sending an sms in skype for mac 24. Jun 2011
If you want to send an SMS to an unregistered contact in Skype it may not be completely obvious how to do so. There is no “New SMS…” menu item, instead you have to launch the dial pad by pressing ⌘2 or clicking on the dial pad icon in the main window title bar, enter the phone number and click on the SMS button. Surely feasible after you find out how it works, but not quite intuitive in my eyes.
accelerate lame mp3 conversion 30. Apr 2011
If you have to handle a large number of audio files with the lame mp3 encoder you will want to accelerate the conversion process. Since lame doesn’t natively support multithreading, I decided to use GNU parallel. First I tried the default setting:
ls | parallel lame -V0 {} ../Output/{}
This spawns 9 processes and gave me an acceleration of 1.5x. Then I tried using more processes to see if I could further accelerate the process:
ls | parallel -j 12 lame -V0 {} ../Output/{}
This gave me an acceleration of 1.7x, which is quite nice. I guess you’ll just have to play around to find the “magic value”.
terminological development 26. Apr 2011
The terms “Information Retrieval” and “Data Mining” are now in mainstream use, though for a while I only saw these terms in my job description or in vendor literature (usually next to the word “solution.”) At my employer, we recently hired a “Data Mining” analyst. I don’t know what he does exactly, but he wears a tie to work every day. (Source: Stack Overflow)
caught in a state of nothing 26. Apr 2011
he can’t relax
he can’t fall asleep
he can’t sleep
he can’t wake up
he can’t stay awake
he can’t read
he can’t listen
he can’t focus
he can’t decide
what’s left to do?
download videos from vimeo 17. Apr 2011
Check out this shell script for downloading videos from Vimeo.
