How To Install FFmbc on Debian Testing
Every once in a while I decide to install the latest FFmpeg/FFmbc on my machine. Despite all the recent upheaval in the FFmpeg camp, it is still a fabulous open source file transcoding tool. However, I...
View ArticleIn Austria: bob Breitband and the ZTE MF180
I travel a great deal in Europe. Specifically Germany and Austria. I also use the Internet excessively. UK mobile data roaming rates are absurdly expensive. T-Mobile UK sends me a friendly text...
View ArticleBlackmagic Decklink SDI and Linux
Almost a year ago, I invested in a central London based post-production company. At the time, I had dreams of pushing open source software solutions into the professional post-production arena. Things...
View ArticleBlackmagic Media Express Failure
About one month ago I posted that we are now using a Blackmagic Decklink SDI card to capture via SDI in some workflows at The Station. Unfortunately it became clear quite quickly that the Media Express...
View ArticleBought my First Tablet – Asus eee Pad Transformer
Finally I’ve joined the millions and purchased a tablet computer. Of course it was never going to be an iPad, and it didn’t necessarily have to be an Android based machine either. After much research...
View ArticleLife with an Android Tablet One Week On
I’ve had my Asus Transformer tablet for approximately one week now. I have endeavoured to use it fairly constantly and as my sole means of computing. It has worked to varying degrees of success. After...
View ArticleSetting up a Quantum LTO5 Tape Drive on Debian
Recently at The Station we’ve decided to enter into digital data backup and archiving. What, you may ask, don’t we do this already? Well, typically in the past at the end of an edit job, the client has...
View ArticleDual Booting Android 3.2 and Ubuntu 11.04 on an Asus Transformer
UPDATE: This post is now out of date. The process has been enhanced and made much, much easier. See new blog post here. Since purchasing my Asus Transformer tablet, now complete with docking station,...
View ArticleAndroid Tablet Likes and Annoyances – Asus Transformer TF101
I have had my Asus Transformer TF101 Android tablet, with dockable keyboard for a few months now and this article is primarily my findings with regards to trying to using it as my day to day computing...
View ArticleDual Booting Android and Linux on Asus Transformer Part Two
LXDE Desktop on Ubuntu 11.10 on Asus Transformer A few months ago I wrote a post detailing how to dual boot Android 2.3 and Ubuntu 11.04on the Asus Transformer TF101 tablet. This has become by far the...
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