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I think I need to go grocery shopping

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Due to a unexpected server/programming issue, my wunderground node was offline or intermittent for the past few days, normal service has *finally* been restored.

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This took me a few minutes to write after I couldn’t find anything via Google.  Basically what this little script does is take a file as input, takes a snapshot every 100 seconds and arranges them in a 3×30 display.  This can be modified in anyway to change the speed in which shots are take to how they are arranged.  Remember this is open source, do whatever makes you happy.

The script! :

#!/bin/sh
# Filename is first input
file=$1
# Resolution for screenshots is second input
size=$2
#Take snapshots of $file every 100 seconds in image2 format @ $size
ffmpeg -i $file -r 0.01 -f image2 -s $size images%05d.png
# Images 1&2 Always seem to be black so lets remove them
rm -rf images00001.png images00001.png
# Merge the snapshots together with 0 border/margin, tile them 3×30 and save that new image as $file.jpg
montage images000* -geometry +0+0 -tile 3×30 $file.jpg
# Clean up after ourselves
rm -rf images0*

I have the above saved and chmod +x in /usr/bin/thmbcreate, when I have a movie I want to create this storyboard from I run the following command:

thmbcreate myfile.avi 320×240

Enjoy!

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CIDR subnet mask cheat sheet. I keep getting asked about stuff like this so I’ll just start posting it here

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Windows.  While you can QoS and filter and such, nothing will be perfect, there will always be a few seconds of issue if Data & Voice are sharing the same internet connection.  The only thing that truly works is installing a T1 line to customer premise solely for voice.

The reason this is, is that it’s a guaranteed fact that once a week someone in any office using windows will get a virus, that virus will spam or download or whatever as fast as the internet connection will allow. Thus causing havoc on VoIP quality.  *sigh* why does M$ make my life so difficult?

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