-mp3

Then, I processed all of the MP3 files in the directory:

for i in `find . -name "*mp3"`; do sox "$i" /tmp/temp.wav rate 44100 compand 0.1,0.3 -60,-60,-30,-15,-20,-12,-4,-8,-2,-7 -2; lame -h /tmp/temp.wav $i; rm /tmp/temp.wav; done

The resulting sound quality is very good. I'm considering encoding these audio files back over the complementary video files they go with.
]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:18:11 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1444#1444 [quote] Pens�es, Pascal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/HAvQVHq_03k/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1443#1443 - Pens�es, Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- Pens�es, Pascal
]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:34:24 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1443#1443 [quote] Pascal on specialization http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/y73Wwqj-rCQ/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1442#1442
"Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former."
- Pensees, Pascal


I may adopt this as my "life quote" or whatever you want to call it.
]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:24:31 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1442#1442 [quote] Trying Christianity http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/bTE5SWjrh1w/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1441#1441
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World
]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:05:16 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1441#1441 [Quote] History http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/SxAYoAeI3vc/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1440#1440
Because God rules the world by his providence, history really is His story. To misconstrue the historical record, therefore, is to falsify the works of God. Further, love for our fellow men, especially for our brothers and sisters in the faith, demands that we not bear false witness against them-regardless of when they lived. Consciously misrepresenting history is a violation of this law of love and should be regarded as a sin to be avoided.
- Tom Ascol, Founders Journal, Baptist History Out of Focus
]]> Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:44:50 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1440#1440 I love my job http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/WWMurt3nuMY/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1439#1439 ]]> Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:18:49 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1439#1439 New job http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/53_18as5xVg/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1438#1438 ]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:04:22 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1438#1438 Justice http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/c7Ovj1ETH3I/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1437#1437 ]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:01:53 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1437#1437 CNN Breaking News -- Debt Ceiling http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/9ZxOWBmla0Q/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1436#1436
CNN Breaking News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's canceling July 4 recess for Senate to deal with the debt ceiling crisis.

Lawmakers must raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2. Otherwise, the Treasury will run out of money to pay the nation's bills in full and on time.

Republicans have demanded that any deal to raise the debt ceiling include deep spending cuts, but they have been reluctant to consider measures favored by Democrats that would increase revenue.


Well, hold on a sec, "Lawmakers must raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2. Otherwise, the Treasury will run out of money to pay the nation's bills in full and on time." Otherwise, the Treasury will run out of money....

It's a Debt Ceiling... the Treasury is already out of money!
]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:03:42 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1436#1436 Rain! 27.Jun.2011 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/GAMmLBbFQCs/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1435#1435


















It was a very special occasion -- I even shot in RAW.
]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:56:29 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1435#1435 Update: CNN Breaking News -- 30 million BBL oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/ZySc-NAg6a8/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1434#1434
It should be either dissolved, or rolled over into a strictly military reserve.

State (economic) interventionism is always (or at least has historically always proven to be) a bad idea.

Keynesian economics is awful.
]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:43:29 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1434#1434 CNN Breaking News -- 30 million BBL oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/E3ODlYtn-Wg/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1433#1433
CNN Breaking News

The U.S. and International Energy Agency will release 60 million barrels of oil from reserves to stablize world energy markets.

The U.S. will release 30 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the rest will come from the International Energy Agency, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today. The oil will be released in the next 30 days to offset the disruption in the oil supply caused by unrest in the Middle East.


I'm pretty sure this is a bad idea. It was a bad idea when pressure was put on Bush, and it's a bad idea now. Not only is it a poor "Band-Aid" solution, it's a bad and short-sighted political maneuver. 30 million barrels of oil is not enough to make an impact on the market, and it has to be replaced in the SPR at market cost, meaning that the tax payers have to pay for that oil twice. This kind of intervention in the market is bad policy, bad economics and bad politics.
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:13:13 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1433#1433 Important discussions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/iPeOilpA2zk/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1432#1432
1) Your doctrine is all kinds of messed up, and I don't agree with you on nearly as many things as you think I do (if any).

2) The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is a key, Christian doctrine, and it is clearly supported by the text of the Bible (even though the word "Trinity" never appears in the text of the Bible).

Note: The word "Bible" never appears in the Bible, either.
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:09:15 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1432#1432 A favorite image http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/ZrJ_I_h06_4/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1431#1431
]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:21:35 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1431#1431 ATF Busted? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/z5jPp4ibEJQ/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1430#1430
Two senior federal law enforcement sources say acting ATF director Kenneth Melson is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, amid the ongoing controversy over the "Fast and Furious" operation in which straw buyers were allowed to illegally purchase large numbers of weapons, some of which ended up in the hands of cartels in Mexico.
]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:51:36 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1430#1430 Middle School Gym http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/AFGzU0tndFs/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1429#1429


May 19, 2011
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]]> Fri, 20 May 2011 16:22:52 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1429#1429 rediscovered http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/4N54vsqEbMk/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1428#1428
]]> Sun, 15 May 2011 04:17:11 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1428#1428 Multiverse -- a layman's explanation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Galacticslacker/~3/f0-z0P2Za1w/re2.5 http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1427#1427 every possible question, which means that in the end it can't answer any questions.

Time Traveling The Multiverse by "WhatYouOughtToKnow"

boohya!
]]> Mon, 09 May 2011 15:36:15 MST havoc GalacticSlacker HQ http://galacticslacker.com/perl-bin/re2.5?message=1427#1427